MEGAPOLI News

MEGAPOLI Project Official Leaflet and NewsLetters
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• Dec 2011 – To All MEGAPOLI Partners, Collaborators and End-Users --- Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2012 !!!

• 30 Nov 2011 – MEGAPOLI dissemination reporting - Third Year MEGAPOLI Dissemination Report (MEGAPOLI Deliverable 9.4.3); MEGAPOLI Scientific Report 11-24, MEGAPOLI-50-REP-2011-10, 104p.
• 30 Nov 2011 – MEGAPOLI Project Final Report, Chapter 1: "Final publishable summary report" (MEGAPOLI Deliverable 9.6)
  
• 18 Oct 2011 – 9th telephone conference for MEGAPOLI WP Leaders (topics of reporting to EC, remaining scientific deliverables/ reports, 2nd Periodic report and MEGAPOLI Final report, financial reporting, public web-site update, brochure with answers on scientific questions, publications and presentations for 2012+)
• 1 Oct 2011 –  Final Reporting to EC and 2nd Periodic Reporting (1 Apr 2010 - 30 Sep 2011) - in progress
  
• 30 Sep 2011  – The last offical day of the 3 year FP7 EC MEGAPOLI project (1 Oct 2008 - 30 Sep 2011)
  
• 26-28 Sep 2011 – Final MEGAPOLI Symposium (26-28 Sep 2011; Paris, France; CNRS Headquarters) - attended more than 100 persons from 17 countries from 54 research organizations, included 36 oral and 20 poster presentations; 6 sessions including poster session; panel discussions, and final management meeting. The Symposium was organized in order to present major results achieved within the MEGAPOLI project; to discuss the issue of atmospheric pollution in and from megacities with a wider audience of researchers and end-users; to give a broader picture of research performed within the field with a particular focus on the Paris agglomeration (where two major campaigns in July 2009 and Jan-Feb 2010 were conducted); to address the impact of selected European and worldwide megacities on atmospheric composition, air quality and climate, including scenarios of future megacity development; to discuss relevance of the project scientific achievements for decision makers as well as future key research needs (final summary presentation by Matthias Beekmann, CNRS-LISA team)
• 22 Sep 2011 – final information on the MEGAPOLI Symposium (26-28 Sep 2011; Paris, France); Final announcement of the Symposium; Agenda (agenda of the symposium and sessions overview), List of participants (with affiliations and contact e-mail addresses);  How to reach CNRS Headquarters (address, map, directions); Final Symposium dinner - news from local organizers, CNRS-LISA team
• 21 Sep 2011 – MEGAPOLI Project Office Telephone Conference with the CNRS-LISA team - aspects of the MEGAPOLI Symposium (daily schedule, presentations, round table discussions, management meeting, closing remarks, etc); discussions on writing the brochure wtih aswers on the MEGAPOLI scientific questions; finalization of all MEGAPOLI deliverables/ reports
• 19 Sep 2011 – announcement - Special session on "Air Quality and Climate/Meteorology Interactions and Feedbacks" is scheduled at the 8th International Conference on Air Quality - Science
  and Application (Air Quality 2012, Athens, Greece, 19-23 Mar 2012); organized in cooperation with the EC FP6 EUCAARI, EC FP7 MEGAPOLI and CityZen, COST Action ES1004 EuMetChem, and others
  
• 15 Sep 2011 – contributions and drafting brochure with Answers on MEGAPOLI Scientific Questions - in progress
  
• 14 Sep 2011 – Volume of the MEGAPOLI Project NewsLetters (collection of 12 issues) is published
• 14 Sep 2011 – latest news - Mark Lawrence (co-coordinator of the MEGAPOLI Project, and leader of the MPIC team) has been appointed to new position as one of the Directors of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS; Postdam, Germany)  together with 2 other directors Prof. Klaus Töpfer and the NobelPrise vinner Prof. Carlo Rubbia
• 13 Sep 2011 – 12th MEGAPOLI Project NewsLetters, the final newsletter (Issue 12, Sep 2011) is published
• 12 Sep 2011 – all required MEGAPOLI Deliverables /scientific reports/ have been uploaded into the ECAS web-portal for reporting; only a few of them have not been yet finally submitted to EC
  
• 12-16 Sep 2011 – special session ASI11 "Environmental Meteorology (from local to global)" (serving as a dissemination forum for different projects including MEGAPOLI ) at the 11th Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society (EMS) and the 10th European Conference on Applications of Meteorology (ECAM) (EMS-2011; 12-16 Sep2011; Berlin, Germany)
• 9 Sep 2011 – MEGAPOLI project is invited to contribute to the Annual International Innovation Report
  
• 7 Sep 2011 – reminder: the pre-final versions of reports on the MEGAPOLI deliverables must be completed the latest by 23 Sep 2011 - news from the MEGAPOLI Project Office (see corresponding e-mail reminder sent to all MEGAPOLI Wp and Team leaders)
  
• 6 Sep 2011 – so far more than 90 participants, including MEGAPOLI collaborators and end-users, had registered to attend the Final MEGAPOLI Symposium; several sessions with oral presentations are planned including the poster session; the panel and round table discussions are planned as well as the final management meeting on reporting to EC - news from Matthias Beekmann (CNRS-LISA team)
• 5 Sep 2011 – MEGAPOLI project will be presented by Alexander Baklanov (DMI team) at workshop "Research in support of the EU Air policy review" (20 Oct 2011, Brussels, Belgium)
  
• 4 Sep 2011 – reminder: contributions from all MEGAPOLI teams are welcome til 17 Oct 2011 for submission to the special issue of the GEOFIZIKA journal (http://geofizika-journal.gfz.hr)
  
• 2 Sep 2011 – announcement - International Workshop on Air Quality Forecasting and Research (29 Nov - 1 Dec 2011, Bolger Center, Potomac, MD, USA) see details at http://www.arl.noaa.gov/IWAQFR_home.php
  
• 1 Sep 2011 – selected scientific reports on deliverables of the sister project FP7 EC CityZen became publicly available at http://www.cityzen-project.eu/deliverables
  
• 19 Aug 2011 – 8th telephone conference for MEGAPOLI WP Leaders - 13-14.30 CET; issues discussed: 1) 2nd Periodic Reporting to EC (1 Apr 2010 - 30 Sep 2011), Final Reporting to EC, current status, progress, and finalization by WPs for deliverables/ reports, milestones, etc; reporting on coordination, management, and dissemination, financial reporting; 2) Plans for the Final MEGAPOLI Symposium (Paris, France; 26-28 Sep 2011); outcome of UAQCC Workshop (16-18 Aug 2011; Hamburg, Germany); 3) Plans for presentations at upcoming conferences and publications in special issues and sci. journals - summary notes are available at MEGAPOLI internal website
  
• 18 Aug 2011 – MEGAPOLI project overview to be presented by Mark Lawrence (MPIC team) at the IGBP "Planet under pressure" Conference in London, Mar 2012
  
• 17 Aug 2011 – testing functionality of the MEGAPOLI ETHER platform for accessing the Paris campaign data/ measurements at http://ether.ipsl.jussieu.fr - has started (will continue till 8 Sep 2011)
  
• 16-18 Aug 2011 – Urban Air Quality and Climate Change Workshop, UAQCC (Hamburg, Germany) with relevant MEGAPOLI project presentations
  
• 10 Aug 2011 – 2nd announcement on 8th International Conference on Air Quality, Science and Application (Athens, Greece; 19-23 Mar 2012) - news from UH-CAIR team
  
• 5 Aug 2011 – reminder: contributions from the MEGAPOLI project are welcome till 19 Sep 2011 for submission to the special issue of the GEOFIZIKA journal (http://geofizika-journal.gfz.hr), following the workshop on "Integration of Geospheres in Earth Systems: Modern Queries to Environmental Physics, Modelling, Monitoring & Education" held in Dubrovnik, Croatia (30 Apr - 3 May 2011)
  
• 3 Aug 2011 – invited talk "The Paris MEGAPOLI campaign to better quantify carbonaceous aerosol formation in a tertiary type mid-latitude megacity" to be presented by Matthias Beekmann (CNRS-LISA team) at the American Geophysical Union (AGU-2011; 5-9 Dec 2011, San Francisco, CA, USA) Annual Meeting during the session A08 "Aerosols in Urban and Rural Environments: Sources, Transformations, Properties, and Atmospheric Effects"
  
• 3 Aug 2011 – 2nd announcement of the Final MEGAPOLI Symposium (26-28 Sep 2011; Paris, France); Preliminary agenda (agenda of the symposium and sessions overview), List of hotel close-by (walking distance) and address, contact information; How to reach CNRS Headquarters (address, map, directions) - contact person Matthias Beekmann, CNRS-LISA team (contact: Matthias.Beekmann@lisa.univ-paris12.fr)
• 2 Aug 2011 – reminder - MEGAPOLI WP leaders and MEGAPOLI Partners/teams leaders - the last 2 months of the MEGAPOLI Project (official ending date is 1 Oct 2011): finalize remaining MEGAPOLI deliverables/ reports in due time; summarize list of all MEGAPOLI relevant publications (remember to acknowledge MEGAPOLI in publications/ presentations); start collecting contributions for the MEGAPOLI Final Periodic Reporting to EC; revise MEGAPOLI public website content on "Project Results" by WPs - news from the MEGAPOLI Project Office
  
• 2 Aug 2011 – MEGAPOLI Final Report to EC - draft report has been distributed to MEGAPOLI WP and Team leaders for contributions
• 1 Aug 2011 – working meeting and seminar on NASA project "Multi-scale and multi-sensor analysis of urban cluster development and agricultural land loss in China and India" (Karen C. Seto; Yale University, USA) on urbanization and MEGAPOLI project; joined by Anette Reenberg (University of Copenhagen) - to develop a stronger US-EU collaboration on the subject of environmental impacts of urbanization, and to expand the methods to the whole world beyond the areas that are currently studied in the NASA Land Cover/Land Use Change Program and EU FP7 MEGAPOLI Project - news from Alexander Baklanov, DMI team
• 1 Aug 2011 – 8th MEGAPOLI WP Leaders telephone conference is scheduled on 19 Aug 2011, Friday
  
• 25 Jul 2011 – 4th NewsLetter of the FP7 project BRIDGE (sustainaBle uRban plannIng Decision support accountinG for urban mEtabolism) had been published - news from Nektaria Adaktilou (BRIDGE Project)
  
• 21 Jul 2011 – announcement - 92nd American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting / 17th Conference on Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA (22-26 Jan 2012, New Orleans, LA, USA)
• 15 Jul 2011 – continue planning of the Final MEGAPOLI Symposium (Sep 2011, Paris, France): programme, invited speakers, registration, etc. - news from Matthias Beekmann, CNRS-LISA team
  
• 3-9 Jul 2011 – 2nd Young Scientist Summer School (YSSS-2011) on "Integrated Modelling of Meteorological and Chemical Transport Processes / Impact of Chemical Weather on Numerical Weather Prediction and Climate Modelling” (Odessa, Ukraine); see details at: http://www.ysss.osenu.org.ua
  
• 1 Jul 2011 – reminder - the last NewsLetter of the MEGAPOLI project will be published in Sep 2011 - you still have a possibility to present results of your studies performed within the MEGAPOLI project and relevant to MEGAPOLI; as well as to provide short information on MEGAPOLI involved young researches/ students (PhD, MSc, BSc) - news from the MEGAPOLI Project Office
  
• 30 Jun 2011 – reminder - MEGAPOLI WP leaders and MEGAPOLI Partners/teams leaders - the last 3 months of the MEGAPOLI Project (official ending date is 1 Oct 2011): finalize remaining MEGAPOLI deliverables/ reports in due time; summarize list of all MEGAPOLI relevant publications (remember to acknowledge MEGAPOLI in publications/ presentations); start collecting contributions for the MEGAPOLI Final Periodic Reporting to EC; revise MEGAPOLI public website content on "Project Results" by WPs - news from the MEGAPOLI Project Office
  
• 24 Jun 2011 – announcement - 2nd Annual Meeting "Environment and Public Health in Modern Society" EPH (7-8 Nov 2011; Berlin, Germany)
  
• 21 Jun 2011 – announcement - 32nd International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and its Application (7-11 May 2012, Utrecht, The Netherlands); see details at: http://www.int-tech-mtng.org
  
• 20 Jun 2011 – 11th MEGAPOLI Project NewsLetters (Issue 11, Jun 2011) is published. The expected periodicity : every 3 months (Dec, Mar, Jun, Sep). Contributions from all Partners/ Teams and WorkPackages, as well as Collaborators and Users are welcome. Send your contributions related to activities of the MEGAPOLI and other linked projects, news and announcements to the following e-mail: news.megapoli@dmi.dk (maximum: size of 1 page, 2+ illustration, 3 references). Download/Save MS Word NewsLetters template file.
• 15 Jun 2011 – continue planning of the Final MEGAPOLI Symposium (Sep 2011, Paris, France) - news from Matthias Beekmann, CNRS-LISA team
  
• 14 Jun 2011 – WP3: Megacity plume case study - finalization of data protocol for the MEGAPOLI / Ether database (where Paris campaign data will be stored) access/use - news from Mattias Beekmann, CNRS-LISA team
• 9-10 Jun 2011 – Workshop on surface emissions (focus only on anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions.) in EU projects (i.e. PEGASOS, MACC and MACC-II, CityZen, ACCESS, ACCENT+, MEGAPOLI, etc.)
  
• 1 Jun 2011 – 8th MEGAPOLI WP Leaders telephone conference is planned on 19 Aug 2011 (12-14 CET) after the Urban Air Quality and Climate Change Workshop, UAQCC workshop - to be hosted by the UHam team
  
• 27 May 2011 – 1st announcement of the Final MEGAPOLI Symposium (26-28 Sep 2011; Paris, France) - contact person Matthias Beekmann, CNRS-LISA team (contact: Matthias.Beekmann@lisa.univ-paris12.fr)
• 25 May 2011 – 2nd announcement of the Urban Air Quality and Climate Change Workshop, UAQCC (16-18 Aug 2011; Hamburg, Germany) - contact person Heinke Schluenzen, UHam team (contact: umet@zmaw.de)
• 25 May 2011 – "Megacities and GURME" meeting Agenda (at the International Conference Centre of Geneva, CICG) during the World Meteorological Congress
• 24 May 2011 – 7th telephone conference for MEGAPOLI WP Leaders - 12-14 CET; issues discussed: 1) Current status and progress by WPs (deliverables, milestones, tasks, etc.); 2) Plans for  UAQCC (Hamburg, Germany, Aug 2011), and Final MEGAPOLI Symposium (Paris, France; Sep 2011); 3) Plans for publications in special issues and sci. journals; - summary notes are available at MEGAPOLI internal website
• 18 May 2011 – announcement - 8th International Conference on Air Quality Science and Application (Athens, Greece, 19-23 March 2012); see details at: http://www.airqualityconference.org
  
• 16 May 2011 – World Meteorological Congress (May 16 - June 3, 2011; Centre International de Conférences Genève) opened
  
• 15 May 2011 – new WMO GURME website - The WMO GAW Urban Research Meteorology and Environment Project (http://mce2.org/wmogurme)
  
• 13 May 2011 – announcement - 48th Oholo Conference ""Emerging Remote Sensing Techniques and Associated Modeling for Air Pollution Applications" (6-10 Nov 2011, Eilat, Israel) - news from Oholo Conference Secretariat (oholo@iibr.gov.il)
  
• 12 May 2011 – telephone conference on "WP7: Integrated tools and  implementation" & contributions on implementation of integrated models for selected megacities are expected until the end of May 2011 - news from Ranjeet Sokhi, UH-CAIR team
  
• 11 May 2011 – announcement of the Final MEGAPOLI Symposium (26-28 Sep 2011; Paris, France) - contact person Matthias Beekmann, CNRS-LISA team (contact: Matthias.Beekmann@lisa.univ-paris12.fr)
• 10 May 2011 – work completed on European and megacity baseline scenarios up to 2050 - lead by USTUTT team
  
• 8 May 2011 – continue work on regional impact of megacities (contribution to MEGAPOLI Deliverable D5.5) - lead by DMI and FMI teams
  
• 6 May 2011 – continue work on implementation of integrated models for selected megacities (contributions to MEGAPOLI Deliverable D7.3) - lead by UH-CAIR and WMO teams
  
• 4 May 2011 – reminder - invitation to submit manuscripts to the ACPD Special Issue based on the EGUs sessions on Megacities: "Megacities: air quality and climate impacts from local to global scales"; http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/special_issue129.html
  
• 3 May 2011 – reminder - invitation to submit manuscripts to the ACPD Special Issue "MEGAPOLI-Paris 2009/2010 campaign"; http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/special_issue139.html
• 2 May 2011 – continue discussions on deliverable reporting "Implementation of integrated models for selected megacities" (lead by UH-CAIR and WMO teams)
• 30 Apr - 3 May 2011 – International workshop “Integration of geospheres in earth systems: Modern queries to environmental physics, modelling, monitoring & education” and joint meeting of the three projects: EU TEMPUS Qualimet, EU FP-7 projects PBL-PMES and MEGAPOLI, and Russian partner project MEGAPOLIS took place in Dubrovnik, Croatia (30 Apr - 3 May 2011). MEGAPOLI project was presented by Alexander Baklanov, DMI team; and MEGAPOLIS project was presented - by Valery Bondur,  AEROCOSMOS; (other presentations are available at the internal website); see also summary notes
  
