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authored ~ 30 peer-reviewed articles on mechanisms, emission and mitigation of non-CO2 greenhouse gases,
particulate matter, heavy metals and POP and participated in 3 EU projects. (FP-5, FP-6). He is a reviewer
for the IPCC guidelines (2006) and contributor to IPCC Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty
Management in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (2000)
Dick van den Hout is a senior scientist at TNO and has been responsible for improving the user orientation
of research in several FP research projects and networks, e.g. the Integaire network on urban air pollution
mitigation. Since 1993 he has been the Commission’s primary consultant on the development and
implementation of air pollution policies and legislation. He has participated in many international working
groups, of which several dealt with abatement strategies. He has been the head of the European Topic Centre
on Air Quality and is a visiting Prof. at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.
Recent and relevant publications
Schaap M., H.A..C. Denier van der Gon, (2007): On the variability of Black Smoke and carbonaceous aerosols in the
Netherlands, Atmospheric Environment, In Press.
Schaap, M.; Denier Van Der Gon, H. A. C; Dentener, F. J.; Visschedijk, A. J. H.; Van Loon, M.; ten Brink, H. M.;
Putaud, J.-P.; Guillaume, B.; Liousse, C.; Builtjes, P. J. H. (2004): Anthropogenic black carbon and fine aerosol
distribution over Europe, J. Geophys. Res., 109 (D18), D18207,10.1029/2003JD004330.
Denier van der Gon H.A.C., A. Bleeker, (2005): Indirect N2O emission due to atmospheric N deposition for the
Netherlands, Atmospheric Environment, 39, 5827–5838.
Denier van der Gon, H.A.C., M.J. Kropff N. van Breemen, R. Wassmann, R.S. Lantin, E. Aduna, T. M. Corton , H.H.
van Laar, (2002): Optimizing grain yields reduces CH4 emissions from rice paddy fields, Proceedings National
Academy of Sciences (PNAS) USA, 99 (19), 12021-12024.
Schaap M., F. Sauter, R.M.A. Timmermans, M. Roemer, G. Velders, J. Beck, P.J.H. Builtjes (2007): The LOTOS-
EUROS model: description, validation and latest developments, Int. J. of Environmental Pollution, In Press.
Partner 15: UK MetOffice (MetO)
Expertise and experience of the organization
The Met Office has well over 20 years of world-leading expertise in climate modelling. Currently 150
scientists research climate science in the Met Office’s Hadley Centre for Climate Change. The fields
represented include climate monitoring, climate modelling, climate variability, quantifying uncertainty,
understanding climate change, and climate-chemistry-ecosystem feedbacks. Research on atmospheric
composition and climate includes global modelling of aerosol and gas-phase reactive chemical constituents.
The focus here is on the direct and indirect radiative and climate impacts of these constituents through their
interactions with clouds, terrestrial and ocean ecosystems and the land surface. The atmospheric composition
team are currently participating in the EU projects EUCAARI, ACCENT and GEMS.
Role and contribution
The Met Office will co-lead WP6 and will contribute significantly to WP5. In WP6 the Met Office will lead
the work on global climate effects of megacities and will contribute with its HadGEM2 climate model which
includes the UKCA package of interactive aerosols and reactive gases. In WP5 the Met Office will
contribute to tasks 5.5 and 5.6.
Principal personnel involved
Dr. William Collins
Graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in Natural Sciences and a PhD in Particle
Physics. He holds an MSc in Weather and Climate from the University of Reading. He has worked in the
Met Office for since 1993 and with others built the Met Office tropospheric chemistry transport model. He is
involved in the EU EUCAARI project and has previously been involved in STACCATO. He has contributed
as a co-author to the IPCC third assessment report, and as an expert reviewer to the IPCC forth assessment
report. He has authored, or co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed papers.
Dr. Olivier Boucher
Olivier Boucher gained a PhD in Physics in 1995 and an Habilitation in Physics in 2003. He was a junior
scientist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) from 1996 to 2005. He is now a senior
scientist at the CNRS on secondment to the Met Office which he joined in 2005 as Head of the “Climate,
Chemistry, Ecosystems” team. His main speciality is the study of the climatic effects of aerosols in relation
to radiation and clouds. Olivier has been a lead author in the IPCC Special Report on Aviation and the
Global Atmosphere and the IPCC Working Group I Third Assessment Report.
Dr. Michael Sanderson,
D.Phil in Atmospheric Chemistry (1994) has published over 20 articles in peer-reviewed literature in the
field of atmospheric chemistry. Research work has included, modelling of global trace gas concentrations,
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