Global Mercury Observation System (GMOS)
Research Project, 2010
– 2015
The overall goal of the proposed project is to develop a coordinated global observation system for mercury able to provide temporal and spatial distributions of mercury concentrations in ambient air and precipitation over land and over surface waters at different altitudes and latitudes around the world. This will then provide high quality data for the validation and application of regional and global scale atmospheric models, to give to governments, national and international organisations and stakeholders a firm basis for future policy development and implementation. Specific objectives of the proposed project are (a) to establish a Global Observation System for Mercury (GMOS) able to provide ambient concentrations and deposition fluxes of mercury species around the world, by combining observations from permanent ground-based stations, and from oceanographic and tropospheric measurement campaigns (b) to validate regional and global scale atmospheric mercury modelling systems able to predict temporal variations and spatial distributions of atmospheric mercury entering to and re-emitted from terrestrial and aquatic receptors (c) 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 (d) to develop interoperable tools to allow the sharing of observational and models output data produced by GMOS. The overarching goal of GMOS is to support the achievement of goals set by the GEO / GEOSS, and specifically of the GEO Task HE-09-02d and contribute to the advancement of our scientific understanding in the nine Societal Benefit Areas (SBA) established in GEOSS. The proposed project will rely on the results and knowledge acquired in the framework of past EU projects (i.e., MAMCS, MOE, MERCYMS) and international programs (i.e., UNECE TF HTAP UNEP F&T partnership area).
Participants
Katarina Gårdfeldt (contact)
Chalmers, Centre for Environment and Sustainability (GMV)
Collaborations
Aarhus University
Aarhus, Denmark
Anna University Chennai
Chennai, India
Associacao Dos Pesquisadores Do Experimento De Grande Escala Da Biosfera-Atmosfera Na Amazonia
Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Consiglo Nazionale Delle Richerche
Rom, Italy
Helmholtz
Berlin, Germany
IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute
Stockholm, Sweden
Institut Francais De Recherche Pour L'exploitation De La Mer
Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France
Instituto Nacional De Meteorologia E Geofisica
Espargos, Cape Verde
Instituut Voor Toegepaste Techniek
Paramaribo, Surinam
Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission
Brussels, Belgium
Jozef Stefan Institute
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Max Planck Society
München, Germany
Meteorological Synthesizing Centreeast*Msc-East Msc-E
Moskva, Russia
Saint Petersburg State University - Spsu
Saint Petersburg, Russia
South African Weather Service
Pretoria, South Africa
Universita Ca' Foscari Venezia
Venice, Italy
Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1
Grenoble, France
University of Gothenburg
Gothenburg, Sweden
University of Latvia
Riga, Latvia
University of York
York, United Kingdom
Funding
European Commission (EC)
Project ID: EC/FP7/265113
Funding Chalmers participation during 2010–2015