• 26-28 Apr 2011 – WP3: Megacity plume case study meeting/ workshop at Paul Scherrer Institute, PSI (Villigen, Switzerland); attended 50 persons; institutions involved - from LISA, IPLS, INERIS, LSC, Marseille University (France), MPIC (Germany), University of Cork (Ireland), University of Patras (Greece), University of Helsinki (Finland), PSI (Switzerland), DMI/ Technalia (Spain), and others; given presentations included - emissions and source apportionment, gasphase analysis, aerosol chemical speciation, aerosol physics and chemistry, inter-comparison of the measurements, data quality, quantification of uncertainty in the measurements at different sites and modelling (Logistic information for the MEGAPOLI campaign meeting; directions to PSI and map)
• 19 Apr 2011 – reminder - special session ASI11 "Environmental Meteorology (from local to global)" (sponsored and thus will serve as a dissemination forum for the COST Actions 728, ES0602 (ENCWF), ES0603 (EUPOL) and ES1004 (EuMetChem), the GMES-projects MACC and FP7 projects MEGAPOLI andPASODOBLE, and EUMETNET WG-ENV ) at the 11th Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society (EMS) and the 10th European Conference on Applications of Meteorology (ECAM) (EMS-2011; 12-16 Sep2011; Berlin, Germany)
• 13 Apr 2011 – materials from the Megacities session AS3.6 + Splinter meeting with CityZen and MILAGRO + MEGAPOLI working meeting have been placed at the MEGAPOLI internal website
  
• 10 Apr 2011 – reminder - submission deadline is 31 Dec 2011- special issue on megacities in the Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics; http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/special_issue129.html
  
• 6 Apr 2011 – newsletter - Mar 2011 Issue of the Urban Climate News - of the International Association for Urban Climate, is now available from the IAUC website; http://www.urban-climate.org
  
• 4-5 Apr 2011 – MEGAPOLI related session AS3.6 "Megacities: Air Quality and Climate Impacts from Local to Global Scales" at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011 (EGU-2011, Vienna, Austria, 3-8 Apr 2011) with invited talk on MEGAPOLI by Spyros Pandis (FORTH Team); and Splinter Meeting with CityZen and MILAGRO
  
• 4 Apr 2011 - Mon, 08:30-17:00 - AS3.6 Session "Megacities: Air Quality and Climate Impacts from Local to Global Scales" (Oral presentations); Convener: Michael Gauss, Co-Conveners: Luisa Molina, Alexander Baklanov)
• 4 Apr 2011 - Mon, 17:30-19:00 - AS3.6 Session "Megacities: Air Quality and Climate Impacts from Local to Global Scales" (Poster presentations)
• 5 Apr 2011 - Tue, 08:30-10:00 - Room SM2 - MEGAPOLI/ CityZen/ MILAGRO joint splinter meeting of the MEGAPOLI, CityZen and MILAGRO projects (Introduction - by Alexander Baklanov; status and progress on projects - CityZen - by Michael Gauss, MEGAPOLI - by Alexander Baklanov, MILAGRO - by Spyros Pandis; and followed discussions lead by Mark Lawrence; summary notes of the meeting - by Alexander Mahura); Attended - 27 persons (MEGAPOLI - 16; CityZen - 8; MILAGRO - 1; other projects - 2) from 13 countries and from 22 research organizations/ institutions (list of participants)
  
• 5 Apr 2011 - Tue, 10:30-12:00 - Room SM1 - MEGAPOLI working meeting (progress and finalization of tasks, deliverables, and milestones hve been discussed; separate WP6, 7, and 8 phone-conferences have been planned, in addition to the re-scheduled MEGAPOLI WP Leader phone-conference)
  
• 3 Apr 2011 – reminder: ACCENT-Plus Symposium on "Air Quality and Climate Change: Interactions and Feedbacks" (13-16 Sep 2011; Urbino, Italy); http://www.uniurb.it/SA/AccentPlus2011/leaflet2011.html
  
• 1 Apr 2011 – MEGAPOLI project factsheets (including information on expected results) have been sent to include into the EC European Research Area / Environment / "Climate Change" news
  
• 30 Mar 2011 – finalization of detailed analysis and evaluation from the PMCAMx simulations for the Paris and Mexico City metropolitan areas - news from Spyros Pandis (FORTH team)
  
• 29 Mar 2011 – reminder: Workshop on Aerosol Impact in the Environment: from Air Pollution to Climate (8-12 Aug 2011, Trieste, Italy): Topics of the Workshop include the following: Aerosol from natural processes and anthropogenic activities; Aerosol composition, properties and geographical distribution; Aerosol pollution and public health problems; Aerosol effects on local and global climate; Aerosol and atmospheric radiation; Aerosol and clouds; Aerosol deposition on land and ocean; Aerosol impacts on ecosystems functioning and biogeochemical cycles. - news from Fabien Solomon (ICTP team)
  
• 28 Mar 2011 – finalization of the MEGAPOLI Deliverables: D7.2 "Evaluation of integrated tools" (lead by UHam) and D5.3 "Evaluation and improvement of regional model simulations of megacity plumes" (lead by FMI)
  
• 26 Mar 2011 – possible collaboration with the German Airspace Center (group "Urban Areas and Land Management" - focusing on derivation of urban footprints using remote sensing data from TerraSAR-X mission) - info from Hannes Taubenboeck (Hannes.Taubenboeck@dlr.de)
• 25 Mar 2011 – Young Scientists Summer School (YSSP-2011) on “Integrated Modelling of Meteorological and Chemical Transport Processes / Impact of Chemical Weather on Numerical Weather Prediction and Climate Modelling” is planned in Odessa, Ukraine, 3-9 July 2011 (see details at: http://atmos.physic.ut.ee/~muscaten/YSSS/1info.html)
  
• 23 Mar 2011 – "WP3: Megacity plume case study" meeting is scheduled for 26-28 Apr 2011 (PSI, Villigen, Switzerland); Logistic information for the MEGAPOLI campaign meeting; directions to PSI and map - contact person Matthias Beekmann, CNRS-LISA team (contact: Matthias.Beekmann@lisa.univ-paris12.fr)
• 20 Mar 2011 – reminder : Workshop on "Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL): Science, Education and Urban Applications" organized by the FP7 EU MEGAPOLI, Russian MEGAPOLIS, EU TEMPUS and FP7 EU PBL-PMES projects will be held 30 Apr - 3 May 2011 (Dubrovnik, Croatia) - news from Alexander Baklanov, DMI Team
• 19 Mar 2011 – daughter Russian project MEGAPOLIS has finalised the 2nd year (2010) dissemination report (in Russian) - available at the internal MEGAPOLI website
  
• 17 Mar 2011 – planing and drafting by MEGAPOLI coordinators the booklet with answers on the MEGAPOLI scientific questions
  
• 13 Mar 2011 – FP7 EU Project "The Pan-European Gas-AeroSOls-climate interaction Study (PEGASOS); http://pegasos.iceht.forth.gr/" has started from Jan 2011
  
• 11 Mar 2011 – "WP3: Megacity plume case study" meeting is planed for 26-28 Apr 2011 (PSI, Villigen, Switzerland) - contact Matthias Beekmann, CNRS-LISA team (contact: Matthias.Beekmann@lisa.univ-paris12.fr)
• 8 Mar 2011 – The Eggs publication (EGU NewsLetters) about the MEGAPOLI Project - "Megacities: Emissions, urban, regional and Global Atmospheric Pollution climate effects, and Integrated tools for assessment and mitigation"; (http://www.the-eggs.org/articles.php?id=144)
• 7 Mar 2011 – 10th MEGAPOLI Project NewsLetters (Issue 10, Mar 2011) is published. The expected periodicity : every 3 months (Dec, Mar, Jun, Sep). Contributions from all Partners/ Teams and WorkPackages, as well as Collaborators and Users are welcome. Send your contributions related to activities of the MEGAPOLI and other linked projects, news and announcements to the following e-mail: news.megapoli@dmi.dk (maximum: size of 1 page, 2+ illustration, 3 references). Download/Save MS Word NewsLetters template file.
• 6 Mar 2011 – joint MEGAPOLI, CityZen, MILAGRO projects session is planned at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (http://www.agu.org/meetings/)
  
• 4 Mar 2011 – submit contributions for new special issue entitled "Megapoli-Paris 2009/2010 campaign" as part of the journal Atmos Chem & Physics (Guest editors: Prof. Alexander Baklanov, Matthias Beekmann, Jean-Luc Jaffrezo, Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez, Claire Reeves, and Robert Vautard)
  
• 26 Feb 2011 – interest in cooperating with EU UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) KNOSSOS (Knowledge from Science to SOcietieS); it is a dissemination project coordinated by UNEP that aims at identifying promising projects (and their results) for policy-making, and disseminating such results to policy-makers - contact: Brigitte Steinberg-Hines (brigitte.steinberg@unep.org)
  
• 25 Feb 2011 – MEGAPOLI project factsheets (with info about aims of the project and described briefly some key results) to the European Commission - DG Research
  
• 24 Feb 2011 – new EU FP7 project AirMonTech "Air Pollution Monitoring Technologies for Urban Areas" (http://www.AirMonTech.eu) has started at end of 2010 - compiling information to harmonize current air pollution monitoring techniques and to advise on future monitoring technologies and strategy.
  
• 21 Feb 2011 – first five papers were publised in the ACPD Special Issue 'Megacities: air quality and climate impacts from local to global scales' related to MEGAPOLI, CityZen, and MILAGRO projects (Editors: L. Molina, A. Baklanov, M. Gauss, and U. Poschl); see at: http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/special_issue129.html; Reminder: the issue is stil open for submission of manuscripts until end of 2011
  
• 18 Feb 2011 – indicators for the impact assessment for WP8: Mitigation, Policy Options and Impact Assessment - news from Jochen Theloke, USTUTT team
  
• 15 Feb 2011 – update and revise scenario scaling factors for base year emissions in WP1: Emissions - news from Hugo van der Gon, TNO team & Jochen Theloke, USTUTT team
  
• 14 Feb 2011 – discussions and planning continued for the Urban Air Quality and Climate Change Workshop, UAQCC (16-18 Aug 2011; Hamburg, Germany)
• 13 Feb 2011 – start planning of the MEGAPOLI Paris campaign workshop - aim is to review science done so far in campaign exploitation, give room to build collaborations, meeting is open to the whole project, a good way for modelers to familiarize with campaign data - 30 Mar - 1 Apr 2011, PSI, Switzerland - news from Matthias Beekmann, CNRS-LISA team and Urs Baltensperger, PSI team
  
• 10 Feb 2011 – special issue with selected papers from ICUC-7 Urban Climate Meeting in Yokohama (2009) has been published by the International Journal of Climatology, Feb 2011, Vol 31(2)
  
• 5 Feb 2011 – MEGAPOLI project presented by the European Commission DG Science for Environment Policy, Issue 227: "Megacities need mega-models to assess their environmental impact"
  
• 4 Feb 2011 – WP4: Megacity Air Quality - Urban Increment Technical Note (description of methodology for the estimation of urban concentrations increments in Europe) - news from Nicolas Moussiopoulos, AUTH team
• Feb 2011 – discussions and planning continued for the 3rd Annual MEGAPOLI Meeting (Sep 2011; Paris, France)
• 3 Feb 2011 – announcement - International Symposium on Near real Time Data Application in Air Quality Forecasts, 2-4 Mar 2011, Hangzhou, China - news from Liisa Jalkanen, WMO team
  
• 2 Feb 2011 - new calculations are available for anthropogenic heat flux (London & all cities globally) from LUCY model - visit webpage http://geography.kcl.ac.uk/micromet - news from Sue Grimmond, KCL team
  
• 1 Feb 2011 - new version of MEGAPOLI European nested emission database v1.1 (Deliverable 1.6) is available - news from Denier van der Gon, TNO team
  
• 23-27 Jan 2011 - MEGAPOLI Project presented (invited talk "Physical and chemical weather as a joint problem: two-way interacting integrated modelling") at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) 91st Annual Meeting (Seattle, WA, USA; 23-27 Jan 2011) by Alexander Baklanov, DMI team; and working meetings of the project coordinator with MEGAPOLI US collaborators (G. Grell, J. Ching, R. Bornstein, J. Fernando, and Y. Zhang) were organized
  
• 21 Jan 2011 – announcement - workshop on "Climate Services and ICT tools for Environmental Urban Planning" during ISESS-2011 Conference, 27-29 Jun 2011, Brno, Czech Republic:
  
• 19 Jan 2011 - reminder to provide information on Integrated Modelling Systems and time scales for megacity runs - news from Ranjeet Sokhi, UH-CAIR team
• 19 Jan 2011 - reminder to provide information on modelling studies in selected megacities by the MEGAPOLI teams - news from Jaakko Kukkonen, FMI team
  
• 18 Jan 2011 - reminder on accessing to high resolution emission data for Europe and baseline projections - news from Hugo van der Gon, TNO team & Jochen Theloke, USTUTT team
  
• 16 Jan 2011 - joint Splinter Meeting (MEGAPOLI, CityZen, and MILAGRO) is planned at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011 (EGU-2011, Vienna, Austria, 3-8 Apr 2011)
• 15 Jan 2011 - reminder about uploading MEGAPOLI campaigns data at the database - news from Matthias Beekmann, CNRS-LISA
  
• 13 Jan 2011 - 6th telephone conference for MEGAPOLI WP Leaders - 14-16 CET; issues discussed: 1) Current status and progress by WPs (deliverables, milestones, tasks, etc.); 2) Plans for AMS-2011 (Seattle, USA; Jan 2011), EGU-2011 (Vienna, Austria; Apr 2011), UAQCC (Hamburg, Germany, Aug 2011), and 3rd Annual MEGAPOLI Meeting/Workshop (Paris, France; Sep 2011); 3) Plans for publications in special issues and sci. journals; - summary notes are available at MEGAPOLI internal website
• 8  Jan 2011 - MEGAPOLI project will be presented by Alexander Baklanov, DMI Team at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) 91st Annual Meeting (Seattle, WA, USA; 23-27 Jan 2011)
  
• 1  Jan 2011 - quarterly newsletter (Vol.38, Dec 2010) of the Urban Climate News, the of the International Association for Urban Climate (IAUC) is available from the IAUC website; see at http://www.urban-climate.org
  

• Dec 2010 – Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2011 !!!

• 29 Dec 2010 – MEGAPOLI dissemination reporting - Second Year MEGAPOLI Dissemination Report (MEGAPOLI Deliverable 9.4.2); MEGAPOLI Scientific Report 10-21, MEGAPOLI-24-REP-2010-12, 89p.
• 23 Dec 2010 – Atmospheric Backward Transport Analysis Products to interpret atmospheric transport processes and how they influenced surface stations measurements in the Paris metropolitan area during the MEGAPOLI campaigns - news from Andreas Stohl, NILU Team
  
• 21 Dec 2010 – announcement - 14th international conference on Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes (Kos, Island (Greece), 2-6 Oct 2011); see link at
  http://www.harmo.org/harmo14 - deadline for short abstracts is 15 Mar 2011.
  
• 10 Dec 2010 - reminder - 10 Jan 2011 - deadline for receipt of abstracts to the MEGAPOLI related session AS3.6 "Megacities: Air Quality and Climate Impacts from Local to Global Scales" (Convener: Michael Gauss; Co-Conveners: Luisa Molina , Alexander Baklanov) at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011 (EGU-2011), Vienna, Austria, 3-8 Apr 2011
  
• 9 Dec 2010 - meeting is planned in Jan 2011 with partners of the FP7 EU sister project CityZen in the University of Bologna, CNR (Italy) - news from Stefano Galmarini, JRC team
  
• 8 Dec 2010 - WP7: Integrated Tools and Implementation - discussions on integrated modelling approaches for air quality and climate change megacity studies - news from Ranjeet Sokhi, UH-CAIR team
  
• 4 Dec 2010 - 9th MEGAPOLI Project NewsLetter (Issue 9, Dec 2010) is published. The expected periodicity : every 3 months (Dec, Mar, Jun, Sep). Contributions from all Partners/ Teams and WorkPackages, as well as Collaborators and Users are welcome. Send your contributions related to activities of the MEGAPOLI and other linked projects, news and announcements to the following e-mail: news.megapoli@dmi.dk (maximum: size of 1 page, 2+ illustration, 3 references). Download/Save MS Word NewsLetters template file.
  
