The EU-funded GEMS project ran from 1 March 2005 to 31 May 2009. Operation and improvement of the systems developed during GEMS is continuing in a new EU-funded project MACC - Modelling Atmospheric Composition and Climate. Products from MACC are being displayed on the GEMS web pages during a transitional period.
The EU-funded GEMS project started on 1 March 2005 under the leadership of the late Tony Hollingsworth, and came to an end on 31 May 2009. GEMS achieved its objectives of building and demonstrating the operation of global and regional analysis and modelling systems that monitor and predict variations in atmospheric constituents that force climate change and influence air quality, UV radiation and solar energy resources. 32 partner organizations were involved in total, with ECMWF developing and operating the core global component and supporting the regional component with data handling, validation and display of results.
Italy dust (Source: ESA)
Operation and improvement of the systems developed during GEMS is continuing in a new EU-funded project MACC - Modelling Atmospheric Composition and Climate. Most of the partners in GEMS will continue in MACC, but the project will increase in size to 48 partners as activities are included from a related ESA-funded project called PROMOTE, which concludes at the end of August 2009. MACC will adopt a more operational approach to the running of its systems and have a stronger focus on the interface with users and downstream service providers. It will run from 1 June 2009 until late in 2011, when it should be ready to emerge as a fully operational atmospheric service under the European Union’s GMES - Global Monitoring for Environment and Security - programme.
Pending the establishment of a capability for product display and delivery from the MACC web pages, the GEMS web pages are being used to present the results from MACC’s operation of global and regional systems.
Paris (Source: AIRPARIF)