January 2023
MetClimVOC stakeholders' workshop
11/01/2023
The second (and last) stakeholders' workshop of the project will take place next March in Lyon. The workshop will be a satellite event of the international congress of metrology CIM2023 (7-10 March 2023). You can find more information about the workshop in the CIM programme. If you are interested in participating, don't hesitate to contact us for more information. The participation is free of charge for a limited number of people and includes the access for the two first days of conference (first come, first served). Hope see you there!
December 2022
MetClimVOC at MedGU2022
02/12/2022
Results related to the preparation of new reference gas mixtures for VOCs (oxygenated VOCs, terpenes and halogenated VOCs) were presented at the Mediterranean Geophysical Union MedGU2022 by Maitane Iturrate-Garcia. The annual meeting took place from 27 to 30 November in Marrakech.October 2022
Publishable summary
31/10/2022
As part of the periodic reporting to EURAMET, an updated publishable summary of the project MetClimVOC is available here.
September 2022
MetClimVOC at the WMO-BIPM workshop
30/09/2022
Members of the MetClimVOC consortium attended the online workshop Metrology for Climate Action hosted by BIPM and WMO from 26 to 30 September 2022. The workshop was open to experts and stakeholders active in the fields of climate science, observations and GHG mitigation, measurement and modelling among others. Three of the partners presented project outputs during the poster session at the GatherTown. Tobias Bühlmann presented results on the preparation of SI-traceable reference gas mixtures for halogenated VOCs. Thérèse Salameh (IMT Nord Europe) showed preliminary results of the side-by-side interlaboratory comparison of new and classical techniques for formaldehyde measurements. Stefan Reimann presented the work done to developed TUCAVOC: a novel automated tool for uncertainty calculation for atmospheric VOC measurements.June 2022
MetClimVOC blog
17/06/2022
During the lifecycle of a research project, valuable data are generated. How should this research data be managed? What happens with the data once the project is finished? You will find more about research data management and data sharing on this month post written by our guests.
M26 meeting
14-15/06/2022
Month 26 (M26) project meeting took place on 14-15/06/2022. This time, the meeting had an hybrid format, where half of the partners could attend the meeting at PTB-Braunschweig (Germany).
During day 1, we discussed the progress done, as well as the next milestones, for technical workpackages WP1 (VOC reference gas standards for use in the monitoring of the chemistry of the atmosphere), WP2 (working standards: traceability, dissemination and comparisons) and WP3 (Development and improvement of measurement methods). WP4 (creating impact) was also discussed during the first day, which end it up with a nice visit to the city and a dinner, both organized by our colleagues from PTB.
Day 2 was dedicated to WP5 (management and coordination) and to research data management, FAIRness and publications.
Formaldehyde side-by-side intercomparison
08/06/2022
IMT Nord Europe successfully organized a side-by-side intercomparison campaign in Douai (France) dedicated to formaldehyde measurement in a low amount fraction range of 2 - 20 nmol/mol, from 30 May to 8 June 2022.
The objectives of the intercomparison are to evaluate the instruments metrological performance under the same challenging conditions, and to build best practices and instrumental knowledge.
Ten instruments belonging to seven different techniques were challenged with the same formaldehyde gas mixture, generated either from a cylinder or from a permeation system. Different conditions (amount fractions, relative humidity, interference, blanks, etc.) were used. The gas mixtures flowed through a high-flow (up to 50 L/min) Silcosteel-coated manifold. The data will be analyzed and discussed in order to determine the advantages/drawbacks of the techniques.
For more information contact Thérèse Salameh.
April 2022
MetClimVOC Collaborators
01/04/2022
The Mediterranean Center for Environmental Studies (CEAM) is the latest institution joining our list of collaborators.
Within the framework of this collaboration, CEAM Atmospheric Chemistry group, will participate in the side by side interlaboratory comparison on techniques for measuring fromaldehyde at nomol/mol level. The comparison, organized by the project partners IMTelecom and DWD, will take place in June 2022 at IMTelecom (Lille-Douai, France).