• 3 Dec 2010 - agenda of the 6th MEGAPOLI WP leaders phone conference has been finalized (available at internal web-site) - news from the MEGAPOLI Project Office
  
• 2 Dec 2010 - The FP7 project BRIDGE (sustainaBle uRban plannIng Decision support accountinG for urban mEtabolism) has published the 3rd newsletter (more info can be found at http://www.bridge-fp7.eu) - news from Katerina Katsiabani (kkatsiam@phys.uoa.gr)
  
• 24 Nov 2010 - MEGAPOLI project overview article by Baklanov et al. "MEGAPOLI: concept of multi-scale modelling of megacity impact on air quality and climate" - has been accepted for publication in "Advances in Science and Research" journal; http://www.adv-sci-res.net/volumes.html
• 22 Nov 2010 - responsibilities on proof-reading of the MEGAPOLI Deliverables/ Reports have been distributed among DMI, FORTH, and MPIC teams (coordinating persons of the MEGAPOLI project) - news from the MEGAPOLI Project Office
• 20 Nov 2010 - announcement - Urban Air Quality and Climate Change Workshop (16-18 Aug 2011; Hamburg, Germany) - contact person Heinke Schluenzen, UHam team (contact: heinke.schluenzen@zmaw.de)
• 18 Nov 2010 - announcement - 14th International Conference on "Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes" will be held in Kos, Island (Greece), 2-6 Oct 2011; Deadline for abstracts is 15 Mar 2011; (see more details at: http://www.harmo.org/harmo14)
  
• 15 Nov 2010 - 2nd Annual Dissemination reporting and Finalization of remaining Deliverables/ Reports - in progress - news from the MEGAPOLI Project Office
  
• 14 Nov 2010 - announcement - International Scientific Conference on Pollution and Environment-Treatment of Air (PETrA 2011) to be held during 17-20 May 2011, in Prague, Czech Republic (see more details at: http://odour.webnode.cz/en/konference/konference-petra-2011)
  
• 12 Nov 2010 - overview of regional modelling activities in MEGAPOLI - news from Jaakko Kukkonen, FMI team
• 9 Nov 2010 - for the MEGAPOLI Paris campaign (at 3 locations: LHVP, SIRTA and Golf de la Poudrerie measurement sites) the NILU team will perform particle trajectory simulations using the FLEXPART model and considering BC, CO, SO2, and NOx - all both as passive and aerosol-like tracers, with scavenging and dry deposition) - news from Andreas Stohl (NILU team) and Matthias Beekmann (CNRS-LISA team)
  
• 6 Nov 2010 - ensemble evaluation for the Paris summer 2009 campaign is on-going - news from Mikhail Sofiev, FMI team
  
• 4 Nov 2010 - discussions on outlining and preparation of the MEGAPOLI deliverable 5.5 "Influence of regional scale emissions on megacity air quality " (lead by DMI and FMI teams) have started - news from Alexander Baklanov, DMI team
  
• 3 Nov 2010 - all WPs presentations and summary notes of the WPs and Thematic Groups meetings and discussions (+joint photo of participants) during the 2nd MEGAPOLI Annual Meeting have been uploaded at the MEGAPOLI internal website (http://megapoliforum.dmi.dk) - news from Alexander Mahura, DMI team
  
• 1-2 Nov 2010 - 2nd MEGAPOLI Annual Meeting (KlimaCampus, University of Hamburg; Hamburg, Germany) - attended around 50 persons; included oral presentations on all MEGAPOLI WPs and 4 key (Paris, London, Po Valley, and Rhine-Ruhr area) Megacities in Focus; MEGAPOLI advisory and steering group meeting; parallel specific meeting and discussions on WPs 5, 7, 8; discussions in thematic groups on different scale studies (global, regional, and local) followed by summary presentations from each group and linkage between groups; discussions on the 3rd year MEGAPOLI plans; collaborative projects/ external partners oral presentations; summarization of items/ topics of the 2nd year reporting; discussions on planned/ written articles, special issues, meetings, etc.; important note: the final 3rd Annual MEGAPOLI Meeting/ Workshop (Paris, France) - contact Matthias Beekmann, CNRS-LISA team (contact: Matthias.Beekmann@lisa.univ-paris12.fr)
  
• 27 Oct 2010 - announcement of event linked with MEGAPOLI - final workshop for Mesoscale Modelling for Air Pollution Applications (MESO-NET) - NERC KT project (14 Dec 2010, UH-CAIR, UK) - news from Ranjeet Sokhi, UH-CAIR team
  
• 26 Oct 2010 - final programme of the 2nd MEGAPOLI annual meeting to be held in the KlimaCampus (1-2 Nov 2010, Hamburg, Germany) has been finalized and distributed - news from Ole Ross, UHam team
  
• 25 Oct 2010 - WP7: "Integrated Tools and Implementation" meeting and discussions are planned for 2 Nov 2010 at the 2nd MEGAPOLI annual meeting (Hamburg, Germany) - news from Ranjeet Sokhi, UH-CAIR team
• 25 Oct 2010 - MEGAPOLI project linked at website of our sister CityZen project (see at https://wiki.met.no/cityzen/start) - news from Michael Gauss, CityZen project
  
• 21 Oct 2010 - Workshop on "Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL): Science, Education and Urban Applications" organized by the FP7 EU MEGAPOLI, Russian MEGAPOLIS, EU TEMPUS and FP7 EU PBL-PMES projects will be held 30 Apr - 3 May 2011 (Dubrovnik, Croatia) - news from Alexander Baklanov, DMI Team
• 19-21 Oct 2010 - collaboration with MEGAPOLI project has been discussed during 2nd General Assembly of the Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate (MACC; http://www.gmes-atmosphere.eu)  held in Toulouse, France
  
• 19 Oct 2010 - comments to MEGAPOLI assessment report (results of mid-term reporting to EC) to be presented at the 2nd MEGAPOLI annual meeting - news from Jose Jimenez-Mingo, MEGAPOLI EC Scientific Officer
  
• 18 Oct 2010 - MEGAPOLI Deliverables (3.1. & 3.3) describing the Paris measurements database are available at the MEGAPOLI public website (section: Project Results: WP3: Megacity Plume Case Study"; read requirements in order to access the database - news from Matthias Beekmann, CNRS-LISA team
• 17 Oct 2010 - announcement - special session on Environmental Modelling during the 8th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computations (LSSC-11), Sozopol, Bulgaria, 6-10 Jun 2011 (see more details at http://parallel.bas.bg/Conferences/SciCom11.html) - news from Krassimir Georgiev (contact: krtgeorgiev@gmail.com)
  
• 15 Oct 2010 - discussions on finalization of the agenda of the 2nd MEGAPOLI annual meeting (Hamburg, Germany) - continue - contributions from all WP leaders and MEGAPOLI teams participating in the meeting
  
• 14 Oct 2010 - scenarios to be considered taking into account percentage distribution, emission ratios, and per capita emissions - news from Hugo van der Gon, TNO team
  
• 13 Oct 2010 - scenarios to be run: annihilation and redistribution related to 2005 and 2030 and based on RCP- news from Bill Collins, UK MetO team
  
• 11 Oct 2010 - global emission redistribution scenarios based on gridded RCP datasets - news from Tim Battler, MPIC team
  
• 10 Oct 2010 - emission scenarios for Europe and case studies with megacities - news from Jochen Theloke, USTUTT team
• 7 Oct 2010 - announcement - NATO Advanced Research Workshop: "Climate Change, Human Health and National Security" will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia (28-30 Apr 2011); see more details http://www.nd.edu/~dynamics/NATOWorkshop.htm - WP2 short working meeting is planned - news from Alexander Baklanov, DMI team
  
• 5 Oct 2010 - boundary conditions (for 2005 for gases) for regional runs have been uploaded at FMI ftp-server - news from Mikhail Sofiev, FMI team
• 1 Oct 2010 - work started with scenario runs (control/ urbanization, de-urbanization; present, future) - new from Tim Battler, MPIC team
  
• 30 Sep 2010 - Urban Climate News (Sep 2010, Issue 37) is available from the IAUC website: http://www.urban-climate.org
  
• 28 Sep 2010 - MEGAPOLI Mid-Term Reporting (1st reporting period, months 1-18) to EC has been positively evaluated; the assessment report with comments has been sent by MEGAPOLI Sci. Officer; available at the internal website
  
• Sep 2010 - continue discussions on contributions to presentations of the MEGAPOLI WPs at the 2nd Annual Meeting, re-drafting the agenda of the meeting
• 23 Sep 2010 - MEGAPOLI WPs leaders are requested to summarize and forward WPs outcomes and results as contributions for the MEGAPOLI 2nd Dissemination Report - news from MEGAPOLI Project Office
  
• 20 Sep 2010 - reminder - EUROCITIES meeting of the Air Quality/climate change/energy Working Group (25-26 Oct 2010, Stockholm, Sweden) - contact Eva Banos (Eva.Banos@eurocities.eu)
  
• 17 Sep 2010 - 8th MEGAPOLI Project NewsLetter (Issue 8, Sep 2010) is published. The expected periodicity : every 3 months (Dec, Mar, Jun, Sep). Contributions from all Partners/ Teams and WorkPackages, as well as Collaborators and Users are welcome. Send your contributions related to activities of the MEGAPOLI and other linked projects, news and announcements to the following e-mail: news.megapoli@dmi.dk (maximum: size of 1 page, 2+ illustration, 3 references). Download/Save MS Word NewsLetters template file.
• 15 Sep 2010 - announcement - the International Conference on Air Quality - Science and Application is re-scheduled for Mar 2012 (instead of 2011) - news from UH-CAIR team; contact Ranjeet S. Sokhi for details
• 14 Sep 2010 - MEGAPOLI project to be presented at the International Workshop on Air Quality Forecasting Research (IWAQFR 2010; 16-18 Nov 2010; Château Frontenac, Québec City, Canada); http://www.iwaqfr-2010.ca - news from Alexander Baklanov, DMI Team
• 13 Sep 2010 - drafted agenda of the 2nd Annual MEGAPOLI Meeting (1-2 Nov 2010, Hamburg, Germany) - has been circulated among WP and Team leaders - involved  in preparation the UHam and DMI teams as well as coordinators; clarification of planned presentations by WPs and collaborators
  
• 11-12 Sep 2010 - discussions on possibility to use trajectory modelling for linking with measurements results from WP3 Paris campaigns - news from Matthias Beekmann, CNRS-LISA and Andreas Stohl, NILU
  
• 6 Sep 2010 - WP5: regional modelling ensemble: the 2005 output collection starts! - the Paris campaign 2009 is under processing with most of the models included and the late-comers catching-up; discussions are expected during the 2nd Annual MEGAPOLI Meeting in Hamburg, Germany - news from Mikhail Sofiev, FMI Team
• 9 Sep 2010 - WP3 "Paris Plume Study" - the revised MEGAPOLI Data Exchange Protocol has been passed among participants - news from Matthias Beekmann, CNRS-LISA Team (see details at the MEGAPOLI internal website)
  
• 1 Sep 2010 - WP3 "Paris Plume Study" - revised summary notes of the WP3 Paris meeting (14-15 Jun 2010) with a revised list of intended papers for the special issue of Atm. Chem. and Phys. on Paris measurements and modelling results - see internal MEGAPOLI website
  
• 27 Aug 2010 - WP3 "Paris Plume Study" - MEGAPOLI Data Exchange Protocol - discussions on access and use of the MEGAPOLI database (Sum 2009 and Win 2010 Paris measurement campaigns results) - initiated by Matthias Beekmann, CNRS-LISA Team
  
• 25 Aug 2010 - announcement - FP7-Project Development course /held during 15-16 Nov 2010, Budapest, Hungary/ linked with the FP7 Financial and Project Management course (18-19 Nov 2010); see more details at www.eutrainingsite.com/proposal_development.php/
  
• 19 Aug 2010 - abstract submission for the International Workshop on Air Quality Forecasting Research (IWAQFR 2010; 16-18 Nov 2010; Château Frontenac, Québec City, Canada); http://www.iwaqfr-2010.ca; Thematic areas: 1) Emission Sources in Air Quality Forecast Models; 2) Process Representation in Air Quality Forecast Models; 3) Data and Assimilation in Air Quality Forecasts; 4) Air Quality Forecast Model Evaluation; and 5) Post Processing of Air Quality Forecasts
• 17 Aug 2010 – 5th telephone conference for MEGAPOLI WP Leaders - 12-14 CET; issues discussed: 1) Status/ results of the MEGAPOLI Mid-Term periodic reporting; 2) 2nd Annual MEGAPOLI Meeting in Nov 2010; 3) Expected MEGAPOLI deliverables by month 24/ Sep 2010; 4) Results from WP3 Paris Workshop in Jun 2010; 5) Current progress/ status of all WPs; - summary notes are available at MEGAPOLI internal website
• 15 Aug 2010 – open for submission of papers: Special Issue "Megacities: Air Quality and Climate Impacts from Local to Global Scales" - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics/ ACP; Editors: Luisa T. Molina, Alexander Baklanov, Michael Gauss, Ulrich Poschl; Start Date: 1 Aug 2010; End Date: 31 Dec 2011; issue is dedicated special sessions on "Megacities: Air Quality and Climate Impacts from
  Local to Global Scales," which were convened at the EGU General Assembly in 2009 and 2010 and will include contributions from the EGU-2011 session. In addition, this special issue will consider articles related to the topic, including key findings from the three large projects MILAGRO, MEGAPOLI, CITYZEN, as well as other atmospheric science studies conducted in large urban centers around the world, highlighting the following areas: 1) Emissions; 2) Photochemistry; 3) Aerosol and trace gas measurements; 4) Meteorological measurements; 5) Dynamics and radiative effects; 6) Regional climate; 7) Air quality modeling; 8) Satellite remote sensing of air quality in cities; 9) Implications of policy to reduce air pollution (air quality, health, climate change)
  
• 14 Aug 2010 – information about the FP7 MEGAPOLI project to be prepared for presentation in the EGS on-line NewsLetters;  latest issue is available at http://www.the-eggs.org/data/eggs_30.pdf
  
• 13 Aug 2010 – announcement - abstract submission for the AGU-2010 Fall Meeting, session B32 on "Urban Areas and Global Change", San Francisco, 13-17 Dec 2010
  
• 11 Aug 2010 – open for submission of papers: Special Issue "Advances in Environmental Modelling" - IJERPH  (ISSN 1660-4601, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/); Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Allan Brimicombe; Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 Jan 2011
• 9 Aug 2010 – megacity air pollution plumes in the past century; (animation showing atmospheric emission and transport of a 10-day lifetime tracer, scaled to CO emissions and population growth; available from ftp://ftp.mpic.de/Lelieveld/) - news from Jos Lelieveld, MPIC team
  
• 7 Aug 2010 – announcement - call for papers for the ESF-COST High-Level Research Conference on Extreme Environmental Events, 13-17 Dec 2010, UK; http://www.esf.org/conferences/10345
  
• 5 Aug 2010 – WP5: Regional and Global Atmospheric Composition - discussions on studies of influence of regional scale emissions on megacity air quality (on example of the recent summer 2010 forest fires in the Moscow region) - news from DMI and FMI teams
• 3 Aug 2010 – WP3: "Paris Plume Study" - MEGAPOLI Paris campaign database - contact Schmechtig Catherine, CNRS-LISA (Catherine.Schmechtig@lisa.u-pec.fr)
• 30 Jul 2010 – reminder - reporting on the 2nd year (month 24, Sep 2010) MEGAPOLI deliverables  is approaching
  
• 15 Jul 2010 – announcement  - European Intercomparison for Receptor Modelling of Air Pollutants Workshopa (4-5 Nov 2010); venue: European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC) Ispra - Italy; organised by: European Reference Laboratory for Air Pollution (ERLAP)
• 7 Jul 2010 – announcement  - international workshop on "City weathers: meteorology and urban design 1950-2010", 23-24 Jun 2011, at the University of Manchester, UK; topic o is the application of  climatological and meteorological knowledge in city planning; more indormation at http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/architecture/research/csud
  
• 1 Jul 2010 – The June 2010 (Issue #36) of the Urban Climate News, the newsletter of the International Association for Urban Climate, is now available from the IAUC (http://www.urban-climate.org)
• 25 Jun 2010 – WP3: "Paris Plume Study" - summary notes of the MEGAPOLI campaign exploitation meeting (14-15 Jun 2010, Paris, France) are available at the MEGAPOLI internal web-site with presentations given at the meeting;  main topics discussed: revised the campaign exploitation progress, refined scientific questions, established a list of papers for a special ACP section, decided on database actions - news from Matthias Beekmann, CNRS-LISA team
  
• 18 Jun 2010 – MEGAPOLI project presented at the WORLD EXPO-2010 EU-China Science and Technology Week (14-19 Jun 2010, Shanghai, China) by Alexander Baklanov (DMI team); a meeting had been held with the Shanghai Meteorological Service (MEGAPOLI Collaborator)
• 17 Jun 2010 – announcement - trainings on the FP7 Coordination, Management, Financial Reporting and Audits (Sep-Oct 2010, Budapest, Hungary); see more details at http://www.eutrainingsite.com/open_courses.php
  
• 14-15 Jun 2010 - WP3: "Paris Plume Study" - MEGAPOLI campaign exploitation meeting (Paris, France); aims: foster common exploitation of the MEGAPOLI campaign; establish list of sci. questions that campaign data will allow to answer; treat remaining database issues (see more details at internal web-site)
• 13 Jun 2010 - WP3: "Paris Plume Study" - reminder to submit data for the MEGAPOLI Paris campaign database - news from Schmechtig Catherine, CNRS-LISA (Catherine.Schmechtig@lisa.u-pec.fr)
  
• 12 Jun 2010 – announcement - Inter-Regional Training Workshop on Urban Climatology (6-10 Sep 2010, Pune, India) organized by WMO through its Comission for Climatology (CCI) and Climate Information and Prediction Services (CLIPS) Project; see more details at http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/wcp/wcasp/UrbanClimate.html
  
• 11-12 Jun 2010 – MEGAPOLI Partners (DMI and FMI) and Adv. Board Member (Prof. Gregory Carmichael, Univ Iowa, USA) meeting and discussions with collaborators (Institute Physics of Atmosphere, RAS, Moscow) of the Russian MEGAPOLIS project
  
• 9 Jun 2010 – important note - 5th MEGAPOLI WP Leaders telephone conference has been re-scheduled for 17 Aug 2010, 12-14 CET (see more details on agenda at internal web-site)
  
• 7 Jun 2010 – 7th MEGAPOLI Project NewsLetter (Issue 7, Jun 2010) is published. The exprected periodicity : every 3 months (Dec, Mar, Jun, Sep). Contributions from all Partners/ Teams and WorkPackages, as well as Collaborators and Users are welcome. Send your contributions related to activities of the MEGAPOLI and other linked projects, news and announcements to the following e-mail: news.megapoli@dmi.dk (maximum: size of 1 page, 2+ illustration, 3 references). Download/Save MS Word NewsLetters template file.
• 2 Jun 2010 – 2nd Annual MEGAPOLI Meeting is scheduled during 1-2 Nov 2010 at the University of Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany) - contact Heinke Schluenzen, UHam team (heinke.schluenzen@zmaw.de)
• 1 Jun 2010 – final programme and details of the MEGAPOLI campaign exploitation meeting (14-15 Jun 2010, Paris, France) has been distributed among participants - news from Matthias Beekmann, CNRS-LISA team
  
• 31 May 2010 – Mid-Term periodic reporting to EC (sci. coordination, management, and dissemination) has been submitted also through the ECAS web-portal and MEGAPOLI deliverables (by month 18) are available at  the MEGAPOLI public and internal web-sites (see corresponding sections on workpackages in "Project Results")
  
• 30 May 2010 – MEGAPOLI project to be presented at the WORLD EXPO-2010 EU-China Science and Technology Week (14-19 Jun 2010, Shanghai, China) on 18 Jun 2010; a meeting with the Shanghai Meteorological Service (MEGAPOLI Collaborator) is planned - news from Alexander Baklanov (DMI team)
  
