The first CHE General Assembly took place between the 5th and 7th of February 2018 at ECMWF in Reading, United Kingdom.  The meeting consisted of discussions on CHE WPs, external lectures and working groups. An article summarising the meeting is also available.

Agenda:

Plenary sessions (marked with *) were live streamed and recordings are available.

Day 1 - 5th February 2018

Time	Topic	Presenter	Presentation	Recording
13:00 - 13:15	Welcome by ECMWF Director General*	Florence Rabier (ECMWF)
13:15 - 13:30	Welcome and Agenda*	Gianpaolo Balsamo (ECMWF)
13:30 - 14:00	Welcome by EC*	Monika Kacik / Bernard Pinty (European Commission)
14:00 - 15:00	Overview of CHE Objectives*	Gianpaolo Balsamo (ECMWF)
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00	WP1 Overview*	Corinne Le Quéré (UEA) / Wouter Peters (WU)
16:00 - 16:30	WP2 Overview*	Dominik Brunner (EMPA) / Hugo Denier van der Gon (TNO)
16:30 - 17:00	WP3 Overview*	Greet Maenhout (JRC) / Marko Scholze (ULUND)
17:00	Adjourn
	Ice breaker and Poster Session

Day 2 - 6th February 2018

Time	Topic	Presenter	Presentation	Recording
09:00 - 09:30	WP4 Overview*	Frédéric Chevallier (CEA) / Julia Marshall (MPG)
09:30 - 10:00	WP5 Overview*	Anna Agusti-Panareda / Gianpaolo Balsamo (ECMWF)
10:00 - 10:30	WP6 Overview*	Richard Engelen (ECMWF)
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 13:00	How good are retrievals of CO2 from satellite-based passive near-infrared sensors, and are they good enough?*	Chris O'Dell (Colorado State University)
	Scientific and institutional challenges of a global CO₂ monitoring system*	Han Dolman (VU Amsterdam)
	Using process-based assimilation in support of emissions monitoring: Can we? Should we?*	Peter Rayner (U Melbourne)
	WMO/UNEP Integrated Global Greenhouse Gas Information System in the context of the international efforts to support climate actions*	Oksana Tarasova (WMO)
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:20	Assessing California’s Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions Using Atmospheric Observations and Models*	Heather Graven (Imperial College)
14:20 - 14:50	Working Group definition and objectives	Gianpaolo Balsamo (ECMWF)
14:50 - 18:00	Working Groups on WP planning
18:00	Adjourn
19:00	Social Dinner

Day 3 - 7th February 2018

Posters

Title	Presenter	Download
Cross-correlated inference of Carbon species: a fire case-study	Jerome Barre (ECMWF)
On urban mapping/modelling	Valery Masson (MeteoFrance)
On SURFEX surface modelling collaborative platform	Patrick Le Moigne (MeteoFrance)
On the role of biosphere GHG in atmospheric concentrantions' variability	Joe McNorton (University of Leeds, now at ECMWF)
On computationally efficient methods to optimize and analyze greenhouse gas inversions.	Nicolas Bousserez (University of Boulder, now at ECMWF)
Direct space-based observations of anthropogenic CO2 emission areas from OCO-2	Hannakaisa Lindqvist (Finnish Meteorological Institute)
NASA's Carbon Cycle OSSE Initiative: Informing future space-based observing strategies through advanced modeling and data assimilation	Lesley Ott (Goddard Space Flight Centre, NASA)

Getting here:

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