March 2022
MetClimVOC Stakeholder Committee
09/03/2022
Welcome to the new member of our Stakeholder Committee (SC), Yasin Elshorbany! Yasin was invited to the project SC because of his role as a lead of the Tropospheric Ozone Precursors (TOP) focus working group of the Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report (TOAR). Learn more about Yasin here.
February 2022
MetClimVOC blog
28/02/2022
What is the gravimetric method? How are gravimetric reference gas mixtures (RGMs) of oxy-VOCs prepared? What are the main challenges of this method? How can prepared RGMs being validated? These questions and other special considerations are answered in our latest blog post.
December 2021
Also in Twitter!
22/12/2021
We are now in Twitter! Don't hesitate to visit us there!
Training videos now available!
17/12/2021
Slides and videos on the presentations given during the Workshop on VOCs - Bringing in situ and remote communities together for a better data uncertainty estimation, held on 14 October 2021, are now available.
MetClimVOC blog
11/12/2021
What are terpenes? How do they affect the atmosphere? How are atmospheric terpenes measured? These questions are answered in our latest blog post.
October 2021
M18 meeting
12-13/10/2021
Month 18 (M18) project meeting took place on 12-13/10/2021. Once more, due to the current sanitary crisis, the meeting was held virtually.
During day 1, we discussed the progress done, as well as the next milestones, for technical workpackages WP1 (VOC reference gas standards for use in the monitoring of the chemistry of the atmosphere), WP2 (working standards: traceability, dissemination and comparisons) and WP3 (Development and improvement of measurement methods). Day 2 was dedicated to WP4 (creating impact) and WP5 (management and coordination), with a special session on the topic of research data management and FAIR data.
MetClimVOC workshop
08/10/2021
The final agenda for the workshop on 'VOC measurements - bringing in situ and remote communities together for a better data uncertainty' is now available. If you are interested in participating or you have questions about the workshop, don't hesitate to send your request to the following address.
MetClimVOC blog
08/10/2021
Is it possible to monitor halogenated VOCs from the space? How do infrared instruments on satellites measure atmospheric composition? What are the limits of these measurements in terms of accuracy? Is SI-traceability possible for absorbtion cross sections?. Visit our latest blog post to answer these questions.
September 2021
MetClimVOC workshop
17/09/2021
We are pleased to invite you to the virtual workshop that will take place in October. A preliminary agenda can be found here. If you are interested in participating or you have questions about the workshop, don't hesitate to send your request to the following address.
MetClimVOC at CIM-2021
10/09/2021
After 18 months of virtual conferences and meetings, the International Metrology Congress (CIM) took place from 7 to 9 September 2021 in Lyon. Three of our partners attended the congress. Thérèse Salameh (IMT) presented preliminary results from workpackage 3 in the session "Gas Metrology". Maitane Iturrate-Garcia (METAS) presented the project and its first outcomes in the session "Green Deal", which was chaired by Annarita Baldan (VSL).
June 2021
MetClimVOC blog
28/06/2021
It has been already one year since the beginning of the project MetClimVOC. Visit our latest blog post to know more about the progress done and difficulties encountered by the consortium during these last months.
May 2021
MetClimVOC at Eurachem
22/05/2021
METAS presented some of the activities of the project MetClimVOC at the Eurachem scientif workshop on "Trends and Challenges in Ensuring Quality in Analytical Measurements", which was virtually held last 17-21 May 2021. The title of the contribution was "Traceable reference gas mixtures to calibrate analyser used to measure atmospheric VOCs", and described the steps given to generate dynamically reference gas mixtures (RGMs),to ensure traceability and to calculate the uncertinty of the RGMs. Here , you can find the presented poster.
April 2021
Publishable summary
30/04/2021
As part of the periodic reporting to EURAMET, an updated publishable summary of the project MetClimVOC is available here.
March 2021
MetClimVOC blog
29/03/2021
How gas surface interactions can affect VOC monitoring? What type of interactions can we expect? How to know what interactions do we have in our experimental system and how to quantify them? Visit our latest blog post to answer these questions.
