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Application: 2.7 Atmospheric Composition Information Services in Urban and Populated Areas

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Name	2.7 Atmospheric Composition Information Services in Urban and Populated Areas
Description	Applications that target limited areas (with horizontal resolution of a few km or smaller and stringent timeliness requirements to support services related to weather/climate/pollution, such as air quality forecasting.
Organization	World Meteorological Organization
Focal Point	Richard Eckman richard.s.eckman@nasa.gov
Earth System Application Category	2. Atmospheric Applications

Variables measured in this Application Area

Subdomain	Variables
Atmospheric chemistry	HCHO CH4 mole fraction CO CO2 mole fraction NO2 SO2 CO2 column average dry air mixing ratio CH4 column average dry air mixing ratio NO2 Tropospheric column HCHO Tropospheric column O3 mole fraction NO2 Mole fraction (near surface) CO mole fraction (near surface) SO2 mole fraction (near surface)

Requirements defined for 2.7 Atmospheric Composition Information Services in Urban and Populated Areas (14)

This tables shows all related requirements. For more operations/filtering, please consult the full list of Requirements
Note: In reading the values, goal is marked blue, breakthrough green, threshold orange
Application-dependent Technical Priority (ATP) Magenta and Relative priority of the attributes Red

Id	Variable	Layer	App Area	Uncertainty	Stability / decade	Hor Res	Ver Res	Obs Cyc	Timeliness	Coverage	Conf Level	Val Date	Source	General Comment
870	CO2 mole fraction	PBL	2.7 Atmospheric Composition Information Services in Urban and Populated Areas	0.5 ppm 1 ppm 2 ppm	0.1 ppm 0.15 ppm 0.2 ppm	0.5 km 2 km 4 km	20 m 100 m 500 m	6 min 24 h 7 d	24 h 30 d 182 d	Local	firm	2022-01-05	GAW Expert Team on Atmospheric Composition Network Design and Evolution	Uncertainties are provided as 2 sigma. They represent the sum of random and systematic error.
877	CO2 column average dry air mixing ratio	TC	2.7 Atmospheric Composition Information Services in Urban and Populated Areas	0.6 ppm 1 ppm 1.6 ppm	0.1 ppm/decade 0.15 ppm/decade 0.2 ppm/decade	0.5 km 2 km 4 km		60 min 12 h 3 d	24 h 7 d 14 d	Global	firm	2021-12-09	GAW Expert Team on Atmospheric Composition Network Design and Evolution	Uncertainties are provided as 2 sigma. They represent the sum of random and systematic error. ESA URD-GHGCCI-v2016, Green report
879	CH4 mole fraction	PBL	2.7 Atmospheric Composition Information Services in Urban and Populated Areas	8 ppb 18 ppb 36 ppb	1 ppb 2 ppb 5 ppb	0.5 km 2 km 4 km	20 m 100 m 500 m	60 min 24 h 7 d	24 h 30 d 182 d	Local	firm	2022-01-05	GAW Expert Team on Atmospheric Composition Network Design and Evolution	Uncertainties are provided as 2 sigma. They represent the sum of random and systematic error.
886	CH4 column average dry air mixing ratio	TC	2.7 Atmospheric Composition Information Services in Urban and Populated Areas	7 nmol/mol 10 nmol/mol 20 nmol/mol	1 nmol/mol 2 nmol/mol 5 nmol/mol	0.1 km 2 km 4 km		60 min 12 h 3 d	24 h 7 d 14 d	Global	firm	2021-12-09	GAW Expert Team on Atmospheric Composition Network Design and Evolution	Uncertainties are provided as 2 sigma. They represent the sum of random and systematic error. ESA URD-GHGCCI-v2016, TCCON
892	CO		2.7 Atmospheric Composition Information Services in Urban and Populated Areas							Global	firm		GAW Expert Team on Atmospheric Composition Network Design and Evolution
895	NO2		2.7 Atmospheric Composition Information Services in Urban and Populated Areas							Global	firm		GAW Expert Team on Atmospheric Composition Network Design and Evolution
899	NO2 Tropospheric column		2.7 Atmospheric Composition Information Services in Urban and Populated Areas							Global	firm		GAW Expert Team on Atmospheric Composition Network Design and Evolution
903	HCHO Tropospheric column		2.7 Atmospheric Composition Information Services in Urban and Populated Areas							Global	firm		GAW Expert Team on Atmospheric Composition Network Design and Evolution
910	O3 mole fraction	Near Surface	2.7 Atmospheric Composition Information Services in Urban and Populated Areas	2 % 4 % 10 %		1 km 2 km 5 km		60 sec 10 min 60 min	10 min 30 min 3 h	Local	firm	2022-01-05	GAW Expert Team on Atmospheric Composition Network Design and Evolution	Ref: Cooper, O, et al., 2014, Elem Sci Anth, 2:29, DOI:https://10.12952/journal.elementa.000031. Uncertainties are provided as 2 sigma. They represent the sum of random and systematic error.
916	NO2 Mole fraction (near surface)	Near Surface	2.7 Atmospheric Composition Information Services in Urban and Populated Areas							Local	firm		GAW Expert Team on Atmospheric Composition Network Design and Evolution
921	CO mole fraction (near surface)	Near Surface	2.7 Atmospheric Composition Information Services in Urban and Populated Areas							Local	firm	2022-01-26	GAW Expert Team on Atmospheric Composition Network Design and Evolution
924	HCHO	Near Surface	2.7 Atmospheric Composition Information Services in Urban and Populated Areas							Local	firm	2022-01-26	GAW Expert Team on Atmospheric Composition Network Design and Evolution
930	SO2	UTLS FT PBL	2.7 Atmospheric Composition Information Services in Urban and Populated Areas							Local	firm	2022-01-26	GAW Expert Team on Atmospheric Composition Network Design and Evolution
933	SO2 mole fraction (near surface)	Near Surface	2.7 Atmospheric Composition Information Services in Urban and Populated Areas							Local	firm	2022-01-26	GAW Expert Team on Atmospheric Composition Network Design and Evolution