GAWTEC & YESS-Community Webinar on GHGs and Atmospheric Composition: Martin Steinbacher

The availability of reliable scientific data to characterize the atmosphere’s chemical composition is crucial for understanding air pollution and climate change, their drivers, and their impacts. Data within and across monitoring networks need to meet specific data quality objectives and compatibility goals to be useful for robust analyses. Thus, observations have to be of known quality, sufficient precision and need to be traceable to common scales. The lecture will present the existing challenges but also the required considerations and procedures in terms of implementation and operation. Particular attention will be given to quality assurance and quality control when operating the observations on a long-term basis.