CEIP the new EMEP centre

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CEIP the new EMEP centre

Katarina Mareckova, Robert Wankmueller CEIP -
Centre on Emission Inventories and Projections
TFEIP/EIONET Tallinn, May 2008
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CEIP Centre on Emission Inventories and
Projections

• Hosted by UBA Vienna http//www.emep-emissions.at/
  ceip/
• Main task
• Collect emissions and projections of acidifying
  air pollutants, heavy metals, particulate matter
  and photochemical oxidants from Parties to the
  LRTAP Convention.
• Make emission inventories publicly available
• Support UNECE /CLRTAP secretariat
• Prepare data sets as input for long-range
  transport models.
• Review the submitted emissions to assist the
  Parties improving the quality of national
  inventories.

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Data flow
MS inventories
MS inventories
MS inventories
Parties to the CLRTAP
CLRTAPUNECE Secretariat
Notification forms
testing
Country reports
inventories
RepDab
CEIP (UBA-V) WebDab
Status reports
EMEP SB
Eurostat
EMEP EB
Gridded data
Surrogate data
review
UNFCCCCRF
modelers
EEA, ETC ACC
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Key activities

• Transition of the system from MSC-W to UBA CEIP
  (Dec-Jan)
• Development of the webpage (Jan)
• Import of Parties submission into CEIP database
  ( Feb-March)
• Review Stage 1 country Status reports (10
  March)
• Gap filling of submitted data (April)
• WebDab released for internal use, gridded data
  (15 April)
• Review Stage 2 country Syntheses Assessment
  reports (31 May)
• Annual update of WebDab (31 June)
• Technical Review Report (summary results) (15
  July)
• Recording countries comments (July/Aug)
• Stage 3 review (Sept/Nov)
• Adaptation of the system for the NEW 2007
  Reporting Guidelines
• Set-up priorities for improvements in 2009
• Presentation of review results during TFEIP
  meetings (May Nov)
• Reporting to EMEP SB and EB (Sept Dec)

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EMEP system technical details functionalities

• Operating system Ubuntu 7.10, Linux
  Kernel Version 2.6.22.14
• RAM 2 GB , Intel Core 2 Duo CPU with 2,66 GHz
• Apache Web server (Version 2.2.4) for performing
  the database queries via the CEIP homepage
• Database server PostgesQL 8.1 with 3 databases
• CEIP DB (working database)
• WebDab DB (via CEIP-Homepage online available
  data)
• Test DB (database for testing of updates,
  improvements,..)
• Backup of all databases is done automatically
  every week
• Key functionalities
• Access to Parties emissions (The WebDab database
  can be queried using the following links on the
  CEIP homepage)
• Emission as reported by parties
• Gap filled emissions and
• (Activity data)
• RepDab Checks Automated review - generation of
  tables and graphs (Completeness , Consistency,
  Key source analysis, Cross pollutant checks,
  Recalculation , Inventory comparison, Trends and
  time series)

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Summary

• The transition of the system to UBA was
  successful, MSC-w provided valuable support
• Deliverables are produced in line with WP, a few
  improvements of the system could be already
  implemented
• Challenges
• Improvement of transparency and documentation of
  gap-filling gridding
• improve presentation of data included in WebDab
• adaptation of the system to the new Reporting
  Guidelines
• assess options for support to EECCA countries
• set-up priorities for improvements