Open virtual training
19/03/2021
Our first open virtual training took place on 17/03/2021 after M10 project meeting. More than 100 participants attended the training, which addressed the following topics: atmospheric measurements of volatile compounds at monitoring stations; metrological vocabulary and traceability; and preparation of static and generation of dynamic reference gas mixtures, their traceability and uncertainty. The presentations are available here.
M10 meeting
19/03/2021
Month 10 (M10) project meeting took place on 16-17/03/2021. Once more, due to the current sanitary crisis, the meeting was held virtually.
During day 1, we discussed the progress done, as well as the next milestones, for technical workpackages WP1 (VOC reference gas standards for use in the monitoring of the chemistry of the atmosphere), WP2 (working standards: traceability, dissemination and comparisons) and WP3 (Development and improvement of measurement methods). Day 2 was dedicated to WP4 (creating impact) and WP5 (management and coordination).
After an intense meeting, our virtual training took place.
Open virtual training
12/03/2021
Next 17/03/2021, we are organizing a training on VOC atmospheric measurements, metrological vocabulary and traceability and dynamic and static generation of reference gas mixtures. If you are interested on participating, don't hesitate to contact us (see below).
February 2021
Published article
26/02/2021
The first peer-reviewed publication of the project is online. The article, titled "Reproducibility of the quantification of reversible wall interactions in VOC sampling lines", describes acetone losses due to surface effects of the VOC with the walls of Sulfinert® coated test pipes.
January 2021
MetClimVOC blog
18/01/2021
Curious about ozone-depleting substances? Visit our third blog post to learn more about halogenated VOCs, their monitoring and the traceability of the measurements!
November 2020
MetClimVOC blog
19/11/2020
The second blog post is online! Do you want to know more about volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and their effects on climate change? This topic is covered on the post, which includes a list of priority VOCs elaborated in collaboration with stakeholders.
MetClimVOC at SGM2020
07/11/2020
METAS presented the project MetClimVOC in the combined sessions 16. Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions and Greenhouse Gases and 17. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics at the Swiss Geoscience Meeting. Although it was held online, it was a successful meeting (445 abstracts submitted and more than 1000 registrations) with a great scientific exchange.
September 2020
Priority list of VOCs
30/09/2020
The first deliverable of the project prioritising VOCs is finished. This summary report includes amount fraction ranges and metrological requirements for the selected oxy-VOCs, terpenes and halogenated VOCs. More information about the priority list can be found here.
Stakeholder Committee
23/09/2020
The project Stakeholder Committee (SC) is now formed. Visit this section to know more about the fourteen members.
02/09/2020
The project Stakeholder Committee (SC) is almost totally formed; twelve members (and counting?) are part of it. The SC is currently contributing to elaborate the final list of priority compounds, which will be the target of the consortium research.
August 2020
MetClimVOC blog
31/08/2020
Our blog is online! Don't hesitate in visiting the first post. Every 2 months, we will publish new exciting articles about VOCs and their monitoring.
June 2020
Kick-off meeting
02-03/06/2020
Although the current global COVID-19 situation prevented us from
having a face-to-face meeting, we had many productive on-line discussions during the two-day meeting.
During day 1, we discussed the technical workpackages WP1 (VOC reference gas standards for use in the monitoring of the chemistry of the atmosphere), WP2 (working standards: traceability, dissemination and comparisons) and WP3 (Development and improvement of measurement methods). Day 2 was dedicated to WP4 (creating impact) and WP5 (management and coordination).
After an intense kick-off meeting, we enjoyed a very interesting training targeted to partners from metrology institutes. The training, titled "VOC atmpospheric measurements" was given by partners involved in VOC monitoring (IMT (organizer), Empa and DWD). Unfortunately, we ran out of time to attend the part of the training given by KIT.
...and go!
01/06/2020
Everything is ready for the kick-off meeting: a full two-day agenda
and tons of excitment!