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Global Mercury Observation System

Task HE-02-C1Tracking Pollutants

Nicola PirroneGMOS Coordinator & GEO Task HE-02 Leader

GEO-X and 2014 Ministerial Summit

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GMOS Overarching Objectives

To provide spatially and temporally distributed Hg speciated measurements aimed 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.

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Bilateral Cooperative Agreements U.S. NADP (in progress) Environment Canada (in progress) Ev-K2-CNR, Italy & Nepal SETAC (in progress) Global Change Research Centre AS CR CSIRO (in progress) Baltic Sea Research Institute (in progress) Institute of Environmental Engineering (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

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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

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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 ….

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The Structure of GMOS

The Ground-based observation system The Marine Observation System The Tropospheric Observation System

+ Marine biota Lichens and Mosses Human exposure

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GMOS: ground-based monitoring network

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GMOS: Oceanographic campaigns

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GMOS Database consistency for measurements

of Mercury Species

performed during Cruise Campaigns

  Research Vessel_Year_ Affiliation                  

Atlantic Ocean Knorr1996_WHOI                  

PorquoiPas2012Fall_IFREMER                  

North Sea Belgica1996_VUB                  

Baltic SeaAlexander von Humboldt1997_IVL                  

Alexander von Humboldt1998_IVL                  

Black Sea Endeavor2005_WHOI                  

Indian Ocean Roger Revelle2007_VUB                  

Mediterranean Sea

Urania2000_CNRIIA                  

Urania2003_CNRIIA                  

Urania2003_JSI                  

Urania2003_CHALMERS                  

Urania2004Spring_CNRIIA                  

Urania2004Spring_JSI                  

Urania2004Spring_CHALMERS                  

Urania2004Spring_IFREMER                  

Urania2004Fall_CNRIIA                  

Urania2004Fall_CNRIBF                  

Urania2004Fall_JSI                  

Urania2004Fall_CHALMERS                  

Urania2004Fall_IFREMER                  

Urania2005_CNRIIA                  

Urania2005_JSI                  

Urania2006_CNRIIA                  

Urani2007_CNRIIA                  

Urania2009_CNRIIA                  

Urania2010_CNRIIA                  

Urania2011_CNRIIA                  

Urania2012_CNRIIA                  

PorquoiPas2012Spring_IFREMER                  

    TGM GEM GOM PBM DGM HgT HgR MeHg DMeHg

    ATMOSPHERE WATER

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GMOS Database consistency for

Ancillary Data

measured during Cruise

Campaigns

 Research Vessel_Year_ Affiliation

                     

Atlantic OceanKnorr1996_WHOI                      

PorquoiPas2012Fall_IFREMER                      

North Sea Belgica1996_VUB                      

Baltic SeaAlexander von Humboldt1997_IVL

                     

Alexander von Humboldt1998_IVL

                     

Black Sea Endeavor2005_WHOI                      

Indian Ocean Roger Revelle2007_VUB                      

Mediterranean Sea

Urania2000_CNRIIA                      

Urania2003_CNRIIA                      

Urania2003_JSI                      

Urania2003_CHALMERS                      

Urania2004Spring_CNRIIA                      

Urania2004Spring_JSI                      

Urania2004Spring_CHALMERS                      

Urania2004Spring_IFREMER                      

Urania2004Fall_CNRIIA                      

Urania2004Fall_CNRIBF                      

Urania2004Fall_JSI                      

Urania2004Fall_CHALMERS                      

Urania2004Fall_IFREMER                      

Urania2005_CNRIIA                      

Urania2005_JSI                      

Urania2006_CNRIIA                      

Urani2007_CNRIIA                      

Urania2009_CNRIIA                      

Urania2010_CNRIIA                      

Urania2011_CNRIIA                      

Urania2012_CNRIIA                      

PorquoiPas2012Spring_IFREMER

                     

    O3 CO WS WD Air T RH Sal SWT Cond Fluo O2

    ATMOSPHERE WATER

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GMOS: troposperic & regional campaigns

Mt. EtnaPo valley Slovenia

Waldhof

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European Tropospheric Mercury Experiment Program (ETMEP)

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Global & Regional Scale Atmospheric Modeling

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The GMOS-CI

Visualization and

Application Services/Tools

Discovery & Access

Services

Semantic Services

Security Services

Catalog, Access Servers

QA/QC Services

Brokering Services

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GMOS SDI – Access point

www.gmos.eu/sdi

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e-logbookSOPsraw data

dB

QA/QC dB

QA/QC

GMOS QA/QC Management System

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G-DQM Workflow

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Log Book service How to help site operators to strictly follow the GMOS

SOPs? How to take into account the maintenance period?

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GEOSS – Addressing Policies and Conventions

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

Video

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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

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