Day 1 - Thursday, 25 February 2010

08:30

Registration

SESSION 1.1    Chair: Liisa Jalkanen

09:00

Opening Address and Welcome (Mr Jerry Lengoasa, Assistant Secretary-General, WMO)

09:10

GURME Overview (Liisa Jalkanen, WMO) [PPT]

09:30

Advances in mesoscale modelling – European and international perspectives (Ranjeet S Sokhi, COST 728 Chair, University of Hertfordshire, UK) [PPT]

09:50

Future of Air Quality Modelling (Greg Carmichael, GURME SAG Chair, University of Iowa, USA) [PPT]

10:10

Online Integrated Modelling: Towards a European Strategy and Prospects for End-Users (Alexander Baklanov, Vice-Chair COST 728, DMI, Denmark) [PPT]

10:30

Tea/coffee break and group photo

SESSION 1.2    Chair: Alexander Baklanov

11:00

Use of parameterisation schemes in mesoscale models for air pollution applications (Sven-Erik Gryning, Risoe, Denmark) [PPT]

11:20

How to evaluate the performance of mesoscale models in the AQ framework (Heinke Schluenzen, Vice-Chair COST 728, University of Hamburg, Germany) [PPT]

11:40

Establishing protocols for multi-model ensemble comparisons (Stefano Galmarini, JRC, Ispra)

12:00

Implementation of mesoscale applications for air pollution research – case study on assessing the impact of Russian wild fires over Europe (Mikhail Sofiev, FMI, Finland) [PPT]

12:20

Lunch

SESSION 1.3    Chair: Heinke Schluenzen

13:30

Air Quality Model for Austria -  results from COST 728 case studies and evaluation (Marcus Hirtl and Ulrike Pechinger, ZAMG, Austria) [PPT]

13:50

Air Quality and Meteorological Simulations over Po Valley (Marco Deserti, ARPA, Italy) [PPT]

14:10

Assessing the impact of forest fires in Portugal on regional air quality (Ana Isabel Miranda, University of Aveiro, Portugal) [PPT]

14:30

Comparative analysis of CMAQ simulations of a particulate matter episode over Germany (Volker Matthias, GKSS, Germany) [PPT]

14:50

Air Quality Forecasting for the Commomwealth Games (CWG-2010) in India (Gufran Beig, IITM, India)

15:10

Developments in Chemical Weather Forecasting (Jaakko Kukkonen, FMI, Finland) [PPT]

15:30

Tea/coffee break

SESSION 1.4    Chair: Ranjeet S. Sokhi

16:00

Policy Relevance of and Support Provided by Meso-scale Models (Bernard Fisher, Environmental Agency, UK) [PPT]

16:20

Caliope: an Operational Air Quality Forecasting System for Europe and Spain (Jose M. Baldasano, BSC, Spain) [PPT]

16:40

Urban impact on Air Quality in RegCM/CAMx Couple for MEGAPOLI Project - High  Resolution Sensitivity Study (Tomas Halenka, CUNI, Czech Republic) [PPT]

17:00

Impact of Grid Resolution and Surface Exchange Parameterisation on Meteorological and Air Quality Parameters Simulated with GEM-AQ Model (Joanna Struzewska, WPU, Poland) [PPT]

17:20

Open discussion

17:30

Adjournment

17:30

Reception - WMO Attic

Day 2 - Friday, 26 February 2010

09:00

Welcome

SESSION 2.1    Chair: Greg Carmichael

09:10

Developments in online coupled WRF-Chem model (Georg Grell, NOAA, USA) [PPT]

09:30

Community multiscale air quality (CMAQ) model: Recent  developments and evaluation (Ken Schere, USEPA, USA) [PPT]

09:50

High resolution mesoscale modelling with GEM-AQ (Jacek Kaminski, York University, Canada) [PPT]

10:10

Seasonal Variation of Air Pollution over the Eastern Mediterranean in 2008: a Modelling Study (Ulas Im, UOC, Greece) [PPT]

10:30

Tea/Coffee break

SESSION 2.2    Chair: Stefano Galmarini

11:00

Overview of the EC FP7 project MEGAPOLI: Megacities: Emissions, urban, regional and Global Atmospheric POLlution and climate effects, and Integrated tools for assessment and mitigation (Alexander Baklanov, DMI,  Denmark) [PPT]

11:20

The CityZen Project - Bridging the Scales with Focus on Megacities (Hermann Jakobs, Koeln University, Germany) [PPT]

11:40

An Investigation of High Summertime Ozone Levels in Istanbul with MM5/CMAQ Modelling System (Incecik Selahattin, ITU, Turkey) [PPT]

12:00

Air Quality Assessment over Northern Italy for the reference year 2005 (Sandro Finardi, Arianet, Italy) [PPT]

12:20

Lunch

SESSION 2.3    Chair: Jacek Kaminski

13:30

User oriented training needs for mesoscale modelling (Gertie Geertsema, KNMI, The Netherlands)

13:50

AOD data assimilation in the Chinese meso-scale air quality model and the plan for the Canadian AQ forecast models (Sunling Gong, MSC, Canada) [PPT]

14:10

Urban Metabolism: Mesoscale and Microscale Simulations using Remote Sensing Imagery and Data Assimilation Techniques in Madrid Area (Roberto San Jose, UPM, Spain)

14:30

A New Formula for Evaluation of Level of Air Pollution with Industrial Emissions (Sergiy Stepanenko, Odessa Environmental University, Ukraine) [PPT]

14:50

Simulation of pollutant transport in complex terrain with a NWP - particle dispersion model combination (Balazs Szintai, MeteoSwiss, Switzerland) [PPT]

15:10

Simulation of Global Krypton-85 Transport in ECHAM5 with Focus on Interhemispheric Exchange (Ole Ross, ZMAW, Germany) [PPT]

15:30

Tea/coffee break

SESSION 2.4    Chair: Ranjeet S. Sokhi

16:00

Using Windprofiler Data in Time and Frequency Domain for the Evaluation of Meteorological Drivers Employed in Chemistry Transport Modelling (Markus Quante, GKSS, Germany)

16:20

Open discussion with Panel Members

16:50

Close of workshop