The Izaña Atmospheric Research Center, together with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, have presented six studies in the “NDACC-IRWG/TCCON 2013 Meeting“, which was held in Abashiri-City (Hokkaido, Japan) from 10 to 14 June 2013.

This conference, jointly organised by the networks TCCON (Total Carbon Column Observing Network) and the infrared group of NDACC (Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change), is the annual meeting of all the international groups working with the FTIR technique (Fourier Transform InfraRed) for monitoring the atmospheric composition. Within this forum, the new improvements on the FTIR technique are shown as well as the current research studies using this measurement system.

The following contributions were shown:

1. “Validation of EUMETSAT’s Operational IASI Trace Gas Products by ground-based FTIR: the Projects VALIASI and inmense” by García, O.E., Schneider, M., Hase, F., Wiegele, A., Blumenstock, T., Sepúlveda, E., August, T., Gómez-Peláez, A., Barthlott, S., and González, Y., (oral presentation).
2. “Tropospheric CH4 as observed by NDACC FTIR and GAW at several globally distributed sites” by Sepúlveda, E., Schneider, M., Hase, F., García, O.E., Barthlott, S., González, Y., Gisi, M., Kohlhepp, R., Dohe, S., Blumenstock, T., Strong, K., Weaver, D., Palm, M., Sadeghi, A., Deutscher, N.M., Warneke, T., Notholt, J., Bader, W., Mahieu, E., Jones, N., Griffith, D.W.T., Smale, D., Sherlock, V., Robinson, J., Gomez-Peleaz, A., Meinhardt, F., Steinbacher, M., and Aalto, T., (oral presentation).
3. “MUSICA activities” by Schneider, M., Barthlott, S., Hase, F., González, Y., Yoshimura, K., García, O.E., Sepúlveda, E., Gómez-Peláez, A., Gisi, M., Kohlhepp, R., Dohe, S., Blumenstock, T., Wiegele, A., Christner, E., Strong, K., Weaver, D., Palm, M., Deutscher, N.M., Warneke, T., Nothlot, J., Lejeune, B., Demoulin, P., Jones, N., Griffith, D.W.T., Smale, D., and Robinson, J., (oral presentation)