External News: UK Ammonia Emissions

 

UK agricultural emissions of ammonia negatively impact human health and the vitality of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. There are few direct policies regulating agricultural ammonia emissions in the UK and routine surface measurements for evaluating bottom-up inventories used to inform policies and assess compliance are non-existent for fluxes and sparse for concentrations.

 

DUKEMS 2nd User Group Meeting

A second meeting of the DUKEMS User Group was held on 17 February 2021, with more than 25 participants representing the project team and number of atmospheric modellers across the UK modelling community. Professor Ranjeet Sokhi kindly agreed to chair this user group meeting. Following on...

DUKEMS 1st Stakeholder Event

In response to a growing interest in the project by key stakeholders, the DUKEMS team decided to hold a first stakeholder event much sooner than originally planned. The first meeting of the stakeholder group is now scheduled for the 14th of October 2020 and will be held via ZOOM. The main...

DUKEMS 1st User Group Meeting

A first meeting of the DUKEMS User Group was held on 9 July 2020, with more than 30 participants representing the project team and number of atmospheric modellers across the UK modelling community. The main objective for this meeting was to establish the user group as one key element of how the...

DUKEMS project kicked off

Due to the impact of the CoVID-19 pandemic, original plans for a face-to-face kick-off meeting in Birmingham had to be changed and instead, a virtual event was held on the 18th of March on ZOOM. The focus of this first meeting was to refine the research and implementation plans of the individual work packages, and to integrated those plans across the key work programmes around the design and implementation of the data infrastructure, the development of the the priority science objectives and establishing evaluation and quality assurance & control processes.