• 29 May 2010 – MEGAPOLI Mid-Term Periodic Reporting (including all deliverables/ reports) is requested by the MEGAPOLI EC Sci. Officer to be uploaded at a newly opened ECAS web-portal
  
• 28 May 2010 – Resilient Cities 2010 Congress (28-30 May 2010, Bonn, Germany); see more details at: http://www.iclei.org/bonn2010
  
• 28 May 2010 – MEGAPOLI achievements for the 1st reporting period sent to the MEGAPOLI EC Sci. Officer for the UNFCCC conference on megacities (Bonn, Germany)
  
• 25 May 2010 – collaboration with CityZen on Istanbul emissions (testing 2 high resolution episodes in 2008 (PM in winter, and ozone in summer) - news from Ulas Im (Collaborator)
  
• 24 May 2010 – discussions on emissions and modelling studies for the 2nd level megacities (Moscow, Istanbul, St.Petersburg, Cairo, and others) of the MEGAPOLI Pyramid - news from Alexander Baklanov (DMI team)
  
• 20 May 2010 – MEGAPOLI Paris campaigns data will became available at the CNRS-LISA web-site: for Summer 2009 - 10 Jun 2010; and for Winter 2010 - 15 Sep 2010 (see more details at the internal website) - contact with Matthias Beekmann, CNRS-LISA team (Matthias.Beekmann@lisa.univ-paris12.fr)
  
• 19 May 2010 – finalization of discussions and setup on regional ensemble parameters; collaboration with COST CWF action; after the meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark (17-18 May 2010) - news from Mikhail Sofiev (FMI team)
• 18 May 2010 – 5th MEGAPOLI WP Leaders telephone conference is scheduled on 14 Jul 2010, 12-14 CET
  
• 17 May 2010 – 2nd NewsLetter of the (sustainaBle uRban plannIng Decision support accountinG for urban mEtabolism) BRIDGE project aiming at incorporating sustainability aspects in urban  planning processes, accounting for some well recognised relations between  urban metabolism and urban structure - on behalf of the BRIDGE project, Katsiabani Katerina, kkatsiam@phys.uoa.gr
• 12 May 2010 – announcement - Einladung Symposium focusing on key aspects of research in field of Technical Meteorology (8 Jul 2010, Hamburg, Germany) - contact Heinke Schluenzen (UHam Team; heinke.schluenzen@zmaw.de)
  
• 11 May 2010 – MEGAPOLI WP7 "Integrated tools and implementation" meeting (8 Jun 2010, Hatfield, UK) is scheduled; aim is to identify and discuss the areas that will lead to integration of knowledge and tools leading to applications of proposed case studies - news from Ranjeet Sokhi, UH-CAIR Team
  
• 10 May 2010 – reminder - Conference on Urban Environmental Pollution - UEP 2010 - Overcoming Obstacles to Sustainability and Quality of Life (20-23 Jun 2010, Boston, USA); see more details at http://www.uep2010.com/
• 7 May 2010 – reminder - ITM 2010 NATO/SPS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and its Application (27 Sep - 1 Oct 2010, Torino, Italy); see more details at: http://www.int-tech-mtng.org/
  
• 6 May 2010 – kick-off meeting of the collaborative FP7 EC TRANSPHORM (http://transphorm.eu; Transport related Air Pollution and Health impacts –. Integrated Methodologies for Assessing Particulate Matter) project - news from Alexander Baklanov, DMI team
  
• 3-4 May 2010 – participation of the MEGAPOLI partners and collaborators in the EGU-2010 Annual General Assembly (2-7 May 2010, Vienna, Austria)
  
• 3 May 2010 - special joint MILAGRO, CityZen, and MEGAPOLI session "Megacities: Air Quality and Climate Impacts from  Local to Global Scales" (submitted about 80 oral and poster presentations) Convener: L.T. Molina,  Co-Conveners: M. Gauss, A. Baklanov; invited speaker from MEGAPOLI - Dr.  Matthias Beekmann (CNRS-LISA Team): "The Paris MEGAPOLI campaign to better quantify organic aerosol formation in a large agglomeration: first results"; Oral session - from 8.30 till 17.00; and poster session - from 17.00 till 19.00; MEGAPOLI presentations are available at the internal website
  
• 4 May 2010 - joint splinter meeting of the MEGAPOLI, CityZen and MILAGRO projects (Introduction - by Michael Gauss, status and progress on projects - MEGAPOLI - by Alexander Baklanov, MILAGRO - by Luisa Molina, CityZen - by Michael Gauss; and followed duscussions lead by Mark Lawrence and Michael Gauss; summary notes of the meeting - by Alexander Mahura); Attended – 43 persons (MEGAPOLI – 16; CityZen – 16; MILAGRO – 7; other projects – 4) from 13 countries (Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, USA, Mexico, Singapore, The Netherlands, France, Russia, UK, China, Norway, and Denmark) from 27 research organizations/ institutions (list of participants)
  
• 27 Apr 2010 – 4th telephone conference for MEGAPOLI WP Leaders - 12-14 CET - summary notes are available at MEGAPOLI internal website
• 23 Apr 2010 – invitation for MEGAPOLI for the special issue inquiry - "Impacts of urban pollution on climate system" - news from Frank Wang, Publishing Content Coordinator for Atmospheric Research
  
• 22 Apr 2010 – annoncement - International Conference on Advanced Oxidation Processes, 18-21 Sep 2010 (Kottayam, India); more details at http://www.ceetindia.org/aop2010
  
• 21 Apr 2010 – reminder - 4th telephone conference for MEGAPOLI WP Leaders will be held on 27 Apr 2010, 12-14 CET
  
• 16 Apr 2010 – April 2010 addition of WWRP ENews (the newsletter of the WMO's World Weather Research Programme); more information on the programme can also be found at http://www.wmo.int/thorpex
  
• 13-15 Apr 2010 – MEGAPOLI involvement into the Fast Track Initiative on Megacities and the Coastal Zone
  
• 7 Apr 2010 – MEGAPOLI participates in the Press Programme organised at the EU Pavilion at World Expo 2010 Shanghai on Wednesday 16 June 2010, as part of the EU-China Science and Technology Week, and present project you coordinate within the EU Framework Programme for Research (http://en.expo2010.cn)
  
• 5 Apr 2010 – The Parliament Magazine's Research Review brings you the bigger picture on Europe’s research and innovation developments; Research Review Advertsing
• 4 Apr 2010 – MEGAPOLI exploitation meeting will be 14-15 Jun 2010; the primary aim of the meeting needs to be to build a campaign exploitation and papers strategy, links to other WPs - news from Matthias Beekmann, CNRS-LISA
  
• 31 Mar 2010 – The March 2010 (Issue #35) of the Urban Climate News, the newsletter of the International Association for Urban Climate, is now available from the IAUC (http://www.urban-climate.org)
  
• 29 Mar 2010 – annoncement - Trust Researchers Initiative (http://www.trust-researchers.eu) - What can little Europe do? Scientists must engage with the European Union’s redesign of its research programmes to shore up the continent’s competitive position /Nature, Vol 464, 18 March 2010/
  
• 28 Mar 2010 – annoncement - Training & Education for Turbulence Research via Airborne Data (TETRAD), Hyeres, France, 10-18 September 2010 (http://www.eufar.net/ET)
  
• 26 Mar 2010 – announcement - Air Quality / Climate Change / Energy Efficiency meeting to be held 1718 Jun 2010 (Nuremberg, Germany) - contact Werner.Balzer@stadt.nuernberg.de
  
• 24 Mar 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - MEGAPOLI Campaign Exploitation meeting; main aim - to define the science questions that we will be able to answer; to foster collaborative exploitation work; to define a first series of science papers to be submitted /linked with the national French MEGAPOLI - ANR meeting/ - news from Matthias Beekmann, CNRS-LISA Team
• 20 Mar 2010 – The FP7 Coach  web-site (http://www.fp7coach.eu) - to help (a self-education concept) with preparing and managing projects for the Seventh Framework Programme
• 19 Mar 2010– WP3: Paris Plume Study - proposing workshop (May-June 2010, Paris): overview of scientific questions, series of short texts comprising scientific questions, methodology, data used, participating groups, publications to be delivered - news from Matthias Beekmann, CNRS-LISA Team
  
• 15 Mar 2010 – 6th MEGAPOLI Project NewsLetter (Issue 6, Mar 2010) is published. The expected periodicity : every 3 months (Dec, Mar, Jun, Sep). Contributions from all Partners/ Teams and WorkPackages, as well as Collaborators and Users are welcome. Send your contributions related to activities of the MEGAPOLI and other linked projects, news and announcements to the following e-mail: news.megapoli@dmi.dk (maximum: size of 1 page, 2+ illustration, 3 references). Download/Save MS Word NewsLetters template file.
• 12 Mar 2010 – WP2: Megacity Features - discussions on the Paris surface morphology for modelling purposes - news from Igor Esau, NERSC Team
  
• 5 Mar 2010 – reminder - deadline (5 Apr 2010) to submit abstract for the 9th AMS Urban Symposium (2-6 Aug 2010, Keystone, CO, USA); http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/annual/
  
• 3 Mar 2010 – reminder - send your contributions for the special issue for Atmospheric Environment based on presentations at the Air Quality Conference (Mar 2009, Istanbul, Turkey)
• 1 Mar 2010 – initiation of the Istanbul study on ship emissions and its effects - news from Jaakko Kukkonen (FMI Team) and Selahattin Incecik (Collaborator, ITU, Turkey), and Gertie Geertsema (KNMI, The Netherlands)
  
• 26 Feb 2010 – story about the MEGAPOLI project is broadcasted at the Euronews in the Futuris Pollution slot - "The City and the Sky" (http://www.euronews.net/2010/02/25/the-city-and-the-sky/) - news from Jeremy Wilks, Euronews
• 24-26 Feb 2010 – End-User Workshop "Mesoscale modelling for air pollution applications - achievements and challenges" at WMO in Geneva, Switzerland - organized together with WMO, GURME, COST-728 and MEGAPOLI (contact person - Liisa Jalkanen (LJalkanen@wmo.it), WMO Team) including the following events:
  
• 24 Feb 2010, 09.00 - 12.30 - joint MEGAPOLI + COST-728 members working meeting
• 24 Feb 2010, 13.30 - 16.45 - joint MEGAPOLI, GURME, Near Real-Time Data meeting
  
• 25 Feb 2010, 12.00 - 13.00 - MEGAPOLI Advisory and Steering Board meeting
• WP2 "Urban Features" meeting on the Paris urban morphology, meso-scale and LES modelling, chemistry topics (lead by Igor Esau, NERSC Team)
  
• relevant summary notes on the meetings are placed at the MEGAPOLI internal web-site at http://megapoliforum.dmi.dk
  
• 24 Feb 2010 – joint MEGAPOLI+CityZen+MILAGRO session (oral and poster) is scheduled on 3 May 2010 (08.30-19.00) at the EGU-2010 Annual General Assembly (Vienna, Austria; 2-7 May 2010)
  
• 23 Feb 2010 – WP1: Emissions - TNO signed agreement with AIRPARIF on delivery of the high resolution (1 x 1 km) emission data inventory for city of Paris - news from Hugo van der Gon (TNO Team) and Cecile Honore (AIRPARIF, France)
• 23 Feb 2010 – MEGAPOLI+CityZen+MILAGRO joint meeting is scheduled on 4 May 2010 (10.30-12.00) at the EGU-2010 Annual General Assembly (Vienna, Austria; 2-7 May 2010) - news from Michael Gauss, coordinator of the sister project CityZen
  
• 22 Feb 2010 – MEGAPOLI Mid-Term Assessment reporting - in progress
  
• 19 Feb 2010 – agenda for the final COST-728 Workshop "Mesoscale Modelling for Air Pollution Applications: Achievements and Challenges" to be held jointly with MEGAPOLI and WMO GURME at the WMO, Geneva;  for further information, please see http://www.cost728.org/FinalWorkshop.htm, http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/arep/gaw/Mesoscale_meeting_Feb_2010.html - news from Liisa Jalkanen, WMO Team
  
• 19 Feb 2010 – published report on  Urban Canopy Parameters (info for WP2: Megacity Features) - news from Jason Ching, US EPA, Collaborator
• 18 Feb 2010 – annoncement - conference on "Approaching complexities in Environment and Health" (Brussels, Belgium; 14-15 Apr 2010) aiming to bring together the research community and
  other stakeholders in the area of environmental health, to address the complexities faced in the often multidisciplinary research, and the issues encountered in communicating scientific results to the decision makers (see more details at: http://www.henvinet.eu/) - news from UH-CAIR Team
• 18 Feb 2010 – annoncement of the 4th MEGAPOLI WP leaders telephone conference (to be scheduled for the end Apr 2010)
  
• 18 Feb 2010 – external collaborators from ARPA (Area Meteorologia Ambientale, Bologna, Italy) are willing to join studies using MEGAPOLI high resolution emission inventory database for Po-Valley
• 17 Feb 2010 – 12-14.30 CET - 3rd MEGAPOLI WP Leaders telephone conference (18 persons); discussions on the MEGAPOLI Mid-Term Assessment reporting, WP deliverables and reports, other topics  - summary note are available at internal website
  
• 16 Feb 2010 – annoncement - abstracts submission (til 30 Apr 2010) for the session AW11 "Environmental Meteorology: from local to global" (Convener: S. M. Joffre; Co-Conveners: M. Piringer, A. Baklanov, R. Sokhi, P. Builtjes) scheduled at the 10th EMS / 8th ECAC (Zurich, Switzerland; 13-17 Sep 2010)
• 15 Feb 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - last official day of the MEGAPOLI Winter Campaign!
• 15 Feb 2010 – WP1: Emissions - discussions on the global emission data - initiated by Hugo van der Gon, TNO Team - see moire details at internal web-site
  
• 10 Feb 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - weekly science seminar for the MEGAPOLI Paris winter campaign (presentations are available at internal web-site)
• 9 Feb 2010 – preparations for the MEGAPOLI Mid-Term Assessment (Mar 2010), management, financial, and dissemination reporting to EC - have started - news from MEGAPOLI Project Office
• 8 Feb 2010 – MEGAPOLI WP Leaders telephone conference is scheduled on 17 Feb 2010, 12-14 CET; draft agenda had been distributed for comments and suggestions
• 8 Feb 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - making reportage (interviews with researches and visits to the measurement sites both stationary and mobile) about the MEGAPOLI Paris winter 2010 campaign by Jeremy Wilks, EURONEWS
• 8-10 Feb 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - participation of Alexander Baklanov (DMI Team) in assisting to Paris winter campaign coordination and forecasting
• 5 Feb 2010 – WP4: Megacity Air Quality - finalization of WP deliverables on evaluation of zooming approaches describing multiscale physical processes and multiscale chemical transformations; discussions on contrributions from other WPs - Nicolas Moussiopoulos, AUTH Team
  
• 4 Feb 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - visit to suburban site/ airfield - Piper Aztec aircraft, SAFIRE Team
• 4 Feb 2010 – WP2: Megacity Feature - discussions on urban morphology for the Paris metropolitan area - Antti Hellsten, FMI Team
• 3 Feb 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - weekly seminar for the MEGAPOLI Paris winter campaign (presentations are available at internal web-site)
• 3 Feb 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - visit to urban measurement site LHVP (CNRS-LSCE+LISA, IfT, others and collaborator teams)
• 2 Feb 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - visit to suburban measurement site SIRTA (CNRS-LISA,  PSI, IfT, FORTH, SIRTA, others and collaborator teams)
• 1 Feb 2010 – WP2: Urban Features -  arrangement of the meeting on the Paris urban morphology, meso-scale and LES modelling, chemistry topics during the End-User Workshop at WMO in Geneva, Switzerland - news from Igor Esau, NERSC Team
• 31 Jan 2010 – WP2: Megacity Features - discussions on urban morphology for the Paris metropolitan area, mesoscale and LES modelling, chemistry topics (to be discussed in more details during the End-User Workshop "Mesoscale modelling for air pollution applications - achievements and challenges" at WMO in Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 Feb 2010) - Igor Esau, NERSC Team
  
• 30 Jan - 5 Feb 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - participation of Alexander Mahura (DMI Team) in assisting to Paris winter campaign coordination and forecasting
• 29 Jan 2010 – planning for Euronews report for the MEGAPOLI Paris winter campaign - Jeremy Wilks, EURONEWS
  
• 27 Jan 2010 – reminder - End-User Workshop "Mesoscale modelling for air pollution applications - achievements and challenges" at WMO in Geneva, Switzerland will be held during 25-26 Feb 2010, at WMO in Geneva, Switzerland
• 27 Jan 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - weekly seminar for the MEGAPOLI Paris winter campaign (presentations are available at internal web-site)
  
• 26 Jan 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news 15
  
• 25 Jan 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news 14
• 24 Jan 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news 13
• 24 Jan 2010 – announcement - 3rd International Workshop on Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas Inventories; 22-24 Sep 2010, Lviv, Ukraine (see more details at http://ghg.org.ua/); deadline for abstracts submission  - 1 Apr 2010; Jochen Theloke (USTUTT Team) will present the MEGAPOLI Project at the workshop
  
• 23 Jan 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news 12
• 22 Jan 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - weekly seminar for the MEGAPOLI Paris winter campaign (presentations are available at internal web-site)
• 22 Jan 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news 11
• 22 Jan 2010 – our sister project EC FP7 CityZen has new web-site address: http://www.cityzen-project.eu/
  
• 21 Jan 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news 10
• 21 Jan 2010 – annoncement for the next  (mid Feb 2010) MEGAPOLI WP Leaders telephone conference - news from MEGAPOLI Project Office
  
• 20 Jan 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news 9
  
• 20 Jan 2010 – MEGAPOLI to be included in the catalogue of projects relevant to environment and health research - news from Tuomo Karjalainen (EC Research Directorate General, Environment)
• 19 Jan 2010 – TRanscontinental Observations Into the Chemistry of the Atmosphere  (TROICA) experiments results are available - news from Nikolay Elanskiy (MEGAPOLIS daughter project)
• 19 Jan 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news 7
  
• 18 Jan 2010 – coming soon - FP7 Project Development course (22-23 Mar 2010, Budapest, Hungary)
• 18 Jan 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news 6
• 17 Jan 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news 5
• 16 Jan 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news 4
  
• 15 Jan 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news 3 - first official day of the MEGAPOLI Winter Campaign!
• 14 Jan 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - winter campaign kick-off meeting (Paris, France) at the CNRS-LHVP with attendance of PIs from CNRS and other groups - questions discussed: overview of all measurements to be done at different sites; web-site of the Paris campaign (http://megapoli.lisa.univ-paris12.fr); coordination; forecasts (http://megapoli.lisa.univ-paris12.fr/FORECASTS_PREVAIR/forecasts.php); alert procedure (http://megapoli.lisa.univ-paris12.fr/NEWS/alert.php); welcome new participants, update telephone and e-mail lists
• 13 Jan 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - list and links to web-sites with relevant information and forecasts for chemistry (LISA / based on PREVAIR forecast, MEGAPOLI specific, back-up; PREVAIR; AIRPARIF; Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique) and meteorology (METEO FRANCE; METEOCIEL (GSF, multimodel); Laboratoire de Météorologie (Paris Ile de France specific); Weather forecasts from several models with focus on expert maps, including ensemble forecast, frontal analysis; Cloud animation, animation, tape visible and infrared; Real time precipitation by radar including 3 h forecast ) to be used during ther MEGAPOLI Winter Campaign are distributed (see details) - news from Matthias Beekmann (CNRS-LISA Team)
• 12 Jan 2010 – reminder - abstract submission til 1 Feb 2010 for the Conference on Urban Environmental Pollution - UEP 2010 - Overcoming Obstacles to Sustainability and Quality of Life (20-23 Jun 2010, Boston, USA); http://www.uep2010.com/
  
• 8 Jan 2010 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - invitation of PIs from CNRS and other research groups to attend the kick-off-meeting of the Paris Winter Campaign - news from Matthias Beekmann (CNRS-LISA Team)
  
• 4 Jan 2010 – discussions on running LES for the Paris Summer Campaign (Jul 2009) - news from Igor Esau (NERSC Team)
  
• 2 Jan 2010 – Urban Climate News ( Issue 34, Dec 2009) is now available from the IAUC website: http://www.urban-climate.org
  

• 24 Dec 2009 – Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2010 !!!
  

