A two-day PEEX Implementation Meeting was held in April in Helsinki, Finland. The aim of the meeting was to have general overview of the PEEX activities in 2012-2019 and to discuss future upcoming activities together with the PEEX offices at the Moscow State University (MSU) and Institute of Digital Earth and Remote Sensing (RADI), Chinese Academy of Sciences. PEEX was launched in Oct 2012 in Helsinki and the current network consists of ca 4000 researchers mainly coming from Nordic countries, Russia and China.
PEEX Science Plan was published in 2015 and scientific results have mainly been published in the ACP PEEX Special Issue. PEEX is aiming to analyze and make and overview of the research results achieved during the last five years, in 2015-2019. We will analyze the main results and findings for the Northern Eurasia, Arctic Ocean and China, and how well we have covered the PEEX Science Plan and answered on the large-scale research questions. We are highlighting the main findings published in peer-reviewed journals and scientific progress, including methodological, done by the PEEX community. The Call-for-Contributions was launched in May.
In 2018 INAR / PEEX-HQ launched GlobalSMEAR brochures for establishing or upgrading in situ stations based on SMEAR concept. GlobalSMEAR / Earth Observatory is a fundamental part of PEEX Research Infrastructure collaboration with Russia and China.
During the last five years PEEX has published several concept papers on research agenda and in situ stations networks. The most recent concept paper is published by Vihma et al “Towards an advanced observation system for the marine Arctic in the framework of the Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX)” Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 1941-1970, 2019, doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-1941-2019. Refer to Arctic marine regions one of the core project of the PEEX Marine is iCUPE coordinated by Prof. Tuukka Petäjä (INAR/UHel). New Arctic iCUPE data products are coming soon. In addition, new marine data products will soon be available, a related paper to new data products published by Uotila, P., Goosse, H., Haines, K., Chevallier, M., Barthélemy, A., Bricaud, C., et al. (2018). An assessment of ten ocean reanalyses in the polar regions. Climate Dynamics, 1–38.
Relevant PEEX Moscow State University activities in 2017-2019 are the recently established PEEX Roshydromet collaboration and the coordination of the Baikal Selenga Network. Roshydromet collaboration is connected to PEEX by recent FMI-Roshydromet Protocol singed in April 2019 and by MSU-Roshydromet Collaboration Agreement signed in spring 2019. In addition, MSU is coordinating the Baikal Selenga Network (BaSeNet) as a separate subprogram in PEEX. A new Environmental Atlas monograph was just released.
PEEX China activities in 2017-2018 were carried out by INAR, which is the official center of excellence of the DBAR program. RADI, the partner institute to PEEX in China, has a lot of scientific work in progress, mainly based on satellite data and carried out by the Chinese DBAR framework. Topics under investigations are:
- Heat Wave and Urban Heat Island,
- Evaluation and inter comparison of water use efficiency- MODIS-derived with global eddy covariance flux data and a process model
- Toward evaluation and improvement of an ecosystem productivity simulation model in estimating gross primary productivity across Europe
- Mediterranean Climate evapotranspiration estimating by integrating precipitation, vertical root distribution and satellite-retrieved vegetation information with a Penman-Monteith approach
- Global Landcover-Souces of dust storms (SDS)
The results of these topics will be published in the DBAR journal, the Journal on Big Earth Data. Lappalainen et al. addressed the opportunities opened up by the China’s Belt and Road Initiative to the agenda of PEEX / GlobalSMEAR program in the PEEX Silk Road agenda published in J. BigEarth Data.
Read more on ongoing /upcoming PEEX activities/projects and discussion from the sources below:
- Ongoing PEEX projects described here
- Current PEEX core project funded by Academy of Finland (2018-2020) – “ClimEco” including status/progress for work-package objectives, tasks, deliverables, publications; collaboration with Russian partners involved; planned science education events (training course in June 2019 and school in August 2020; both in Russia);
- PEEX will apply in June 2020 for EGU Special Session (SpS) and organize PEEX meetings in EGU-2020 (3–8 May 2020, Vienna, Austria).
- PEEX HQ is expecting a final decision on the Arctic Arena funded by Prince Albert Foundation in June 2019.
Read more on upcoming PEEX Education:
- MSU main education activity this year: International Summer Field School (29 Jul – 11 Aug 2019, Russia) “Anthropogenic and natural soil landscapes in European Russia: from sea to sea: Monitoring, modeling and managing urban soils and green infrastructure”; Read and apply here to this unique summer school and travel to remote places. Contact Pavel Konstantinov, kostadini(a)mail.ru for information.
- UHEL/INAR Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) “Climate.Now” provides an accessible tool on climate change education for an international audience.
- UHEL/INAR course “Analysis of atmosphere-surface interactions and feedbacks” (Hyytiälä, Finland, 8-19 October 2019); Read/apply here. Contact person: Katja Lauri.
- UHEL/INAR research training course on “Seamless / Online Integrated Meteorology-Chemistry-Aerosols Multi-Scale and –Processes Modelling” (24-29 Jun 2019, Tyumen, Russia); Read/apply here. Contact person: Alexander Mahura.
- UHEL/INAR/MSU/UTMN joint YSSSchool on “Multi–Scales and –Processes Integrated Modelling, Observations and Assessment for Environmental Applications” (27 Jul – 7 Aug 2020, Moscow, Russia). More information will be available soon.
Visit the PEEX website here to read the Meeting’s minutes, participants list and agenda.
Outreach issues
- Newsletter/Blog, web, social media established and are under development
- PEEX website
- PEEX Blog
- GlobalSMEAR website
- PEEX Twitter: @PEEX_NEWS and @GlobalSMEAR
- Future challenge to expand the list of contributors and followers. The network of Prof. Lassi Heininen (Arctic regions, geopolitics) will be integrated to PEEX communication flows.
- U-Arctic is important target audience in this context.
- Discussion on how to develop PEEX / U-Arctic-Arctic-Boreal-Hub communications channels, outreach.
- Discussion to be part of Weibo and WeChat, a well-known Chinese media for individual and groups. PEEX will consider to create accounts.
Some concluding remarks and planning of the next steps:
- INAR has two PEEX professors: Tuukka Petäjä and Federico Bianchi. Other universities could investigate the possibility to have also PEEX professors.
- Prof. Sergey Zilitinkevich made a scientific statement about the importance of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) for all PEEX studies; to have more ABL and turbulence measurements and studies in PEEX domain
- PEEX Russian office:
- Black Carbon meeting(s) in September 2019 (Moscow, Russia & Oslo, Norway)
- PEEX at EGU-2020 (May 2020) provides good visibility and new contacts for the PEEX approach. Also the round table discussion and separate meeting is good to have for the strategical discussions.
- Will coordinate collecting replies from Russian partners to PEEX Science Overview.
- PEEX Chinese office:
- China will be more active in PEEX issues, as example HiMAC project and its DBAR activities.
- New in situ stations to be established within next 3 years
- Deepen the collaboration related to satellite / in situ data
- In addition to EGU-2020 special PEEX session, proposal of having the next PEEX science conference in China
- H2020, EU FP9 and other funding possibilities should be searched in details, this would be the main chance for more connecting with DBAR group, and its surrounding efforts.
Upcoming events:4th UNESCO International Conference on the Status and Future of the World’s Large Rivers 3-7 August 2020, Moscow, Russia. CO-ORGANISATION Russian Geographical Society, Pan-Eurasian Experiment and Russian Hydrometeorological Society.
Text by Hanna Lappalainen, INAR/University of Helsinki, PEEX Headquarters
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