Seminar: Christoph Gerbig

The Integrated Greenhouse Gas Monitoring System for Germany (ITMS) is a national initiative to establish an operational service for the provision of independent estimates of GHG fluxes for Germany. The main aim is to enhance transparency in reporting of emissions and natural fluxes on the path to net zero emissions. ITMS is a highly interdisciplinary project, bringing together diverse scientific communities involved in atmospheric observations, satellite observations, biosphere and agriculture research, inventory experts, and atmospheric transport and inverse modelling. ITMS utilizes observational datastreams from research infrastructures such as ICOS and IAGOS, and tailored remote sensing products, to constrain Germany’s GHG fluxes into the atmosphere using inverse atmospheric transport modelling. The presentation will present examples of recent progress, and provide an outlook to the next ITMS phase.