• 30 Dec 2009 – MEGAPOLI dissemination reporting - First Year MEGAPOLI Dissemination Report (MEGAPOLI Deliverable 9.4.1); MEGAPOLI Scientific Report 09-03, MEGAPOLI-03-REP-2009-12, 64p.
• 29 Dec 2009 – Po Valley emissions are ready and can be downloaded from ftp-site - contact Sandro Finardi (ARIANET Team), s.finardi@aria-net.it
  
• 21 Dec 2009 – reminder - 10th Urban Environment Symposium to be held in Gothenburg, Sweden during 9-11 Jun 2010. The symposium is broad in scope and covers all aspects of the urban environment and it will provide a forum for recent research and development within a broad range of topics related to the urban environment
• 18 Dec 2009 – announcement - 10th Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society (EMS) and the 8th European Conference on Applied Climatology (ECAC). These meetings will take place 13-17 Sep 2010 in Zürich, Switzerland; http://www.ems2010.ch - a detailed session programme will become available in mid-Feb 2010 at http://meetings.copernicus.org/ems2010; abstract submission deadline: 30 Apr 2010
  
• 15 Dec 2009 – national (Chile) partner project comparing emissions and megacity impacts (with a focus on estimation of regiuonal influence of Santiago on air quality) collaborates with MEGAPOLI - news from Marcelo Mena
• 12 Dec 2009 – announcement - deadline for abstract submission 1 Feb 2010 for the 31st NATO/SPS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Applications (27 Sep - 1 Oct 2010, Torino, Italy)
• 10 Dec 2009 – coming soon - FP7 Financial and Management course (25-26 Feb 2010, Budapest, Hungary)
  
• 9 Dec 2009 – BIFERNO Project (http://www.meteodiffusivita.enea.it/index.html), ENEA (Rome, Italy) is willing to collaborate with MEGAPOLI Project on new possible project on air quality for Rome - news from Maria C. Mammarella
  
• 8 Dec 2009 – WP5: Regional and Global Atmospheric Composition - collaborators of the MEGAPOLIS daughter project are willing to participate in studies of forest fire effects on Moscow (and other cities) air pollution
• 7-18 Dec 2009 – openning and working days of the COP-15 United Nations Climate Change Conference (7-18 Dec 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark) - presentation of the MEGAPOLI Project by Jens H. Christensen, DMI Team
• 6 Dec 2009 – Technion R&D (http://envexp.technion.ac.il), Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty (Haifa, Israel) is willing to collaborate with MEGAPOLI Project - news from David Broday
  
• 5 Dec 2009 – 5th MEGAPOLI Project NewsLetter (Issue 5, Dec 2009) is published. The expected periodicity : every 3 months (Dec, Mar, Jun, Sep). Contributions from all Partners/ Teams and WorkPackages, as well as Collaborators and Users are welcome. Send your contributions related to activities of the MEGAPOLI and other linked projects, news and announcements to the following e-mail: news.megapoli@dmi.dk (maximum: size of 1 page, 2+ illustration, 3 references). Download/Save MS Word NewsLetters template file.
• 4 Dec 2009 – welcome to PhD student Zadie Stock, who has started working on the MEGAPOLI project - news from Maria Russo, UCam Team
  
• 2 Dec 2009 – arrangement/ sharing of the MEGAPOLI Scientific Reports (for the 2nd year listed deliverables) proof-reading before submission to EC between the DMI, MPIC, and FORTH Teams
  
• 1 Dec 2009 – MEGAPOLI dissemination reporting - in progress
  
• 30 Nov 2009 – reminder - deadline 15 Dec 2009 for submission of short abstracts for the 13th International Conference on "Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes" (1-4 Jun 2010, Paris, France) is approaching; http://www.harmo.org/harmo13
• 30 Nov 2009 – MEGAPOLI management reporting for the 1st year - available at internal web-site (http://megapoliforum.dmi.dk) only for MEGAPOLI partners
  
• 28 Nov 2009 – 1st NewsLetter of the (sustainaBle uRban plannIng Decision support accountinG for urban mEtabolism) BRIDGE project aiming at incorporating sustainability aspects in urban
   planning processes, accounting for some well recognised relations between  urban metabolism and urban structure - on behalf of the BRIDGE project, Katsiabani Katerina, kkatsiam@phys.uoa.gr
  
• 26-27 Nov 2009 – MEGAPOLI Intercomparison Workshop (WP3: Paris Plume Study) in Leipzig, Germany (Institute for Tropospheric Research, IfT) - discussions on Jul 2009 Paris Campaign: presentations of the intercomparisons within each instrument group (AMS; SMPS/FMPS; APS/OPC; MAAP/PSAP/aethalometer; gases) and a longterm intercomparison between the MPI stationary and mobile measurements; instrument intercomparison results and conclusions what have learned from the intercomparison activities - news from Andres Held, IfT Team
• 25 Nov 2009 – MEGAPOLI US Collaborators are welcome for a new US NASA LCLUC call for proposals with one of the focuses on the urban land use change effects - contact with Garik Gutman (NOAA, USA), Garik.Gutman@noaa.gov
  
• 23 Nov 2009 – WP5: Regional and Global Atmospheric Composition - preparations on regional modelling ensemble setup, ftp-transfer, boundary conditions, and fire emissions - news from Mikhail Sofiev, FMI Team
  
• 20 Nov 2009 – Russian MEGAPOLIS project (daughter project of the MEGAPOLI) has published www-report-summary on the outcome of the 1st Annual MEGAPOLI Meeting held in Copenagen, Denmark during 24-25 Sep 2009, and the signing of the joint memorandum on collaboration between two projects
  
• 18 Nov 2009 – feulleton on the MEGAPOLI summer 2009 campaign (airborne part) on the French TV (France 2, at 13 pm, http://jt.france2.fr/20h/) - news from Mattias Beekmann, CNRS Team
  
• 17 Nov 2009 – annoncement - deadline for abstract submission 18 Jan 2010 for the EGU-2010 Annual General Assembbly (May 2010, Vienna, Austria), joint MILAGRO, CityZen, and MEGAPOLI session "Megacities: Air Quality and Climate Impacts from  Local to Global Scales";  Convener: L.T. Molina,  Co-Conveners: M. Gauss, A. Baklanov
  
• 16 Nov 2009 – annoncement - deadline for abstract submission 31 Jan 2010 for the 5th ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models (31 May - 11 Jun 2010, Trieste, Italy) with the focus mostly on the regional climate modelling (RegCM) applications and the release of the next version of the model (RegCM4) - news from Filippo Giorgi, ICTP Team
  
• 15 Nov 2009 – coming in 2010 - A&WMA International Specialty Conference "Leapfrogging Opportunities for Air Quality Improvement", 10-14 May 2010, Xian, Shaanxi Province, China
  
• 13 Nov 2009 – overview presentation on several activities ongoing in Europe including MEGAPOLI project presentation at the FAIRMODE meeting (Ispra, Italy) - news from Martijn Schaap, TNO Team
  
• 12 Nov 2009 – ACCENT Synthesis has been published as a special issue of Atmospheric Environment: Vol 43 (33), Oct 2009 - news from ACCENT Project Office
  
• 11 Nov 2009 – Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES, Boulder, CO, USA) is willing to collaborate with MEGAPOLI on studies of urban expansion as a contributor to climate change - news from Daniel Ziskin, NOAA, USA
  
• 10-11 Nov 2009 – MEGAPOLI project presentation at the International Workshop on "Global Climate Change and Mechanisms of  Adaptation to it"  (Moscow, Russia) by Wolfram Shrimpf (EC Scientific Officer of the MEGAPOLI project) and by Alexander Baklanov, DMI Team; and discussions with the collaborative daugther project MEGAPOLIS (Russia)
• 9 Nov 2009 – annoncement - deadline for abstract submission 15 Jan 2010 for the 11th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology (Edinburgh, Scotland, 12-16 July 2010); Topics include - Techniques for multimodel ensembles; Understanding recent climate change and predicting the nearterm future; Extreme events; Predictions of climate change relevant for impacts; Reconstructing and understanding climate change over the Holocene; Statistical methods for climate data
  
• 7 Nov 2009 – MEGAPOLI "Megacity in Focus: London" relevant papers can be considered for the Atmosperic Chemistry and Physics, ACP Journal, Special Issue is in preparation: "Atmospheric chemistry and physics in the atmosphere of a developed megacity (London): the results of the REPARTEE experiments", Editor(s): W. T. Sturges, R. M. Harrison, and E. Nemitz
  
• 6 Nov 2009 – discussion on evaluation of the ship trafic emissions for Istanbul, Turkey using the AIS system for shipping emissions in the Bosphorus Passage - news from FMI Team and Selahattin Incecik, Turkey, Collaborator
• 5 Nov 2009 – involvement of the PhD student from Luxemburg to join the MEGAPOLI related study employing WRF-Chem - news from Georg Grell, USA, Collaborator
  
• 4 Nov 2009 – planning of the special session at the EMS-2010 Annual Meeting (Sep 2010, Zurich, Switzerland) relevant to the integrated scale approach from local to global in the spirit of the MEGAPOLI Project and linked with specific milestones/ deliverables of the project
  
• 3 Nov 2009 – MEGAPOLI Collaborators Alberto Martilli (Spain) and Reiner Schmitz (Univ Santiago, Chile) are involved into validation studies for Paris (France) using building effect parametrization module
• 2-4 Nov 2009 – International Workshop on Atmospheric Composition Changes: Climate-Chemistry Interactions (Lecce, Italy, 2 - 4 Nov 2009); Topics: Emissions; Photochemistry; Aerosol; Satellite remote sensing of air quality in cities; General circulation and regional climate models; Parametrization of cloud microphysics/ dynamics/ radiation in models; Dynamics and aerosol radiative effects; Regional climate; Air quality modelling
  
• 2 Nov 2009 – Newsletter EU Research for the Environment (Issue 6, Nov 2009) - published
  
• 1 Nov 2009 – MEGAPOLI 1st year management and dissemination reporting - in progress
  
• 29 Oct 2009 – MEGAPOLI collaborators, e.g. participants from Paris July 2009 Campaign are willing to run models for Paris study using the MEGAPOLI TNO developed emission database (Use reference: Denier van der Gon, H.A.C., A.J.H.Visschedijk , H van der Brugh and R.Droge, A High Resolution Gridded European Emission Database for the year 2005, TNO-report 2009)
  
• 28 Oct 2009 – MEGAPOLI project relevant presentations from the DMI, CNRS, UH-CAIR, and UHam Teams at the AW11 Session "Environmental Meteorology (from local to global)" at the European Meteorological Society (EMS-2009) Annual Meeting, 28 Sep – 2 Oct 2009, Toulouse, France - are accessible online at http://www.emetsoc.org/annual_meetings/presentations_2009.php
• 27 Oct 2009 – abstracts deadline - 30 Nov 2009 - for the 10th Urban Environment Symposium to be held in Gothenburg, Sweden during 9-11 June 2010. The symposium is broad in scope and covers all aspects of the urban environment. The upcoming Symposium will provide a forum for recent research and development within a broad range of topics related to the urban environment. Abstract submissions for oral or poster presentations are welcomed on any of the following topics: Air and noise pollution; Contaminated soils and waters; Transport and mobility; Greenhouse gases and climate change; Resources and urban ecology; Land use and spatial planning (see details at http://www.hues.se)
  
• 26 Oct 2009 – MEGAPOLI Collaborators from Spain and Chile discuss possibilities to perform meteorological and air quality simulations (WRF + Building Effect Parametrization, BEP module and chemistry included) based on the Paris measurements - news from Alberto Martilli, CIEMAT
  
• 25 Oct 2009 – End-User Workshop at WMO in Geneva, Switzerland will be held during 25-26 Feb 2010 - organized together with WMO, GURME, COST-728 and MEGAPOLI in cooperation with CityZen, COST ES602, ACCENT, and MACC Projects - contact Liisa Jalkanen, WMO Team
• 22 Oct 2009 – MEGAPOLI Paris Intercomparison workshop (Nov 2009) - on-going discussions for intercomparison (at airport, LHVP, SIRTA, etc.) - news from Aurelie Columb, CNRS-LaMP
• 19 Oct 2009 – MEGAPOLI Partners, please, use the http://megapoliforum.dmi.dk web-site (contact with MEGAPOLI manager to obtain access info)
• 18 Oct 2009 – MEGAPOLI Collaborators, please, use the http://www.nilu.no/pip/ web-site (contact with WPs leaders of corresponding WPs you are involved in order to obtain access info)
  
• 16 Oct 2009 – almost 400 readers/users are listed for distribution of the MEGAPOLI quarterly newsletters
  
• 13 Oct 2009 – COST/MEGAPOLI Model Inventory has recently been upgraded to a new and improved version; http://www.mi.uni-hamburg.de/costmodin; apart from the improved user interface the most important new feature is the ability to create custom summary tables to compare a custom set of models by another custom set of qualities - news from Heinke Schluenzen, UHam Team
  
• 10 Oct 2009 – REMINDER: Dear MEGAPOLI Partners, please, do not forget to write a sentence in your publications with the following statement: “The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme FP/2007-2011 under grant agreement n°212520”(following MEGAPOLI Grant Agreement, page 29)
  
• 8 Oct 2009 – abstracts deadline for the 2010 AAAR Air Pollution and Health: Bridging the Gap from Sources to Health Outcomes International Specialty Conference has been extended until 9 Nov 2009; http://aaar.2010specialty.org/
  
• 7 Oct 2009 – WP1: Emissions - discussions on studying the ship traffic emissions at finer scales and greater details in the Bosporus Strait and Istanbul, Turkey using the Automatic Identification System (AIS) messages; ACPD paper - news from Jukka-Pekka Jalkanen, FMI Team
• 5 Oct 2009 – announcement - 3rd FP7 Untold Stories (Budapest, Hungary, 3-4 Dec 2009) - 2-day conference to learn more about the tricks and techniques of successful FP7 projects management, to learn from others' experiences and to network with other researchers and project managers all over Europe; http://www.fp7untoldstories.com
  
• 3 Oct 2009 – Sep 2009 issue of the Urban Climate News - featuring a special report on ICUC-7 - is now available from the IAUC webpage: www.urban-climate.org
• 2 Oct 2009 – announcement - 10th European Meteorological Society (EMS-2010) Annual Meeting and 8th European Conference on Applied Climatology (ECAC) will be held in Zurich, Switzerland during 13-17 Sep 2010; the conference will be organized jointly by the Schweizerische Meteorologische Gesellschaft, the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science (IACETH) at ETH Zurich, MeteoSwiss and the European Meteorological Society; http://meetings.copernicus.org/ems2010/
  
• 1 Oct 2009 – final contributions from MGEAPOLI WP and Team leaders for the 1st year annual management reporting are accepted
  
• 30 Sep 2009 – young researcher is joining the MEGAPOLI UHam team starting Dec 2009 - news from Heinke Schluenzen, UHam Team
  
• 30 Sep 2009 – MEGAPOLI project relevant presentations from DMI, CNRS, UH-CAIR, and UHam Teams at the AW11 Session "Environmental Meteorology (from local to global)" at the European Meteorological Society (EMS-2009) Annual Meeting, 28 Sep – 2 Oct 2009, Toulouse, France
• 26 Sep 2009 – following 1st MEGAPOLI Annual Meeting outcome of discussions the summary (parameters, boundary conditions, etc.) on setup of the MEGAPOLI regional simulations (ensemble, European, nested regional) had been finalized for WP5: Regional and global atmospheric composition; contributions from partners involved are expected till 1 Nov 2009 - news from Mikhail Sofiev, FMI Team
• 26 Sep 2009 – reporting on the 1st year MEGAPOLI Deliverables (WP1 and WP6) and well as annual management reporting - is in progress
  
