Draft Agenda

of the GAW Scientific Advisory Group for Reactive gases

chair: Prof. Stuart Penkett

Gozo, Malta

Grand Hotel

29 March 2011

time / Agenda item / lead
9:00-9:10 / Welcome to SAG meeting (aim) / Stuart Penkett
9:10-9:20 / Welcome by local host, GAW facilities in Malta, logistics / Raymond Ellul
9:20-10.45 / The New Science Advisory Group for Reactive Gases: consideration of composition and short presentations from members indicating expertise and interests with respect to GAW Reactive Gases / All:5 min quick presentations by all members of the SAG
(chaired byStuart Penkett)
10:45-11:00 / Coffee break
Executive Session (restricted to SAG Members)
Review of previous activities and facilities of WMOGAW Reactive Gases
11:00 -12:00 / Consideration of GAW Strategic Plan and its implications for the Reactive Gases Programme / Stuart Penkett
12:00-12:30 / Update of VOCs activities and gaps (VOC workshops, reports published, development of Central Facilities and SOPs) / Detlev Helmig/ Alastair Lewis / Rainer Steinbrecher
12:30-14:00 / Lunch
14:00-14:30 / Update on NOx activities and gaps / Christian Plass-Duelmer / Stefan Gilge
14:30-15:00 / Update on CO activities (publications, scale update, intercomparison, audits) / Brigitte Buchmann
15:00-15:30 / Update from Secretariat:
-GAW stations
-GAWTEC
Gaps in the RG programme (Central Facilities, SOPs/MG, DQOs)
request for establishment of Rolling Review of RequirementsProcess
Real-time Measurement Input / O. Tarasova
15:30 / Leave Grand Hotel
16:00-17:00 / Giordan Lighthouse (GAW station)
17:00-18:15 / On the way back stop in Victoria to allow delegates to see the old town and Citadel
18:30 / Arrive back at Hotel
19:00 / Leave hotel for dinner at Zafiro’s restaurant
23:00 / Return to the hotel

30 March

Executive Session

Future GAW activities of Reactive Gases group

9:00-10:00 / Collaboration with national observational networks and joint activities / Kjetil Torseth (EMEP, Europe)
Hajime Akimoto (Asia)
Detlev Helmig /Tom Ryerson/ JanBottenheim (USA/Canada)
10:00-10:30 / Surface ozone:
-workshop planning
-update of the measurement guidance / Brigitte Buchmann (other volunteers to take a lead?)
10:30-10:45 / Coffee break
10:45-11:15 / SO2 activities: planning of the workshop / Stefan Gilge
11:15-11:30 / VOC SOPs / Rainer Steinbrecher/ Christian Plass-Duelmer
11:30-11:45 / NOx SOPs / Tom Ryerson / Stefan Gilge
11:45-12:00 / Collaboration with metrological institutes / Rainer Steinbrecher
12:00-12:30 / Collaboration with modeling community: requirements, data use, products / Martin Schultz
12:30-13:30 / Lunch
13:30-14:00 / Collaboration with satellites, measurement requirements/RRR / Stuart Penkett / O. Tarasova
14:00-14:15 / Collaboration with GMOS (mercury)
14:15 – 14:30 / Hydrogen measurements / ????
14:30 – 15:15 / Status of the Database (update from WDCGG), RG Bulletin / Kazuto Suda
15:15-15:30 / Coffee break
15:30 – 16:00 / Preparation of Overview Paper for GAW Reactive Gases / Stuart Penkett /O.Tarasova
16:00-16:30 / Outline of Meeting Report / Stuart Penkett /O.Tarasova
16:30-17:00 / AOB (Arctic GAW Assessment; Ozone and Black Carbon Assessment; RG newsletter)
17:00 / Meeting closes