The Transcom Experiment

9:45	Arrival– Coffee & Tea
10:00		Welcome
		Session: Transcom experiments
10:15	Shoichi Taguchi	TransCom continuous experiment: Comparisons of radon concentrations at inland stations
10:45	Christopher Pickett-Heaps	Upper-Air Inter-comparison Project: Preliminary Results
11:15	Shamil Maksyutov	Satellite experiment progress report (including GOSAT research announcement)
11:45		Discussion [GOSAT research announcement]
12:15	Lunch (on site)
13:15	Nicholas Parazoo	A look at synoptic CO2 in the midlatitudes and tropics using continuous CO2 observations and Transcom continuous results
		Session: Inversion methodology / results
13:45	Anna Michalak	Bridging across Spatial and Temporal Scales in Carbon Dioxide Flux Estimation through Geostatistical Analysis of Scale-Dependent Relationships Between Carbon Flux and Auxiliary Environmental Data
14:15	Philippe Ciais	Is the Transcom model ensemble representative of the uncertainty in CO2 synoptic variability simulation?
14:45	Coffee/tea
15:00	Peter Rayner	On the analysis of residuals in CO2 inversions
15:30	Ravindra Lokupitiya	Estimation of Carbon Fluxes by MLEF-PCTM Model for Years 2003 and 2004
16:00	Andy Jacobson	North American CO2 Fluxes from CarbonTracker compared with a new synthesis of inverse models
16:30	Discussion

		Session: Meso-Scale Transport
9:00	Christoph Gerbig	The sub-grid scale: high resolution forward modelling with WRF-VPRM
9:30	Dhanyalekshmi K Pillai	Mesoscale transport of CO2: comparison of WRF-VPRM with its Lagrangian counterpart STILT-VPRM
10:00	Yuji Koyama	High resolution simulation of the atmospheric greenhouse gases variability with a coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian transport model
10:30	Coffee/Tea
10:45	Kristina Trusilova	A coupled TM3-STILT atmospherie transport model for a high-resolution inversion of carbon fluxes over Europe
11:15	Ravan Ahmadov	Comparing high-resolution WRF-VPRM simulations with continuous observations from the CarboEurope Regional Experiment
11:45	Alex Vermeulen	Rn222 vertical gradient measurements and its use for transport model calibration
12:15	Lunch (in town)
13:45	Jordi Vila	What controls the diurnal variability of carbon dioxide?
		Session: Combined Atmosphere – Ecosystem Modelling
14:15	Ute Karstens	Evaluation of terrestrial ecosystem models through a comparison of atmospheric CO2
14:45	Bakr Badawy	Estimating CO2 fluxes by coupling a simple diagnostic biosphere model into a global atmospheric inverse model
15:15	Coffee/Tea
15:30	Feng Deng	Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentrations Simulated With a Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (BEPS) and an Atmospheric Transport Model (TM5)
16:00	Wouter Peters	CarbonTracker Europe results and the non steady-state biosphere
16:30	Discussion

		Session: Combined Atmosphere – Ecosystem Modelling (cont.)
9:00	Y. Nakatsuka Shamil Maksyutov	Optimization of the terrestrial biospheric flux seasonality vs airborne profile data
9:30	Frederick Chevallier	Variational inversion of CO2 surface fluxes: application to in situ data
10:00		Discussion [Transcom inversion intercomparison, P. Peylin]
10:30	Coffee/Tea
		Session: Other trace gases
10:45	Lori Bruhwiler	Carbontracker methanes
11:15	Jocelyn Turnbull	14CO2 as a diagnostic for vertical transport in atmospheric transport models
11:45	Christian Roedenbeck	Estimated interannual variability of O2 and CO2 fluxes
12:15	Lunch(in town)
13:45	Zoe Loh	Testing Lagrangian atmospheric dispersion modelling to monitor CO2 and CH4 leakages from geosequestration
		Session: Remote Sensing
14:15	Anna Michalak	NASA Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights, Days, and Seasons (ASCENDS) Mission
14:45	Hartmut Boesch	(not available): Assessing the Capability to Constrain CO2 Surface Fluxes from CO2 Columns Observed by OCO (Orbiting Carbon Observatory) Instrument
15:15	Coffee/Tea
15:30	Maarten Krol Sander Houweling	Inverse modelling of SCIAMACHY observed CH4 (Houweling) Inverse modelling of SCIAMACHY observed CH4 (Krol)
16:00	Richard Engelen	Flux inversion of CO2 using satellite data in a 2-step 4D-Var set-up: first results using AIRS data
16:30	Discussion

Morning		Excursion to Cabauw
12:30	Lunch in Catharijne-convent
		Session: Long Range Transport Modelling
13:30	Frank Dentener	Modelling of long-range transport of air pollution within the frame of the Task Force Hemispheric Air Pollution
14:00	Arlene Fiore Frank Dentener	Constraining uncertainties in observed methane inter-annual variability: A proposal for multi-model decadal hindcast simulations
14:15	Yosuke Niwa	Tracer transport simulation by using NICAM
14:45	Sara Mikaloff-Fletcher	Latitudinal Gradients of Atmospheric Radiocarbon: A New Window onto Dynamical Controls of the Southern Ocean
15:15	Coffee/Tea
15:30	Prabir Patra	Global, regional and local scale transport of SF6 and CO2 in the troposphere
16:00	Takashi Maki	Greenhouse Gas Analysis Information by Japan Meteorological Agency
16:30	Wrap up / Closing discussion