• 24-25 Sep 2009 – 1st year annual meeting of the MEGAPOLI Project - Copenhagen, Denmark (Danish Meteorological Institute, DMI):
  
• attended in total - 65 persons; from 31 Research Institutions/ Organizations; from Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, UK, USA;
• 24 MEGAPOLI WPs1-9 and Megacities in Focus presentations reporting the 1st year results, and FP7 EC PBL-PMES and by Russian partners of MEGAPOLIS;
• Discussions in groups: WP3 – Paris Plume Study – Winter 2010 Campaign (lead by Matthias Beekmann, CNRS); WP8 – Mitigation, Policy Options, and Impact Assessment (lead by Jochen Theloke, USTUTT); and discussions in thematic groups on different scale studies: Local – lead by Alexander Baklanov (DMI); Regional – lead by Spyros Pandis (FORTH); and Global – led by Mark Lawrence (MPIC) - followed by summary presentations on discussions;
• 1st year MEGAPOLI reporting (WPs deliverables, milestones, dissemination, etc); and 2nd year MEGAPOLI plans; discussions; brief summary of the meeting (presentations are available for MEGAPOLI partners at megapoliforum.dmi.dk)
  
• 23 Sep 2009 – discussions on plans for the MEGAPOLI Winter 2010 Campaign (WP3: Paris Plume Study) continued - news from CNRS Teams, collaborators, and volunteers
• 22 Sep 2009 – MEGAPOLI Intercomparison Workshop (WP3: Paris Plume Study) - discussions on Jul 2009 Paris Campaign - is scheduled for 26-27 Nov 2009 in Leipzig, Germany (Institute for Tropospheric Research, IfT) - contact Andres Held (held@tropos.de), IfT Team
• 21 Sep 2009 – final agenda of the MEGAPOLI 1st Annual Meeting (will be held in Danish Meteorological Institute, during 24-25 Sep 2009; Copenhagen, Denmark) had been distributed; more than 60 participants (partners and collaborators) will attend the meeting
  
• 17 Sep 2009 – 4th MEGAPOLI Project NewsLetter (Issue 4, Sep 2009) is published. The expected periodicity : every 3 months (Dec, Mar, Jun, Sep). Contributions from all Partners/ Teams and WorkPackages, as well as Collaborators and Users are welcome. Send your contributions related to activities of the MEGAPOLI and other linked projects, news and announcements to the following e-mail: news.megapoli@dmi.dk (maximum: size of 1 page, 2+ illustration, 3 references). Download/Save MS Word NewsLetters template file.
• 16 Sep 2009 – Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA)  is willing to join collaboration with MEGAPOLI on topics of chemical modelling on urban and local scales and comparison with measurements of the Paris campaign - news from Dr. Richard Ramaroson
• 16 Sep 2009 – WP1: Emissions - AIRPARIF (France) contacts with TNO Team on high resolution emission inventory for potential users and researches (commitment letter)
  
• 15 Sep 2009 – International Workshop on the Locale Air Quality and its Interactions with Vegetation (will be held in Antwerp, Belgium, 21-22 Jan 2010);  http://www.vito.be/aq-vegetation-workshop; topics of interest are plant-atmosphere  interactions in urban areas, assessments of local air quality and  vegetation interactions, and model implementation of plant-atmosphere interactions - Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 Sep 2009
• 14 Sep 2009 – a special issue for Atmospheric Environment based on presentation at the Air Quality Conference (Mar 2009, Istanbul, Turkey) during the sessions "Air quality and climate/meteorology interactions and feedback" and "Chemical weather forecasting" is in preparation; the subject of issue is integrated modelling and air quality - climate/meteorology interactions
  
• 12 Sep 2009 – ACCENT (http://www.accent-network.org), The European Network of Excellence on Atmospheric Composition Change, is organising a Symposium on Air Pollution - Climate Interactions Contribution to European Policy Development (will be held in Brussels, Belgium, 3-4 Nov 2009); will focus on the relevance of atmospheric composition change on climate, ecosystems, and air pollution, on observations and measurements, on education, and on future policy directions and emerging research issues; registration before 2 Oct 2009 at http://www.uniurb.it/SA/AccentSymposium/registration; contact coordinator - Sandro Fuzzi, project.office@accent-network.org
  
• 9 Sep 2009 – discussion of special session for MEGAPOLI at the 13th International Conference on Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes, HARMO13 (will be held in Paris, France, 1-4 Jun 2010); http://www.harmo.org/harmo13; is natural forum for discussing modelling issues related to the European Union air quality directives - Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 Nov 2009
• 6 Sep 2009 – International Workshop on Air Quality Forecasting Research (will be held in Boulder, Colorado, USA); http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/csd/events/iwaqfr/venue.html
  
• 3 Sep 2009 – FAIRMODE (Forum for AIR  quality MOdelling in Europe) - intended to promote and  facilitate the use of models as well as to increase their robustness  for the  implementation of the air quality directives; http://fairmode.ew.eea.europa.eu/
  
• 2 Sep 2009 – Urban Environmental Pollution UEP 2010: Overcoming Obstacles to Sustainability and Quality of Life (will be held in Boston, MA, USA, 20-23 Jun 2010); http://www.uep2010.com; will focus on the latest information about urban pollution problems and what measures can be taken to overcome obstacles to sustainability and life quality - Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 Feb 2010
• 30 Aug 2009 – 2nd International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Islands, SICCUHI (will be held in Berkeley, CA, USA, 21-23 Sep 2009); http://heatisland2009.lbl.gov/; is devoted to the science, engineering and public policies to help relieve the excess heat and air pollution of summers in hot cities
• 28 Aug 2009 – International Conference on Energy, Environment and Health, CEEH (will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, 27-29 Jan 2010); http://ceeh.dmu.dk; aim of the conference is to bring together scientists from different research fields related to future energy scenarios and the consequences for health, environment, climate change and economy; focus will be on interdisciplinary support systems for assessment of future energy production and consumption, including direct and indirect costs - Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 Oct 2009
• 26 Aug 2009 – 10th Urban Environment Symposium - Urban Futures for a Sustainable World (will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, 9-11 Jun 2010); http://www.hues.se; topics of interest are air and noise pollution, contaminated soils and waters, transport and mobility, greenhouse gases and climate change, resources and urban ecology, land use and spatial planning - Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 Nov 2009
  
• 24 Aug 2009 – coming soon – WP3: Paris Plume Study - MEGAPOLI Intercomparison Workshop: 2-day workshop to discuss and integrate the intercomparison activities of the summer field campaign in Paris - to be held in the Institute for Tropospheric Research (IfT), Leipzig, Germany during 15-16 Oct 2009 - info from Andres Held, IfT Team (confirm your participation)
  
• 24 Aug 2009 – contributions from MEGAPOLI WPs and Teams Leaders are requested for the MEGAPOLI Management and Dissemination reporting to EC
  
• 21 Aug 2009 – 15th Session of the WMO Commission for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS-XV) will be held in Incheon (near Seoul), South Korea, 18-25 Nov 2009; CAS XV will be preceded by a Technical Conference 16-17 Nov 2009 entitled "Environmental Prediction in the Next Decade: Weather, Climate, Water and the Air We Breathe" (details for both are at http://www.wmo.int/cas)
  
• 20 Aug 2009 – continue discussions on procedure, timetable and type of data regarding city scenario input to modellers, revising the interview protocol to second and third level city contact persons - by Dick van den Hout, TNO Team
  
• 17 Aug 2009 – WP5: Regional and Global Atmospheric Composition - discussions on emissions, episodic and long-term simulations, etc.- by Jaakko Kukkonen, FMI Team
• 14 Aug 2009 – initial description of the aims, objectives, tasks for the MEGAPOLIS (daughter Russian project of EC FP7 MEGAPOLI) - info from Acad. Valery Bondur (AEROCOSMOS); description of this project for the MEGAPOLI NewsLetter n4 is expected
  
• 13 Aug 2009 – call for the next General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU 2010) to be held in the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) from 2-7 May 2010 - closing date for Session Proposals (http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/egu2010/provisionalprogramme) is 14 Sep 2009
  
• 13 Aug 2009 – WP2: Megacity Features - discussions on meso- and large-scale meteorology modelling - initiated by Igor Esau, NERSC Team
  
• 12 Aug 2009 – drafting of the MEGAPOLI Management and Dissemination reporting to EC had started following http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/find-doc_en.html#guidance (and according to the guidance notes on project reporting)
  
• 10 Aug 2009 – as of today, more than 50 participants registered to attend the 1st Annual MEGAPOLI Meeting (to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, during 24-25 Sep 2009)
  
• 7 Aug 2009 – WP4: Megacity Air Quality - request for interest in exposure estimates (questionnaire) - by Jaakko Kukkonen, FMI Team
• 6 Aug 2009 – WP4: Megacity Air Quality -  discussion on modelling runs with SILAM and SALSA - by Jaakko Kukkonen, FMI Team
• 6 Aug 2009 – WP4: Megacity Air Quality - discussion on modelling runs with WRF-CMAQ and OSCAR (request to Task Leaders) - by Ranjeet Sokhi, UH-CAIR Team
• 5 Aug 2009 – progress reporting on WP7: Integrated Tools and Implementation - by Ranjeet Sokhi, UH-CAIR Team
• 4 Aug 2009 – coming soon - abstract submission (http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/) until 3 Sep 2009 for session B22 "Urban Areas and Global Change" at AGU Fall 2009 meeting in San Francisco, California, USA (14-18 Dec 2009)
• 4 Aug 2009 – coming soon - ACCENT, The European Network of Excellence on Atmospheric Composition Change, is organising a Symposium on "Air Pollution - Climate Interactions Contribution to European Policy Development", 3-4 Nov 2009, Brussels, Belgium (hosted by the European Commission - Directorate General for Research), Registration at: http://www.uniurb.it/SA/AccentSymposium/registration, Deadline - 2 Oct 2009; for additional information, please, contact ACCENT PROJECT OFFICE  - project.office@accent-network.org
  
• 1 Aug 2009 – coming soon - Urban Climate Session on Local, regional and global impacts" at the forthcoming Association of American Geographers (AAG) meeting, Spring  2010, Washington, DC, USA; abstract and session submission for AAG will begin on 10 Aug 2009 (more information can be found at: http://www.aag.org/)
  
• 31 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - propositions from Institute of Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France) for involvement into Winter 2010 Paris Campaign (objectives, measurements) - initiated by Dr. Martial Haeffelin, IPSL
  
• 31 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - Official last day of the Paris Summer 2009 Campaign at 20.00 of local time (official web-site: http://megapoli.lisa.univ-paris12.fr/GENERAL/general.php)
• 31 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Sunny to partly cloudy, plume in NW sector
• 31 Jul 2009 – progress reporting on WP4: Megacity Air Quality - by John Douros, AUTH Team
• 30 Jul 2009 – MEGAPOLI WP Leaders teleconference - 14.00+ pm (12.00 UTC) - participated 16 persons - discussed: brief info from coordinators, review of current progress on WPs and deliverables of the 1st year, plan/agenda for the 1st year meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark (24-25 Sep 2009), plans for the 1st year report on management and dissemination), overview and status of publications, conference presentations, etc., collaboration with CityZen, MEGAPOLIS, GURME, COST, JRC EDGAR, etc.- details are available as notes on the MEGAPOLI internal web-site
  
• 30 Jul 2009 – reporting on DMI Team progress (for involved WPs) by Alexander Baklanov
• 30 Jul 2009 – reporting on ARIANET Team progress (for involved WPs) by Sandro Finardi
• 30 Jul 2009 – progress reporting on WP5: Regional and Global Atmospheric Composition - by Jaakko Kukkonen, FMI Team
• 30 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Today intercomparison at airport, tomorrow sunny with cirrus
• 29 Jul 2009 – progress reporting on WP2: Megacity Features - by Sue Grimmond, KCL Team and Igor Esau, NERSC Team
• 29 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Wednesday flight intension for N sector, sunny with cirrus
• 28 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Tuesday flight for NE sector, Wednesday flight intension for N sector
  
• 27 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Tuesday flight intention for NE sector, Wednesday for N sector
• 27 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - Danish newpaper "Ingenioren" informs about the MEGAPOLI and Paris Campaign - "Usædvanligt mange partikler bliver dannet af gasser over storbyer" (in Danish) - by Robin Engelhardt
• 26 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Today sunny weather with plume in northern sector
  
• 25 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Flight today into eastern sector, Sunday sunny weather with southerly winds
• 25 Jul 2009 – coming soon - book "Air Pollution: Health and Environmental Impacts" (Foreword by Nobel Laureate Prof. Mario J. Molina) is under publication at CRC Press (Taylor & Francis, USA) and scheduled to be released on 25 Feb 2010; more details are available at: http://www.routledge.com/books/Air-Pollution-isbn9781439809624 - information from MEGAPOLI Collaborator - Bhola Gurjar (ITR, India)
  
• 24 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Intercomparison exercises today at LHVP, tomorrow flight to Eastern sector
  
• 23 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Intercomparison exercises today at Sirta
  
• 22 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Intercomparison exercises today and tomorrow
  
• 21 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Flight for Tuesday Northerly sector
• 20 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - MEGAPOLI Paris Campaign was on television, Monday, FR3 regional  Ile de France journal 19 h:
  http://jt.france3.fr/regions/popup.php?id=b92a_1920&video_number=0
• 20 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - Flight for Monday confirmed and flight intention for Tuesday
  
• 19 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - MEGAPOLI Paris Campaign was on television, Sunday, TF1 journal at 20 h :
  http://videos.tf1.fr/jt-we/une-campagne-pour-mesure-la-pollution-de-l-air-4478141.html
• 19 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Flight intention for Monday and Tuesday
  
• 18 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Flight intention on Monday, low pollution levels for WE
  
• 17 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Low pollution levels for next 3 days
• mid Jul 2009 – discussions on activating more communication between MEGAPOLI WPs and participants through the MEGAPOLI internal web-site / forum and telephone conferences, and for MEGAPOLI collaborators through the NILU pip web-site
  
• 16 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Thursday flight in N sector
• 16 Jul 2009 – WP1: Emissions - reporting status on MEGAPOLI emissions map for base year 2005 (access to database is through the TNO ftp site) - contact with Hugo Denier van der Gon (TNO Team)
• 15 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Wednesday flight confirmed, Thursday flight intention confirmed
• 15 Jul 2009 – coming soon - 2010 AMS Annual Meeting, 17-21 Jan 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (http://www.ametsoc.org/MEET/annual/index.html); main theme of the meeting is "Weather, Climate, and Society: New Demands on Science and Services"
  
• 14 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Wednesday flight confirmed, flight intention for Thursday
• 13 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Monday flight confirmed, flight intention for Wednesday
  
• 12 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Monday flight maintained, no flight for Tuesday
  
• 11 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: No flight until Monday, intercomparison at the airport, Flight for today OK, no flight Saturday and Sunday
• 11 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - DMI Team has started to provide the Enviro-HIRLAM (at 15 and 5 km horiz resolutions) model forecasts of main meteorological variables and chemical species through the MEGAPOLI internal web-site
  
• 10 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Flight for today OK, no flight Saturday and Sunday
• 9 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Flight intentions for Friday and Saturday
• 8 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Flight intentions for Thursday and Friday
• 7 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Flight intention for Wednesday confirmed, Flight intention for Thursday given
• 7 Jul 2009 –  coming soon – ACCENT/GLOREAM 2009 Workshop on tropospheric chemical transport modelling, 26-27 Nov 2009, Brescia, Italy. The aim of workshop is to investigate the processes and phenomena which determine the chemical composition of the troposphere by means of advanced and integrated modelling, both on regional (over Europe) and global scale; http://automatica.ing.unibs.it/gloream/index.html
  
• 6 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - CNRS Press-Release (in French) / Communiqué de Presse CNRS - Pollution de l'air en milieu urbain : une vaste campagne de mesures commence en Île-de-France
  
• 6 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: Flight intention for Wednesday, Low pollution levels, small plume in E-NE
• 6 Jul 2009 – WP6: Regional and Global Climate Impacts - discussions continued in the MEGAPOLI regional climate modelling group on cilmatological runs and input data (ICTP, MPIC, UKMetO Teams)
  
• 5 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: No flights at the moment, light easterly plumes
  
• 4 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: ATR-42 flight today cancelled, inside agglom pollution levels
  
• 3 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: ATR-42 flight today cancelled, tomorrow maintained
  
• 2 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - alert - MEGAPOLI Campaign news: ATR-42 flight tomorrow and intention Saturday, teleconference, quick looks
  
• 1 Jul 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - first official day of the MEGAPOLI Summer Campaign! - ATR-42 aircraft started on 13h30 LT (with 30 min delay) to the south-western sector. 4 mobile vans (in-situ particles, lidar, DOAS, gas phase) are also deployed to the sector (official web-site: http://megapoli.lisa.univ-paris12.fr/GENERAL/general.php)
• 30 Jun 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - summer campaign kick-off meeting (Paris, France) with attendance of PIs from CNRS groups and SIRTA, LHVP, JUSSIEU, GOLFE La Poudrerie - questions discussed: alert procedure, strategy for mobile platforms; aircraft flights; web issues, exchange by information
  
• 29 Jun 2009 – Post Doctoral Position in Arctic Climatology is open for a scientist in the research project Planetary Boundary Layer Feedback in the Earth's Climate System (PBL-Feedback) at the
  G.C. Rieber Climate Institute at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (Bergen, Norway)  - contact Igor Esau (NERSC Team)
  
• 29 Jun 2009 – Spyros Pandis (FORTH Team, MEGAPOLI co-coordinator) during the next 2 weeks will stay in Paris summer measurement campaign (WP3: Paris Plume Study); than from 15 Jul till 22 Jul Alexander Baklanov (DMI Team, MEGAPOLI coordinator) will be involved into the campaign
  
• 28 Jun 2009 – discussions on further improvement of MEGAPOLI better communication and information exchange among the Partner Teams and Collaborators - public and internal web-site, MEGAPOLI NewsLetters, meeting between participants during conferences, workshops, etc., specially organized meeting, MEGAPOLI annual meetings, telephone conferences, etc.
  
