8 -10 April – TF HTAP meeting – agenda

Annual meeting of the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution

Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany (and online)
All times are local time in Hamburg (CEST, UTC+2)


Wednesday, 8 April

Session 1: MCHgMAP

CESTSubject of the presentationPresenter
9:10 MCHgMAP: Project overview and progress Oleg Travnikov
9:30Spatial distribution and variability of atmospheric HgEric Roy
9:50Environmental drivers of observed atmospheric Hg trendsAri Feinberg
10:10Anthropogenic emissions drivers of observed atmospheric Hg trendsAndrei Ryjkov
10:30Break 
11:00Case study: Atmospheric reactive HgJan Gačnik
11:20Observational based spatio-temporal Hg variability in the global oceanAnne Soerensen
11:40Modeling Hg levels and trends in the oceanJohannes Bieser
12:00Cumulative anthropogenic impacts of past and future emissions and releases on the global mercury cycleConnor Olson
12:20Key findings and future plansOleg Travnikov
12:40Lunch break 

Session 2: PFAS

CESTSubject of the presentationPresenter
14:00 Introduction and statusJohannes Bieser
Martin Ramacher
14:10Status observations chapterHanna Joerss
Anne Sorensen
14:20Status modelling chapterEmma D’Ambro
Freja Osterstrom
14:30Status emissions chapterMartin Ramacher
14:40Break 
15:00World Café: Scientific and Policy Goals of the model intercomparison studyVolker Matthias
16:10Break
16:30Report back from breakout groups
17:10Closing disucssionJohannes Bieser
Martin Ramacher
17:30Adjourn for the day 

Thursday 9th April

Session 3: HTAP3-OPNS

CESTSubject of the presentationPresenter
9:00 OPNS: Project overview and progressTim Butler
9:20Results from the EMEP model at MSC-W / Met.NorwayHilde Fagerli
9:40Results from the IFS-COMPO model at ECMWFPhilipp Weiss
10:00Results from GEOS-Chem at CIEMATCoralina Hernandez Trujllo
Marta Garcia Vivanco
10:30Break 
11:00Results from CAM-chem at RIFS PotsdamTabish Ansari
11:20Results and analysis from the EMEP model at the JRCAlexander de Meij and Claudio Belis
11:40Emulation of source/receptor relationshipsOliver Wild
12:00Further analysis of resultsTim Butler
12:30Lunch break 

Session 4: HTAP3-Fires

CESTSubject of the presentationPresenter
14:00 HTAP Fires overview and status updatesCyndi Whaley
14:10Early insights on CO fire emissions sensitivity using models and observationsHelene Peiro
14:30WRF-Chem experiments for HTAP3 Fires and initial analysis on emissionsMin Huang
14:50Case study results from WRF-CHIMERELudovico Di Antonio
15:10GFAS4HTAP updatesJohannes Kaiser
15:30Break 
16:00Future fire emissions updatesDouglas Hamilton
Elisa Bergas
16:20Arctic PAH Air Concentration Trend preliminary analysis and biomass burning issuesKrystyna Koziol
Paul Bartlett
16:35PCDD/F Emissions and SimulationsReza Gholizadeh
16:50Discussion: Model evaluation datasetsAll
17:05Discussion: Updating the analysis/publications coordination tablesAll
17:30Adjourn for the day 

Friday, 10th April

Session 5: Open issues and discussion

CESTSubject of the presentationPresenter
9:00Space to address questions and issues collected throughout the meetingAll session chairs
12:30Close of the meeting 

We look forward to your participation!

Tim Butler, Rosa Wu, and Jacek Kaminski (HTAP co-chairs and vice-chair)

Johannes Bieser and Martin Ramacher (local hosts)

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