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member states. In this case some budget will be allocated from this source with the approval of the PMC and
the EC.
Contingency budget
Similarly, a contingency budget of ~€29k has been reserved and included in the DMI RTD/Other budget. In
any large project there may be the possibility of unforeseen costs, for example, equipment replacement, the
need to repeat modelling runs, to undertake additional sample analysis or additional meetings. In this event
budget will be allocated to the appropriate partner with the approval of the coordinators.
Justification of costs for RTD Activities
Travel and subsistence has been allocated to all main partners to attend 2 project meetings per year and
further technical meetings (€6-10k for partner). There is no allocation of budget for groups from USA,
Canada, etc. as they will fund their involvement in MEGAPOLI from their own national resources.
Despite that the main idea is using maximally all existing available data from previous international and
national measurement campaigns, the consortium is planning some own measurements, required specific
costs for equipments etc., mostly for the Paris megacity plume study.
Justification of costs and Implementation plan for the Paris field study:
Specific measurement campaigns will be set up in the Paris region during 2009: a ground based segment
with observations at an urban and a suburban site during one summer and winter month and an airborne
segment with dedicated flights with the French ATR-42 aircraft in the Paris plume during one summer
month.
Ground based segment
The following three ground based sites will be operated, the first two being funded by MEGAPOLI:
• Urban background super-site (roof platform of the LHVP laboratory). This site is part of the
AIRPARIF network. Located at 20m height, at the doors of the Monsouris Park, 200m from “Place
d’Italie”. Preliminary field campaigns have shown that this site is representative of the city
background atmosphere.
• Suburban site (Plateau de Saclay, 30km south-west of Paris; roof platform of the LSCE laboratory).
This site is a permanent monitoring station for Greenhouse gases (RAMCES network) located on the
Plateau de Saclay (30km south-west of Paris).
• Downwind site at a greater distance from the Paris centre, at about 60 – 100 km. If additional
funding is obtained, mobile laboratories (e.g. from LISA, PSI, and MPIC, see below) will be placed
in the expected sector of the plume (at one of the eight rural AIRPARIF sites), based on forecast
with the CHIMERE model.
• Puy de Dome. This altitude site (at 1200 m height) is located at 400 km in the south of the Paris.
This site represents an aged aerosol, which will allow for a general comparison of fresh and aged
aerosol.
The first two sites will be equipped by MEGAPOLI partners CNRS-LISA, CNRS-LSCE, FORTH, IfT, PSI,
UHEL with high quality instruments allowing for aerosol chemical, and size distribution speciation,
measurement of aerosol optical and hygroscopic measurements and related precursor gas measurements (see
table Appendix 1). Lidar measurements will be available at three km from the Saclay site at the SIRTA
station (LIDAR monitoring site, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau). Each group has foreseen costs for
instrument housing (on the LVHM or LSCE roof) on its own budget. A sum of 20 k€ is provisioned for
additional logistic costs. The extent of operation at the downwind site depends on the amount of national
funding. The operation of the Puy de Dome site is fully covered by national funding as well as the EC project
EUSAAR, such that no funding from MEGAPOLI is required here. In addition, groups from outside the
project (S. Borrmann, MPIC) showed interest to participate on their own funding with a fully equipped
mobile laboratory for measurements of the spatial distribution of aerosol parameters or at a site downwind of
the Paris plume.
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