• 27 Jun 2009 – WP8: Mitigation, Policy Options and Impact Assessment - preparation of the megacity interview protocols-templates for the 2nd and 3rd levels cities in the MEGAPOLI Pyramid - to be distributed soon - news from Dick van den Hout (TNO Team)
• 26 Jun 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - for decision making several internet sites will be used among others - news from Matthias Beekmann (CNRS-LISA Team):
• chemical species forecasts from PREVAIR system (http://www.prevair.org) based on GSF/MM5/CHIMERE and METEO-France-ARPEGE/MM5/CHIMERE at web-site of MEGAPOLI WP3: Paris Plume Study - http://megapoli.lisa.univ-paris12.fr/FORECASTS/forecasts.php;
  
• meteorological variables forecasts from http://france.meteofrance.com/ several models including GSF, ECMWF and GSF/WRF centered on France http://france.meteofrance.com/list official meteo France site http://www.lmd.polytechnique.fr/mm5;
• forecasts for local Paris, Northern France meteo vertical profiles, based on GSF/MM5;
• near real time measurements from SIRTA will also be available (wind speed, PBL height, clouds).
• 26 Jun 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - MEGAPOLI experiment IOP Alert Procedure defined as the pre-alert day, alert day, confirmation (flying date) - alert procedure by Agnes Borbon (CNRS-LISA Team)
  
• 26 Jun 2009 – WP8: Mitigation, Policy Options and Impact Assessment - megacity interview protocols-templates are distributed among the partners and collaborators for obtaining information on the MEGAPOLI Pyramid (1st top level - Paris, London, Rhine-Ruhr, and Po Valley) megacities with details on scenarios and emissions - news from Dick van den Hout (TNO Team)
  
• 25 Jun 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - "Weather sould be fine in the period 1-5 Jul 2009. A continental high is getting more and more influent over Northern France. So, beginning of July will probably very suitable for our campaign" – preparation of the campaign continues – news from Matthias Beekmann (CNRS-LISA Team)
• 24 Jun 2009 – coming soon – End-User Workshop at WMO in Geneva, Switzerland will be held during 8-10 Dec 2009 - organized together with WMO, GURME, COST-728 and MEGAPOLI in cooperation with CityZen, COST ES602, ACCENT, and MACC Projects - contact Liisa Jalkanen (WMO Team)
  
• 23 Jun 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - summer campaign - will have several forecasts with independent meteorological models - see details at MEGAPOLI Paris Plume Study Campaign http://megapoli.lisa.univ-paris12.fr/FORECASTS/forecasts.php - news from Matthias Beekmann (CNRS-LISA Team)
• 22 Jun 2009 – 1st year meeting of the MEGAPOLI Project - to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark (Danish Meteorological Institute) during 24-25 Sep 2009 - includes:first year results and report preparation, plans for the second year, board meeting (including external experts), joint coordination meeting with new daughter project MEGAPOLIS of the Russian partners - see details at the MEGAPOLI Internal web-site (megapoliforum.dmi.dk) - contact MEGAPOLI secretary Britta Christiansen (brc@dmi.dk) for accommodation issues
  
• 21 Jun 2009 – setting up and testing the Enviro-HIRLAM (Environment - HIgh Resolution Limited Area Model) model for the Paris campaign - initiated by Ulrik Korsholm (DMI Team)
• 20 Jun 2009 – MEGAPOLI Project has been mentioned several times during the COSMOS Earth System Modeling General Assembly held in Berlin, Germany during 15-17 Jun 2009 - establishing a linkage between the projects
  
• 19 Jun 2009 – MEGAPOLI partners discussions during the COST-728 "Enhancing Mesoscale Meteorological Modelling Capabilities for Air Pollution and Dispersion Applications" workshop during (Copenhagen, Denmark)
• 16 Jun 2009 – tools and software to support reporting to the European Commission for FP7 Projects - see details at http://www.fp-tools.eu
  
• 16-29 Jun 2009 – WP6: Regional and Global Climate Impacts - continued discussions on urbanization (from simple surface schemes for urban areas to more advanced) of regional climate models with linkage to WP5: Regional and Global Atmospheric Composition, and WP2: Megacity Features - developing sub-grid parameterizations of urban layer processes for megacity, regional and global scale models, and hierarchy of urban canopy parameterizations for different scales (LES, meso, and climate)
  
• 15 Jun 2009 – WP3: Paris Plume Study - web-site http://megapoli.lisa.univ-paris12.fr/index.php for the MEGAPOLI Campaign in the Paris Region during Summer 2009 and Winter 2009/2010:
• Campaign coordination - Matthias Beekmann (Matthias.Beekmann@lisa.univ-paris12.fr), LISA/IPSL, France and Urs Baltensperger (urs.baltensperger@psi.ch), PSI, Switzerland;
  
• Coordination of ground based segment: Jean Sciare (Jean.Sciare@lsce.ipsl.fr), LSCE/IPSL, France and Valerie Gros (Valerie.Gros@lsce.ipsl.fr), LSCE/IPSL, France;
• Coordination of airborne segment: Agnes Borbon (Agnes.Borbon@lisa.univ-paris12.fr), LISA/IPSL, France;
• Structure of web-site includes the following sections: Overview, News, Forecasts, Sites and PlateForms, Data and Measurements, Agenda, List of persons involved with contact information
  
• 15 Jun 2009 – WP1: Emissions - preparation detailed interviews for megacities listed in the MEGAPOLI Pyramid (at 1st, 2nd, and 3rd levels of importance) to be addressed to Partners and Collaborators of MEGAPOLI - initiated by Dick van den Hout (TNO Team)
• 12 Jun 2009 – FP7 EC BRIDGE Project "SustainaBle uRban plannIng Decision support accountinG for urban mEtabolism" (http://www.bridge-fp7.eu/) is willing to collaborate with MEGAPOLI (WP2: Megacity Features & WP8: Mitigation, Policy Options and Impact Assessment)
• 11 Jun 2009 – WP6: Regional and Global Climate Impacts - discussions on meteorological boundary conditions, concentrations, and emissions, required datasets to run regional climate models, land surface urban parameterizations, etc.- initiated by Ashraf Zakey and Filippo Giorgi (ICTP Team)
  
• 10 Jun 2009 – presentation about linking regional and global scales (with mentioning the MEGAPOLI project) - by Michael Gauss (Coordinator of CityZen project) at the HTAP Workshop on "Linkages Between Regional and Global Modeling and Air Quality and Climate Change", Joint Workshop with LRTAP/EMEP TF on Measurements and Modeling during 17-19 Jun 2009 (Paris, France); http://www.htap.org/
  
• 9 Jun 2009 – MEGAPOLI Project presented (by Alexander Baklanov, DMI Team) at the Workshop on "Climate Change and Environment" during the session "Climate and Environment" (8-9 Jun 2009, Moscow, Russia)
  
• 8 Jun 2009 – 3rd MEGAPOLI Project NewsLetter (Issue 3, Jun 2009) is published. The expected periodicity : every 3 months (Dec, Mar, Jun, Sep). Contributions from all Partners/ Teams and WorkPackages, as well as Collaborators and Users are welcome. Send your contributions related to activities of the MEGAPOLI and other linked projects, news and announcements to the following e-mail: news.megapoli@dmi.dk (maximum: size of 1 page, 2+ illustration, 3 references). Download/Save MS Word NewsLetters template file.
• 8 Jun 2009 – discussions on collaboration, remote sensing, modelling topics, etc. with a focus on the Moscow metropolitan area impact - between the EC MEGAPOLI and Russian daughter project MEGAPOLIS - involved Alexander Baklanov (DMI Team), Nikolay Kasimov (Collaborator - Moscow State University, Russia) and Valery Bondur (Collaborator - AEROCOSMOS, Russia)
  
• 7 Jun 2009 – coming soon – International Conference on Energy, Sustainability and Climate Change, 26-28 Feb 2010 (Gainesville, Florida, USA); http://www.ise.ufl.edu/cao/escc2010/
  
• 7 Jun 2009 – coming soon – Pollution in Megacities: Environmental Chemistry Annual Meeting, 23-25 Sep 2009 (Trier, Germany). Foci are environmental problems in rapidly developing countries and in megacities, monitoring in air and other compartments, aerosols, water and soil chemistry, etc.
  
• 5 Jun 2009 – presentation of the MEGAPOLI Project (by Alexander Baklanov, DMI Team) at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC; http://unfccc.int/) talks, special event "Air pollution and climate change: EU research activities to protect the planet and its inhabitants", 4-5 Jun 2009 (Bonn, Germany)
• 5 Jun 2009 – the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (met.no) is recruiting a new scientist/senior scientist (Transboundary Air Pollution) for a permanent position in the Section Air Pollution in the Research Department; http://met.no/English/Vacant_positions/
  
• 4 Jun 2009 – meeting with meeting with AIRPARIF representatives and discussions of MEGAPOLI collaboration (WP8: Mitigation, Policy Options and Impact Assessment) with the "Le Grand Paris" Initiative, linking MEGAPOLI with Conseil de Paris and Region ile de France - involved Paolo Laj (CNRS-LaMP Team)
  
• 4 Jun 2009 – Russian daughter project MEGAPOLIS (involved our external collaborators - AEROCOSMOS Scientific Center for Aerospace Monitoring, Faculty of Geography of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, and Institute of the Atmospheric Physics of the Russian Academy Sciences) - approved for funding in the scope of the Federal Framework Programme of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
• 3 Jun 2009 – coming  soon – Joint Assembly of IAMAS, IAPSO and IACS (MOCA-2009) "Our Warming Planet", Montréal, Québec, Canada, 19 - 29 Jul 2009, see http://www.moca-09.org/
• 2 Jun 2009 – stronger and more strategic international cooperation among the EU and India is among the FP7 priorities and in this regard more than 550 Indian research organisations have been involved in applying to FP7 - first of all on climate change research
• 1 Jun 2009 – coming soon – 2nd International FINE ! Dust-Free Congress,  1-2 Oct 2009, Klagenfurt, Austria (see details at http://www.life-spas.at/english/374.asp)
• 31 May 2009 – coming conference of possible interest – European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU-2010), to be held in Vienna, Austria, 2-7 May 2010 (with special MEGAPOLI, CityZen, MILAGRO session); see http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2010/
  
• 29 May 2009 – ARIANET Seminar "Modellistica Modellistica della Qualità dell'Aria e del Clima: le grandi aree urbane dalla scala regionale alla scala globale" (Milan, Italy) - presentations by - Alexander Baklanov (DMI Team) "The megacities impact on air quality and climate: model integration and model "bridging" in the context of the MEGAPOLI project" and Gregory Carmichael (MEGAPOLI Collaborator, USA) "Current state and future direction of air quality forecasting" - and discussions on Po Valley studies in MEGAPOLI
  
• 28 May 2009 – discussion on preparation of joint (WMO, COST-728, MEGAPOLI, CityZen, COST CWF, and ACCENT) workshop for end-users (8-10 Dec 2009, Geneva, Switzerland) - Liisa Jalkanen (WMO Team), Alexander Baklanov (DMI Team), and Greg Carmichael (MEGAPOLI Collaborator, USA) - contact for details with Liisa Jalkanen (ljalkanen@wmo.int)
  
• 28 May 2009 –  presentation "Urban air quality: Integrated systems for forecasting, assessments and mitigations (experience from FUMAPEX and MEGAPOLI projects" (by Alexander Baklanov) at the International Conference on "Mountains: energy, water and food for life. The SHARE project: understanding the impacts of climate change", Milan, Italy (see summary link)
  
• 27 May 2009 – news from TNO Team - WP1: Emissions - MEGAPOLI base year 2005 emission inventory dataset is available (for only MEGAPOLI internal restricted access)
• 26 May 2009 – coming soon – colloquium of the priority program "Megacities: Informal Dynamics of Global Change", 22-23 Jun 2009, Dortmund, Germany - MEGAPOLI Project poster presentation is planned (by MPIC Team)
• 25 May 2009 – invited talk on the MEGAPOLI Project (by Alexander Baklanov, DMI Team) is scheduled at the AW11 Session "Environmental Meteorology: from local to global" (in including total 26 oral and 16 poster presentations) of the 9th European Meteorological Society (EMS-2009) Annual Meeting, 28 Sep – 2 Oct 2009, Toulouse, France
  
• 24 May 2009 – coming soon - Eurocities working group meeting on Air Quality, Cllimate Change, and Energy Efficiency, 11-12 Jun 2009, Malaga, Spain
• 23 May 2009 – as of today more than 40 participants from different MEGAPOLI Teams have registered at the MEGAPOLI project internal web-site - http://megapoliforum.dmi.dk - (reminder, please, activate your personal accounts and modify your personal profiles if needed)
• 20 May 2009 – Megacities IGAC Assessment wrting is in progress - editors meeting including Mark Lawrence (MPIC Team) - additionally a description of Moscow and Po Valley as a megacities are included
• 17 May 2009 – MEGAPOLI Project poster presentation (by Alexander Mahura, DMI Team) is scheduled for the International Conference on Computational Information Technologies for Environmental Sciences (CITES-2009), 11-15 Jul 2009, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
• 16 May 2009 – coming conference of possible interest – International Aerosol Conference (IAC-2010), to be held in Helsinki, Finland, 29 Aug – 3 Sep 2010, see http://www.iac2010.fi
  
• 15 May 2009 – WP8: Mitigagtion, policy options and impact assessment - discussions inititated by Dick van den Hout (TNO Team), Matthias Beekmann (CNRS Team), and Rainer Freidrich (USTUTT Team) - on buildings of future scenarios of megacities developments and their effects on pollution and climate (on example of Paris in MEGAPOLI) - in link and cooperaion with the French political initiative "Nicolas Sarkozy’s Napoleonic vision wants to make Paris even greater", The Times Newspaper (29 Apr 2009)
  
• 12 May 2009 – COST Action ES0602 "Towards a European Network on Chemical Weather Forecasting and Information Systems" (http://chemicalweather.eu/) is planning to collaborate with MEGAPOLI and considers MEGAPOLI megacity Paris and other cities as Chemical Weather Forecasting (CWF) Study with ensemble runs
• 12 May 2009 – MEGAPOLI considers possible collaboration with COST Action TU0801 "Semantic Enrichment of 3D city models for sustainable urban development" (http://www.semcity.eu/) within WP2 Megacity features
• 10 May 2009 – new external collaborators from the Warsaw Technical University (Poland) are joining the MEGAPOLI research – modelling study for Paris area
• 9 May 2009 – Air Quality/ Climate Change/ Energy Efficiency WG meeting (Malaga, Spain, 10-11 Jun 2009) - with illustration of  the EUROCITIES Declaration on Climate Change
• 8 May 2009 – submission of abstracts for the European Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (EMS-2009) is closed. See soon details about joint session  - AW11: Environmental Meteorology (from local to global) - convener: S. M. Joffre, and co-conveners: A. Baklanov , P. Builtjes , M. Piringer , R. Sokhi) - will serve as a dissemination forum for the COST Actions 728, 732, ES0602 and ES0603, the EU FP6 Network of Excellence ACCENT, the GMES-projects GEMS and PROMOTE, GATO, GEOMON and the starting FP7 projects MACC and MEGAPOLI.
  
• 7 May 2009 – status on the TNO emissions databases preparation - for 1) Europe 2005 (ready), 2) Europe minus Megacities (expected in Sum 2009), 3) Europe merged with Megacities emissions (expected in Fal 2009)
• 6 May 2009 – MEGAPOLI Project poster presentation (by Ari Karppinen, FMI Team) is scheduled for the Air and Waste Management Association (AWMA-2009) Conference,  16-19 Jun 2009, Detroit, Michigan, USA
  
• 28 Apr 2009 – ARIANET Seminar is planned on 29 May 2009, Milan, Italy - meeting with external collaborators from USA
  
• 27 Apr 2009 – new external collaborators from the University of  Trento (Italy) are joining the MEGAPOLI research – Po Valley study
  
• 26 Apr 2009 – WP8: Mitigagtion, policy options and impact assessment - suggestions for interview and template for reporting response, intended to be used by participants responsible for contacts with cities (in cooperation with the CityZEN project and Risk-Habitat-Megacity initiative) – interview covers three main topics: urban development scenarios, emission data and scenarios for air pollution and greenhouse gases – initiated by Dick van den Hout (TNO Team)
  
• 25 Apr 2009 – according to joint agreement with the EC DG Reserach and Russian Ministry of High Education and Science a new research call for a collaborative project with MEGAPOLI is openned in Russia (with a total budjet of 1.7 MEu)
• 19-24 Apr 2009 –  MEGAPOLI/ MILAGRO/ CityZEN related special session is scheduled on Monday, 20 Apr 2009 and Meetings (MEGAPOLI and CityZen participants) at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU-2009), Vienna, Austria, 19-24 Apr 2009; http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2009/ :
• 20 Apr 2009 – 08.30-19.30 : AS3.8 Special Session on "Megacity Impacts on Regional and Global Scales" (in total, 17 oral and 45 poster presentations - divided into 3 oral and 2 poster sessions)
• 21 Apr 2009 – 10.30-12.00 : Joint meeting with the MEGAPOLI-CityZen projects participants; discussions on IGAC-sponsored "Assessment on Impacts of Mega-cities on Air Quality and Climate: Outline and Activities" (chapter on "Past and Current Research Activities on Atmospheric Chemistry in Mega-cities in Europe") and
• Summary memo-notes – list of participants, summary of presentations; details of discussions - summarized by Alexander Mahura (DMI Team)
• presentations:  Michael Gauss (met.no) – Tentative Agenda for the Meeting; Alexander Baklanov (DMI) – Introduction of the MEGAPOLI Project; Michael Gauss (met.no) – Introduction of the CityZen Project
• 23 Apr 2009 – discussion of possible collaboration with NOAA on WP1 and WP8 for emission datasets
• 24 Apr 2009 – discussions on joint session with contributions from the MEGAPOLI, CityZen, and MILAGRO projects; session is schedulled for the EGU-2010 Annual Meeting (May 2010, Vienna, Austria) - with presentations by continents (e.g. Europe, America, Asia, and other); as well 2nd splinter meeting between the MEGAPOLI and CityZen projects will be organized.
  

