International Activities

ACMSU staff are involved in a number of international activities. A brief description of them is given here.

ACCENT AT2: AT2 is the Satellite Remote Sensing Task of ACCENT, the European Network of Excellence on Atmospheric Composition Change.
http://troposat.iup.uni-heidelberg.de/index.html
ACCENT IA3 IPCC4 Experiment II: 2030 Photcomp.: In this study a variety of models (CTMs and CCMs) calculated atmospheric chemistry changes between 2000 and 2030. We participated with 2 models: the UM with tropospheric chemistry and our CTM p-TOMCAT.
http://www.accent-network.org/farcry_accent/
ACCENT Access to Information 2: Laboratory Data (WP5): This ACCENT activity aims to improve online access to laboratory data and databases.
http://www.accent-network.org/
AMMA: African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis: ACMSU staff are involved in the international AMMA programme and will be carrying out both measurements and modelling.
ITOP/ICARTT: The ITOP/ICARTT campaign took place in 2005 to study transport of pollutants across the North Atlantic. ACMSU staff have been involved in this campaign, participating in the measurement phase and carrying out post-mission analysis.
IUPAC Kinetic Data Evaluation: We are involved in the IUPAC Subcommittee for Kinetic Data Evaluation project to put evaluated kinetic data on the web as a searchable database. This website has been operational for a number of years and has been very successful. ACMSU staff have been instrumental in enabling this project and in further developments. A mirror site has been established in the USA recently.
http://www.iupac-kinetic.ch.cam.ac.uk/
Mirage-MEX: Mirage-MEX is a forthcoming measurement campaign to study in the impact of megacities, in this case, Mexico City. ACMSU will be involved in this campaign.
QUANTIFY: QUANTIFY is an EU programme to study the impact of aircraft on the atmosphere. ACMSU scientists are carrying out modelling studies as part of this programme.
RETRO:: We are leading of one of the workpackages in this EU FP5 project and participating in 2 others as well. RETRO aims at establishing global fields of the concentrations of key pollutants, and the analysis of their trend and variability. The project employs several sophisticated global chemistry transport models (GCMs) and a variety of data sets from ground based, air and space borne measurements, which are assessed in terms of their quality and consistency.
http://retro.enes.org/index.php
SCOUT: ACMSU staff are coordinating the EU SCOUT-O3 project aimed at further understanding stratospheric processes. See http://www.ozone-sec.ch.cam.ac.uk/scout_o3/.