Clean Air Day – how EUMETNET’s AutoPollen Programme is helping with air quality monitoring

/ Articles by Alexandra Albus-Moore

Clean Air Day – how EUMETNET’s AutoPollen Programme is helping with air quality monitoring

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16 September 2024

To highlight the contribution of NMHSs to the health sector on the occasion of the Clean Air Day, the WMO Regional Office for Europe has conducted an interview on the EUMETNET AutoPollen Programme.

Read the full interview at https://community.wmo.int/en/interviews to discover how the programme aids in air quality monitoring and management. The interview provides valuable insights into the programme’s role in research and operations.

AutoPollen special issue in Aerobiologia

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22 July 2024

AutoPollen, a EUMETNET programme dedicated to developing a European network for the real-time detection of pollen and fungal spores, published a special issue in the journal Aerobiologia.

This issue provides a comprehensive overview of the programme’s achievements on topics such as forecast models integrating real-time pollen observations, bioaerosol detection and identification methods, and evaluation and standardization of these methods.

It serves as a valuable resource for experts aiming to establish or enhance automatic aerobiological monitoring networks and highlights the impact of real-time and high temporal resolution data for end-users in a range of sectors from public health, research, to agricultural and more.

Visual: Picture from Regula Gehrig

EUMETNET-led Programme EMADDC wins the EMS Technology Achievement award

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3 June 2024

The European Meteorological Society has selected the European Meteorological Aircraft Derived Data Centre (EMADDC) as the recipient of the EMS Technology Achievement Award 2024.

For further information, see the link below:

EMS Technology Achievement Award 2024 for EMADDC : European Meteorological Society (emetsoc.org)

Cross-Border Convection Forecast (CBCF)

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7 May 2024

The 7th season of Cross-Border Convection Forecast started successfully on 1 May with the participation of  23 European MET ANSPs and the coordination of EUMETNET

The Cross Border Convective Forecast (CBCF) is a collaborative forecast that provides Network Manager (NM) at EUROCONTROL, and participating ANSPs, with information about convective weather across European Airspace.

NM uses this information to coordinate with impacted Air Traffic Control Centres (ACCs) across Europe and implement mitigation measures to minimise flight delays and improve aircraft safety. Possible measures include calling in stand-by controllers, postponing military exercises or relaxing routing restrictions.

Just in time for this collaborative convection forecast, the weather proved to be interesting, so that the coordination across borders for the sake of a consistent forecast led to a colorful chart. 

BULATSA participation in eGAFOR

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EUMETNET is pleased to announce that on 1 May, BULATSA started the operational service provision of eGAFOR for the area of Bulgaria.

With the coordination of EUMETNET, BULATSA has joint as the 8th Aeronautical Meteorology Air Navigation Service Providers (MET ANSPs) participating in the eGAFOR Module alongside ARSO (Slovenia), BHANSA (Bosnia and Herzegovina), CCL (Croatia), HungaroMet (Hungary), ROMATSA (Romania), SHMI (Slovakia), SMATSA (Serbia and Montenegro). The Participants regularly produce a uniform, harmonized, probabilistic, graphical, colour-coded, low-level Forecast (LLF) for VFR Flights up to FL 100, with an assessment of the impact of weather on flight routes.

The main user of the eGAFOR forecast is General Aviation and the forecast is freely available for users via this dedicated webpage: eGAFOR Viewer

 

 

Signature of the MoU between EUMETNET & WMO

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26 March 2024

The WMO SG, Celeste Saulo, and the EUMETNET Executive Director, Klemen Bergant, have signed the MoU between EUMETNET and WMO.

The aim of this MoU is to enhance collaboration in matters of mutual interest, such as meterological observation systems and data infrastructure, weather and climate services, the promotion and implementation of early warning systems, reserach and development, education and training, etc.

WMO activities such as the WMO Information System (WIS), the WMO Integrated Global Observation System (WIGOS) and joint initiatives such as the WMO-IATA Collaborative AMDAR Programme (WICAP), the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) and several others provide a general framework for cooperation.

The signature of this agreement means that the excellent cooperation between WMO and EUMETNET will continue and be enhanced over the next five years.

The NMSs of Lithuania and Romania become full Members of EUMETNET

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19 December 2023

Two new National Met Services will join EUMETNET as full Members from 1st January 2024. The NMSs of Lithuania and Romania, both Cooperating Members of EUMETNET for several years, officially requested full membership from 1st January. These two new Members will bring the number of full Members of EUMETNET to 33.

The delegation from NMAR (NMS of Romania) was present at the 31st Assembly meeting in Reading and signed the amendment Agreement with the Assembly Chair, Roar Skalin and the Executive Director, Klemen Bergant.

Signature of amended EUMETNET Agreement

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The 31 Members of EUMETNET signed the amendment to the EUMETNET Agreement that will come into force on 1st January 2024. EUMETNET, which was previously an economic interest grouping (GIE – Groupement d’Intérêt Economique), will become a general partnership (SNC – Société en Nom Collectif).

The amendment to the Agreement was signed at the Assembly meeting that took place at ECMWF Headquarters in Reading, UK.

This Agreement provides the basis for cooperation between the European NMSs for the next 10 years.

The Chair of the Assembly, Roar Skalin and Klemen Bergant, the Executive Director, sign the Agreement.

Approval of new 5-year Programme phase

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At its 31st Assembly meeting in Reading, EUMETNET Assembly Members approved the new five-year Programme phase that will last until 2028, extending all the current Programmes and their Modules.

In addition two new Programmes and Modules were approved, the new Programme on Artificial Intelligence for Weather, Climate and Environmental Applications, as well as a new activity within the Aviation Support Programme producing Cross-Boder Convention Forecasts for EUROCONTROL Network Manager and other users.

New Chair and Vice-Chair of EUMETNET Assembly

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17 July 2023

EUMETNET’s Spring Assembly meeting, held in Reykjavik,  was chaired for the first time by Dr Roar Skålin, Director of the Norwegian Meteorological Service, MET Norway, who has been elected as the new Chair of EUMETNET’s Assembly of Members.

Dr Skålin replaces Dr Peter Binder from MeteoSwiss, who stepped down as Chair following his retirement.

Dr Martin Benko from the Slovakian Meterological Service, SHMU, was elected as Vice-Chair.

Both Dr Skålin and Dr Benko will serve initial two-year terms.