• 15 Apr 2009 –  suggestions for urban plume parametrizations for MEGAPOLI regional and global modelling - initiated by John Douros (AUTH Team)
  
• 14 Apr 2009 –  presentation on the MEGAPOLI project is invited for the 13th Session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, 3/4 June 2009, Bonn, Germany. Title of the Session - "Air pollution and climate change: EU research activities to protect the planet and its inhabitants", Subject - "The European Commission together with leading European research organisations will present innovative approaches developed within the EU RTD Framework programme to explore synergies and trade-offs between policies and strategies to protect the quality of air we breathe and to prevent climate change".
• 7-8 Apr 2009 – WP3: Megacity plume case study - campaign planning meeting in Paris, France (7-8 Apr 2009) - initiated by Matthias Beekmann et al. (CNRS Teams) and Urs Baltensperger (PSI Team) - with participation of Spyros Pandis as a co-coordinator:
• discussions among participants about chemical and meteorological measurements, practical involvement of other French reseach teams and authorities (AirParif);
• discussions between participants and presentations by groups proposing mobile ground based platforms (in addition) - MPI Mainz  Aerosols; MPI Mainz  MAXDOAS; PSI Aerosols; CEA Lidar; and University of Duisburg with gas phase species;
• use of remote sensing instruments at SIRTA; http://sirta.ipsl.polytechnique.fr/; additional stationary lidars and a lidar on a mobile platform operating during the measurement campaign are expected;
  
• intercomparison exercise prior to the Paris experiment - to be performed at SIRTA and during the last 2 weeks of June 2009;
• detailed notes will be available only for the internal use.
  

• 5 Apr 2009 – Newsletter of the EU Research for the Environment, Issue 5, Mar 2009-  is available online on the EC Environmental Research web site at
  
• 3 Apr 2009 – Newsletter of the International Association for Urban Climate (IAUC), Mar 2009 - is now available at http://www.urban-climate.org
  
• 1 Apr 2009 – WP8: Mitigagtion, policy options and impact assessment - questionnaire on megacity development scenario data – initiated by Dick van den Hout (TNO Team)
• 31 Mar 2009 – summary notes related to the MEGAPOLI Project meetings during the 7th International Conference on Air Quality; Istanbul, Turkey - summarized by D'Allura Alessio (ARIANET Team)
  
• 30 Mar 2009 – template-file for the MEGAPOLI Scientific Reports – designed
  
• 24-27 Mar 2009 – MEGAPOLI Partners and Collaborators, in total, presented 36 oral and 8 posters during the 7th International Conference on Air Quality - Science and Application, Istanbul, Turkey, 24-27 Mar 2009; http://www.airqualityconference.org/
• during conference days - MEGAPOLI focus groups short working meetings (with the MEGAPOLI coordinator involvement) on the following research topics: 1) Po Valley focus group; 2) Istanbul megacity study group; 3) Upscaling (from city to regional and to global scales) modelling; 4) Two-way nesting for street- and city scales (AUTH-DMI Teams); 5)  Paris datasets (emission, land-use, monitoring, modelling) and experiment plans (CNRS et al., TNO Teams); 6) Meteo-measurements for the Paris plume study (CNRS et al., FMI Teams & Vaisala); 7) Remote sensing and data assimilation (with CityZen); 8) Integrated modelling - joint work - with CHIMERE, UKMO; 9) Air pollution and ecosystem impact indexes (UHel Team); 10) Urban planning and future scenarios (TNO, UHam Teams & Peter Suppan); 11) TNO emission inventory for MEGAPOLI (TNO team)
  
• 26 Mar 2009 – 10.55-15.50 : "Air Quality and Climate/ Meteorology Interactions and Feedbacks" special session organized in cooperation with the EUCAARI, MEGAPOLI, CityZen, COST-728 and other projects (in total 10 oral presentations)

• 23 Mar 2009 – 09.00-12.30 : Meeting of the MEGAPOLI Modelling Teams (finalization of discussions on modelling plans, areas/domains and formats of input/output data), Firuze Room at the 2nd floor of the hotel Surmeli; Istanbul, Turkey
  
• 23 Mar 2009 – WP3: Megacity plume case study - Matthias Beekmann (CNRS Team) - outlined programme of the MEGAPOLI campaign planning meeting in Paris during 7-8 Apr 2009 (about 25 European and French participants are expected to attend); the meeting will include visits of the peri-urban SIRTA site,  urban Laboratoire d Hygiène de la Ville de Paris (LHVP), discussion of logistic and scientific campaign.
• 21 Mar 2009 – reminder about deadline of abstracts for the European Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (EMS-2009) is approaching - 8 May 2009. See details about joint session (convener: S. M. Joffre, and co-conveners: A. Baklanov , P. Builtjes , M. Piringer , R. Sokhi) - AW11: Environmental Meteorology (from local to global) (http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EMS2009/session/1471) - will serve as a dissemination forum for the COST Actions 728, 732, ES0602 and ES0603, the EU FP6 Network of Excellence ACCENT, the GMES-projects GEMS and PROMOTE, GATO, GEOMON and the starting FP7 projects MACC and MEGAPOLI. The session is also sponsored by the EUMETNET WG-ENV.
• 20 Mar 2009 – WP1: Emissions - Megacities in Focus: Sandro Finardi (ARIANET Team) - Po-Valley Modelling Intercomparison Exercise (POMI; http://aqm.jrc.ec.europa.eu/POMI/) project on more detailed description of Po-Valley emissions. See also presentation by Triacchine et al. (2009) - Preparation of the base case Emission Inventory 2005.
  
• 20 Mar 2009 –  presentation about the MEGAPOLI Project is invited for the Conference "Mountains: Energy, water and food for life. The SHARE project: understanding the impacts of climate change",  27-28 May 2009, Milan, Italy
  
• 19 Mar 2009 – coming international conference of possible interest – Megacities: Risk, Vulnerability, and Sustainable Development, Leipzig, Germany, 7 - 9 Sep 2009 - invites interdisciplinary contributions of worldwide regions from all fields of urban research such as: land use, social polarization, security, energy, water and sanitation, waste, mobility and transportation, air quality, health, food supply, economic productivity, climate, ecology. Proposed work is expected to examine these fields by means of modelling, monitoring, quantitative and qualitative social/political science research and scenario techniques. Interdisciplinary contributions are expected to present research that connects to any of the three main themes Risk, Vulnerability and Sustainable development.
• 19 Mar 2009 – Final COST-728 Action MG meeting and related user oriented workshop (together with MEGAPOLI) - contact Liisa Jalkanen (WMO Team) - 8-10 Dec 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
  
• 18 Mar 2009 – upcoming course - FP7 Financial and Project Management - training will introduce a hands-on approach to FP7 project management, highlighting the changes in the financial framework and implementation guidelines for FP7 - organized by Europa Media Trainings, Budapest, Hungary, 11-12 Jun 2009
  
• 17 Mar 2009 – New EC Project Officer for MEGAPOLI Project had been appointed - "as of 9 Mar 2009 the new Scientific Officer responsible for the MEGAPOLI project is Mr. Jimenez Mingo Jose" (contact e-mail: Jose.Jimenze-Mingo@ec.europa.eu; phone: +32 2 297-6721)
  
• 17 Mar 2009 – coming international workshop of possible interest – Atmospheric Composition Changes: Climate-Chemistry Interactions, Lecce, Italy, 2 - 4 Nov 2009; contact - Ashraf Zakey - azakey@ictp.it - (ICTP Team); (Topics: Emissions; Photochemistry; Aerosol; Sattelite remote sensing of air quality in cities; General circulation and regional climate models; Parametrization of cloud microphysics/ dynamics/ radiation in models; Dynamics and aerosol radiative effects; Regional climate; Air quality modelling
• 16 Mar 2009 – building a collaboration with the Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) - initiated by Hugo Denier van der Gon (TNO Team)
  
• 16 Mar 2009 – short information about the MEGAPOLI Project to be presented in the NewsLetters on Climate Change of the Community Enterprise Forum International (CEFI), Centre for Climate Change and Energy Adaptation
  
• 15 Mar 2009 –  Description of Work (DoW) of  the MEGAPOLI Project  has been published. The MEGAPOLI Partners/ Collaborators/ Users willing to receive the printed version - send your request directly to secretary.megapoli@dmi.dk with your postal address for delivery
• 14 Mar 2009 – MEGAPOLI poster "Megacities: emissions, urban, regional and global atmospheric pollution and climate effects, and integrated tools for assessment and mitigation" had been presented by Alexander Baklanov (DMI Team) at the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) International Scientific Climate Congress (Copenhagen, Denmark); (poster A4, A3 format; abstract)
  
• 12 Mar 2009 – working meeting of MEGAPOLI WP6 participants during the International Scientific Climate Congress (Copenhagen, Denmark)
  
• 11 Mar 2009 – suggestion of collaboration between MEGAPOLI Project and partnership project in the scope of the Federal Framework Programme of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation - discussed and outlined during the EC-Russia Working Group meeting in Feb 2009, Bruxells, Belgium; involved organizations are the AEROCOSMOS Scientific Center for Aerospace Monitoring, Faculty of Geography of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, and Institute of the Atmospheric Physics of the Russian Academy Sciences
  
• 10 Mar 2009 – 2nd MEGAPOLI Project NewsLetter (Issue 2, Mar 2009) is published. The expected periodicity : every 3 months (Dec, Mar, Jun, Sep). Contributions from all Partners/ Teams and WorkPackages, as well as Collaborators and Users are welcome. Send your contributions related to activities of the MEGAPOLI and other linked projects, news and announcements to the following e-mail: news.megapoli@dmi.dk (maximum: size of 1 page, 2+ illustration, 3 references). Download/Save MS Word NewsLetters template file.
• 5 Mar 2009 – WP3: Megacity plume case study - organization of the compaign planning meeting in Paris, France (7-8 Apr 2009) - initiated by WP3 leaders - Matthias Beekmann (CNRS Team) and Urs Baltensperger (PSI Team), and coordinators of the segments: Agnès Borbon - (airborne measurements) and Vaérie Gros and Jean Sciare (ground based measurements) of the CNRS Team
• 5 Mar 2009 – working meeting of the MEGAPOLI partners and collaborators participating in the COST-728 Action (Madrid, Spain)
• 4 Mar 2009 – working meeting (Sandro Finardi, ARIANET Team) with Italian participants from the CNR/ SAC (Bologna, Italy) involved into our sister CityZen, and discussion of foreseen activities regarding Po Valley modelling
  
• 2 Mar 2009 – MEGAPOLI poster presentation (P28.03 - "Megacities: emissions, urban, regional and global atmospheric pollution and climate effects, and integrated tools for assessment and mitigation", by Alexander Baklanov, DMI Team) is scheduled on 14 Mar 2009 at the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) International Scientific Climate Congress, Copenhagen, 10-14 Mar 2009; See detailed programme at the http://climatecongress.ku.dk/programme/detailed_programmes/
• 27 Feb 2009 – information about the MEGAPOLI Project to be presented at the Session - AS3.8: Megacities: Air Quality and Climate Impacts from Local to Global Scales. European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU-2009), Vienna, Austria, 19-24 Apr 2009 - by Mark Lawrence (MPIC Team) "Megacity Pollution Effects from Urban to Global Scales: An Overview of the MEGAPOLI Project".
  
• 27 Feb 2009 – Offiicial address of the MEGAPOLI Project web-site – switched from megapoli.dmi.dk to www.megapoli.info
  
• 26 Feb 2009 – WP4: Megacity air quality – opening discussion on the selection of computational domains for workpackage (initiated by Nicolas Moussiopoulos and John Douros, AUTH Team, Greece)
  
• 25 Feb 2009 – MEGAPOLI Description of Work (DoW) – submitted to Printing House (status – in Press)
• 22 Feb 2009 – starting collaboration with the EC FP7 "Atmospheric Planetary Boundary Layers: Physics, Modelling and Role in Earth System" (PBL-PMES)  Project (leader Prof. S. Zilitinkevich; Finish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland), see offiicial web-site at http://pbl-pmes.fmi.fi/.
• 18 Feb 2009 – information about the MEGAPOLI Project to be presented at the Italian National Meeting of the Piemonte Regional Environmental Protection Agency, 24-27 Marc 2009, Piemonte, Italy – by Sandro Finardi (ARIANET team) "European initiatives on air quality modelling to support air quality management".
  
• 17 Feb 2009 – new book on "Urbanization of Meteorological and Air Quality Models", Eds. A. Baklanov, S. Grimmond, A. Mahura, M. Athanassiadou – sent to Press in Springer; available at http://www.cost728.org/Publications.htm
  
• 16 Feb 2009 – coming conference of possible interest – International Conference on Computational Information Technologies for Environmental Sciences: “CITES-2009”, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, 11-15 July, 2009, http://www.scert.ru/en/conferences/cites2009/
  
• 13 Feb 2009 – Megacities in Focus: Po Valley - starting discussions about definition of computational domains (initiated by Sandro Finardi, ARIANET, Italy)
  
• 11-12 Feb 2009 – Working meeting of A. Baklanov with the "Atmospheric Planetary Boundary Layers: Physics, Modelling and role in Earth System" (PBL-PMES) EC FP7 Project lead by Prof. S. Zilitinkevich (Finish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland) and Dr. I. Bashmakova (University of Helsinki, Finland)
  
• 27 Jan 2009 – MEGAPOLI Project poster accepted for presentation at the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) International Scientific Climate Congress, Copenhagen, 10-14 Mar 2009; http://climatecongress.ku.dk/
  
• 15 Jan 2009 – coming conference of possible interest – MOCA-2009 Joint Assembly of IAMAS, IAPSO and IACS, Montréal, Québec, Canada, 19 - 29 Jul 2009, http://www.moca-09.org/
• 07 Jan 2009 – 10.00-11.30 : Telephone Conference with the sister CityZen Project. Participated - Michael Gauss, Maria Kanakidou, and Øystein Hov (from CityZen) and Alexander Baklanov, Mark Lawrence, Spyros Pandis, and Alexander Mahura (from MEGAPOLI). See summary notes.

• 24 Dec 2008 – Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2009 !!!

• 15 Dec 2008 – ISBN number for the MEGAPOLI Project related publications – assigned
• 14 Dec 2008 – MEGAPOLI Project was presented at the 14th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), along with the 4th Session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, 1–12 Dec 2008, Poznań, Polland (COP-14)
  
• 09 Dec 2008 – Description of Work (DoW) of  the MEGAPOLI Project
  
• 05 Dec 2008 – Official Leaflet of the MEGAPOLI Project
  
• 01 Dec 2008 – 1st MEGAPOLI Project NewsLetter (Issue 1, Dec 2008) is published
• 30 Nov 2008 – Official Web-Site (megapoli.dmi.dk) of the MEGAPOLI Project is launched for an open public and partners/teams restricted access
• 26-28 Oct 2008 – Kick-Off-Meeting (Mainz, Germany) – 1st official meeting of the MEGAPOLI Project participants/representatives of the Partners/Teams
• 25 Oct 2008 – Pay your attention to conferences you might be interested to attend and present the MEGAPOLI Project results and findings:

• International Scientific Congress on Climate Change, Copenhagen, Denmark, 10 - 12 March 2009, http://climatecongress.ku.dk/
• 7th International Conference on Air Quality - Science and Application, Istanbul, Turkey, 24-27 March 2009, (with special MEGAPOLI session), http://www.airqualityconference.org
• European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU-2009), Vienna, Austria, 19 - 24 April 2009, (with special MEGAPOLI session), http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2009/
• 7th International Conference on Urban Climate, Yokohama, Japan, 29 Jun – 3 Jul 2009, http://www.ide.titech.ac.jp/~icuc7/
• 17th International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution, Tallinn, Estonia, 20 - 22 July 2009, http://www2.wessex.ac.uk/09-conferences/air-pollution-2009.html
• European Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (EMS-2009), Toulouse, France, 28 Sep - 2 Oct 2009, (with special MEGAPOLI session), http://www.emetsoc.org/annual_meetings/annual_meetings_2009.php

• 01 Oct 2008 – Official Starting Date of the MEGAPOLI Project 
• 07 Oct 2008  – The MEGAPOLI proposal – approved by EC
  
• Sep 2008 – The MEGAPOLI proposal – negotiations finished
• 15 Sep 2008 – Logo of the MEGAPOLI Project – designed
• 10 Sep 2008 – MEGAPOLI mentioned in Nature news (Nature, 455, pp. 142-143) on the FP7 EC MEGAPOLI Project – “Megacity project seeks to gauge urban pollution” (by Declan Butler)
• Oct 2007 – The MEGAPOLI proposal – negotiations started
• 26 Jul 2007 – The MEGAPOLI proposal – positively evaluated (grading - 14 of 15)
  
• 02 May 2007 – The MEGAPOLI proposal – submitted for evaluation
  

PRE-MEGAPOLI Project Activities are linked with seven working meetings to build the consortium and to prepare the MEGAPOLI proposal were organised during 2006-2007:

• 15-16 Mar 2007 – Second meeting of the consortium (Mainz, Germany)
  
• 28 Feb 2007 – First meeting of the consortium (Brussels, Belgium)
  
• 21-22 Feb 2007 – Steering group meeting (Brussels, Belgium)
  
• 15-16 Feb 2007 – First meeting of WP2 participants (Bergen, Norway)
• 15-16 Jan 2007 – Aerosol science (WPs4-5) meeting with the EUCAARI consortium (Helsinki, Finland)
  
• 14 Nov 2006 – First meeting of proposal participants (Copenhagen, Denmark)
  
• 05 Sep 2006 – First meeting of initial group (Ljubljana, Slovenia)