Ozone Secretariat REPORT OF THE SEVENTH MEETING OF THE OZONE RESEARCH MANAGERS OF THE PARTIES TO THE VIENNA CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE OZONE LAYER (Geneva, 18 - 21 May 2008) WMO Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project Report No. 51 WMO/TD-No. 1437 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................. 1 OPENING OF THE MEETING ............................................................................................................................ 1 Welcome address (L. Jalkanen) .......................................................................................................................... 1 Introduction - Objectives of the meeting (M. Gonzalez) ...................................................................................... 1 Keynote address: The ozone layer, the gains of the Montreal Protocol and the future (A.R. Ravishankara) ............................................................................................................................................ 2 Retrospective: 6ORM in 2005 and since then (M. Kurylo) .................................................................................. 3 Election of the Chairperson ................................................................................................................................. 3 Opening Statement by UNEP (P. Bakken).......................................................................................................... 3 Statement by WMO (G.Asrar) ............................................................................................................................. 4 Approval of the agenda ....................................................................................................................................... 5 SESSION 1: INTRODUCTORY SESSION: THE VIENNA CONVENTION Review of the recommendations of the Sixth Meeting of the Ozone Research Managers, Vienna, September 2005 (WMO Global Ozone Report No.48) and the resultant decisions of the Seventh Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention, Dakar, December 2005 (M. Kurylo, Chairperson of 6ORM) ...................................................................................................................... 5 Activities under the Vienna Convention Trust Fund for Research and Systematic Observation relevant to the Vienna Convention (M. Seki, Ozone Secretariat/G. Braathen, WMO) ................... 5 SESSION 2: THE STATE OF THE OZONE LAYER AND INTERACTIONS BETWEEN OZONE LAYER DEPLETION AND CLIMATE CHANGE Assessments under the Montreal Protocol (A. R. Ravishankara, Co-Chair, SAP) ............................................. 7 The current state of the ozone layer (A.R. Ravishankara and P. Newman, Co-Chairs, SAP)............................ 7 Links between ozone and climate (J. Pyle, Co-Chair, SAP) ............................................................................... 8 Influences of ozone layer depletion and climate change on UV-radiation and its impacts on human health and the environment (J. van der Leun, Co-Chair, EEAP) ............................................................ 8 SESSION 3: INTERNATIONAL MONITORING PROGRAMMES WMO Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) programme (L. Jalkanen, WMO)........................................................ 9 The Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC) (N. Larsen, Danish Meteorological Institute) ....................................................................................................... 9 The Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes Network (SHADOZ) (M. Kurylo, NASA)......................... 10 Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) (D. Goodrich, GCOS Secretariat)................................................. 10 Integrated Global Atmospheric Chemistry Observations (IGACO-O3/UV) (G. Braathen, WMO)..................... 11 Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) and associated networks (S. Reimann, EMPA) ......................................................................................................................................... 12 ODS concentrations in the atmosphere: Scenarios and trends (G. Velders, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency)........................................................................ 12 The WCRP project Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate (SPARC) (T. Peter, ETH Zurich) ....................................................................................................................................... 13 SESSION 4: SATELLITE RESEARCH AND MONITORING Importance of satellite monitoring and programmes ......................................................................................... 13 NASA and NOAA (K. Jucks, NASA) ........................................................................................................... 13 KNMI (P. Levelt and P. Veefkind) ............................................................................................................... 14 China Meteorological Administration (Huang Fuxiang)............................................................................... 14 Canadian Space Agency (T. Piekutowski).................................................................................................. 15 EUMETSAT (L. Backmann, Finland) .......................................................................................................... 15 Update on ESA Programmes with a Focus on Atmospheric Missions (J-C. Lambert, IASB-BIRA)........... 16 Summary of the key issues (J-C. Lambert, IASB-BIRA) ................................................................................... 16 SESSION 5: NATIONAL AND REGIONAL REPORTS ON OZONE RESEARCH AND MONITORING Region 1: Africa ................................................................................................................................................. 17 Region 2: Asia ................................................................................................................................................. 18 Region 3: South America, and Region 4: Central America and the Caribbean ............................................... 19 Region 4: North America, Central America and the Caribbean ....................................................................... 20 Region 5: South West Pacific ............................................................................................................................ 22 Antarctica........................................................................................................................................................... 22 Region 6: Europe............................................................................................................................................... 22 SESSION 6: DISCUSSION OF RECOMMENDATIONS Recommendations............................................................................................................................................. 27 Research Needs ......................................................................................................................................... 27 Systematic Observations ............................................................................................................................ 28 Data Archiving............................................................................................................................................. 31 Capacity Building ........................................................................................................................................ 32 Other matters ................................................................................................................................................... 33 Closure of the meeting.................................................................................................................................... 33 Annex A: List of Participants.................................................................................................................... 35 Annex B: Agenda..................................................................................................................................... 43 Annex C: National Reports ...................................................................................................................... 47 INTRODUCTION The Seventh meeting of the Ozone Research Managers of the Parties to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer was held at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Secretariat in Geneva, from 18 to 21 May 2008. The meeting was organized by the Ozone Secretariat of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) together with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), in accordance with decision I/6 of the Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer. A list of participants is provided in Annex A. OPENING OF THE MEETING The meeting started on Sunday, 18 May 2008 with part I of the opening of the meeting and the election of the Chairperson, in conjunction with a dinner reception hosted by UNEP. Welcome address (Liisa Jalkanen) On behalf of WMO, Ms. Liisa Jalkanen, Chief, Atmospheric Environment Research Division, welcomed the participants to the Seventh meeting of the Ozone Research Mangers. She noted that the meeting had close to a hundred participants from about