IAS / Division of Environment and Sustainability Joint Lecture - Challenges in the Quantification of the Emissions of Atmospheric Compounds

Abstract

An accurate quantification of the emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants is essential to understand, manage and mitigate their impact on air quality and climate. However, quantifying both anthropogenic and natural emissions is a complex and challenging task, due to the complexity of the different sources and difficulties in measuring and collecting the data necessary to calculate the emissions. The speaker will review the main methodologies used to quantify the emissions from human activities, natural processes and fires, and give insights on current projects designed to evaluate the uncertainties on emissions. She will also show how current international projects help in a better knowledge of these emissions at the global and regional scales.


About the Speaker

Dr. Claire GRANIER received her MS in Mathematics, PhD in Geophysics, and PhD in Physics, all from the University of Paris, in 1980, 1982 and 1988 respectively. She was a Scientist at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research during 1990-1996. She then joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder and is currently a Senior Research Scientist there. She is also the Directrice de Recherche at the Laboratoire d’Aérologie in Toulouse, France.

Dr. Granier’s scientific interests include global budget of chemical species in the troposphere, development and analysis of distributions of surface emissions, development of surface emissions databases, analysis of satellite observations of chemical species, impact of human activities on the composition of the atmosphere, and analysis of chemistry-climate interactions.

Dr. Granier is the Co-director of the Emissions of atmospheric Compounds and Compilation of Ancillary Data (ECCAD) Database and the Co-chair of the Analysis of eMIssions usinG Observations (AMIGO) project. She is also a member of the executive committee of the Global Emissions InitiAtive (GEIA) international project and of the steering committee of the Monitoring, Analysis, and Prediction of Air Quality (MAP-AQ) project.


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