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GMOS Overarching Objectives

Global Mercury Observation System Task HE-02-C1 Tracking Pollutants Nicola Pirrone GMOS Coordinator & GEO Task HE-02 Leader GEO-X and 2014 Ministerial Summit. GMOS Overarching Objectives.

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GMOS Overarching Objectives

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  1. Global Mercury Observation SystemTask HE-02-C1Tracking PollutantsNicola PirroneGMOS Coordinator & GEO Task HE-02 LeaderGEO-X and 2014 Ministerial Summit

  2. GMOS Overarching Objectives • To provide spatially and temporally distributed Hg speciated measurementsaimed to understand the contribution of source regions vs. selected receptor areas with changing emission regime and meteorological conditions. • To validate regional and global scale atmospheric mercury modelling systems able to predict the temporal variations and spatial distributions of ambient concentrations of atmospheric mercury, and Hg fluxes to and from terrestrial and aquatic receptors. • To evaluate and identify source-receptor relationships at country scale and their temporal trends for current and projected scenarios of mercury emissions from anthropogenic and natural sources. • To develop interoperable tools to allow the sharing of observations and models output data produced by GMOS, for the purposes of research and policy development and implementation as well as support the achievement of goals of the Societal Benefit Areas (SBA) established in GEOSS.

  3. Bilateral Cooperative Agreements • U.S. NADP (in progress) • Environment Canada (in progress) • Ev-K2-CNR, Italy & Nepal • SETAC(in progress) • Global ChangeResearchCentre AS CR • CSIRO(in progress) • BalticSeaResearchInstitute(in progress) • Instituteof EnvironmentalEngineering(in progress) • NTNU, Norway • Biodiversity Research Institute, USA • National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan • NOAA (in progress) • UBA, Germany (in progress) • USEPA-ORD • Seychelles Bureau of Standards • University of Washington-Bothell • Cape Grim Science Program and Macquarie University • Taiwan EPA and National Central University • ………more are adding up

  4. The International Framework • GEO Task HE-02 “Tracking Pollutants” - C1 “Global Mercury Observation System” • UNEP Mercury Program – Global Partnership on Atmospheric Mercury Transport and Fate Research (UNEP F&T) • Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollutants (TF HTAP) under the UNECE-LRTAP international conventions. • Regional programs

  5. Key Aspects for GMOS & HE-02 • Should provide spatial distribution of observations with regard to source regions • Should be related to all major compartments • Should provide Hg content in biotic and abiotic matrixes • Should provide direct flux measurements to and from … • Monitoring & analytical methods should be robust and highly reproducible • All sites must use, to the extent possible, the same SOPs • Should use a common QA/QC protocol/system • Should allow data sharing and data real-time acquisition • Robust data policy • POSSIBLY and in the future should be based on low investment and running cost monitoring technologies • ….

  6. The Structure of GMOS • The Ground-basedobservation system • The Marine Observation System • The TroposphericObservation System • + • Marine biota • Lichens and Mosses • Humanexposure

  7. GMOS: ground-based monitoring network

  8. GMOS: Oceanographic campaigns

  9. GMOS Database consistency for measurements of Mercury Species performed during Cruise Campaigns

  10. GMOS Database consistency for Ancillary Data measured during Cruise Campaigns

  11. GMOS: troposperic & regional campaigns Waldhof Slovenia Po valley Mt. Etna

  12. European Tropospheric Mercury Experiment Program (ETMEP)

  13. Global & Regional Scale Atmospheric Modeling

  14. The GMOS-CI

  15. GMOS SDI – Access point www.gmos.eu/sdi

  16. GMOS QA/QC Management System raw data dB SOPs e-logbook QA/QC QA/QC dB

  17. G-DQM Workflow

  18. Log Book service • How to help site operators to strictly follow the GMOS SOPs? • How to take into account the maintenance period?

  19. GMOS as demonstrator of GEOSS benefit supporting discussion and forthcoming implementation of international treaties (i.e. Minamata). • GMOS discover resources in developing countries and address “clean” production GEOSS – Addressing Policies and Conventions Video

  20. More about GMOS at... www.gmos.eu the official GMOS web portal provides all the information concerning the project development, capacity building, support to policy, and major findings, publications, and press releases Thanks…..

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