Agenda of the ITMS General Assembly 2025
23-25 September 2025
Im Neuenheimer Feld 267 (Bioquant), Room 041, UHEI, Heidelberg, Germany
Time | Day 1 (Tuesday 23.09.2025) | Day 2 (Wednesday 24.09.2025) | Day 3 (Thursday 25.09.2025) | |
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08:00 | Organisation |
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09:00 | Gathering with coffee | ITMS-Q&S Talks | SAB Feedback | |
09:30 | Poster hanging (till 14:00) | |||
10:00 | Welcome Address | Report on Overarching Focus Group Discussions | ||
10:30 | Keynote Talks | Coffee break | ||
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11:00 | Poster Session 2 | Parallel Module Sessions | ||
11:30 | ITMS-M Overview | |||
12:00 | Lunch at Braeustadel (self-paid) |
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12:30 | Lunch at Braeustadel (self-paid) | Closing & Farewell / Outlook to Phase 2 | ||
13:00 | Lunch catering | |||
13:30 | ITMS-M Talks | |||
14:00 | ITMS-B Talks |
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15:00 | ITMS-V Overview |
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15:30 | Coffee break |
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16:00 | Poster Session 1 & Icebreaker with Beer/Wine/Pretzels | Poster Session 3 |
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16:30 |
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17:00 | Overarching Focus Group Discussions | SAB |
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17:30 |
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18:00 |
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19:00 | Open Dinner at multiple reserved Restaurants (self-paid) | Joint Dinner at Restaurant: Urban Kitchen Heidelberg (self-paid) |
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19:30 |
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Day 1 (Tuesday 23.09.2025)
Day 1 - Welcome Address
Time : 10:00 | Room : 041 | Chair : @Sanam Vardag | Notes : not applicable | Responsibility : @Beatrice Ellerhoff
Author/Presenter | Title | Duration |
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Sanam Vardag | Welcome and organization | 7 |
Charlotte Hoppe | Welcome from Federal Ministry of Transport (Bundesministerium für Verkehr) | 5 |
André Butz | Welcome from Uni Heidelberg | 7 |
Christoph Gerbig / Andrea Kaiser-Weiss | Welcome from ITMS | 10 |
Day 1 - Keynote Talks
Time : 10:30 | Room : 041 | Chair : @Beatrice Ellerhoff | Notes : @Max Reuter | Responsibility : @Beatrice Ellerhoff
Author/Presenter | Title | Presentation ID | Duration |
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Michaela Hegglin | The critical role of Earth Observation in supporting the Paris Climate Agreement | TK01 | 25+10 |
Sander Houweling | Methane emission monitoring and the role of satellites | TK02 | 25+10 |
Day 1 - ITMS-M Overview
Time : 11:40 | Room : 041 | Chair : @Beatrice Ellerhoff | Notes : @Lena Danyeli | Responsibility : @Lena Danyeli
Author/Presenter | Title | Presentation ID | Duration |
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Christoph Gerbig | ITMS-M overview of current status | TM01 | 15+5 |
Day 1 - ITMS-M Talks
Time : 13:30 | Room : 041 | Chair : @Christoph Gerbig | Notes : @Lena Danyeli | Responsibility : @Lena Danyeli
Author/Presenter | Title | Presentation ID | Duration |
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Saqr Munassar (MPI-BGC) | Biogenic CO2 flux estimates derived from CarboScope-Regional inversion over Europe (ITMS-M WP-M.2 CSR) | TM02 | 15 min |
Yang Xu (MPI-BGC) | Investigating ecosystem respiration CO2 signals using night-time ICOS tower observations (ITMS-M WP-M.5) | TM03 | 15 min |
Valentin Bruch (DWD) | CH4 inversion results from Demonstrator 2025 (ITMS-M WP-M.8) | TM04 | 10min |
Niels Heinrich Keil / Anne Marlene Blechschmidt / Niklas Becker (DWD) | ITMS DWD data assimilation developments (ITMS-M WP-M.9 and M.10) | TM05 | 12 min |
Diego Jimenez (DWD) | Constructing the ITMS DWD system from modules: An Overview (ITMS-M WP-M.11 and M.13) | TM06 | 8min |
Sanam Vardag (UHEI) | Towards urban emission estimates (ITMS-M WP-M.12) | TM07 | 15 min |
Philipp Dietz (KIT IMKASF) | Estimating model transport error using the terminator toy chemistry testcase (ITMS-M WP-M.7) | TM08 | 15 min |
Day 1 - ITMS-V Overview
Time : 15:00 | Room : 041 | Chair : @Christoph Gerbig | Notes : @Lena Danyeli | Responsibility : @Jennifer.Mueller-Williams
Author/Presenter | Title | Presentation ID | Duration |
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Elena Zwerschke | ITMS-V Overview and Progress | TV01 | 15 + 5 |
Day 1 - Poster Session 1
Time : 16:00 | Room : Poster hall | Chair : @Michael Weimer | Responsibility : @Max Reuter
Author/Presenter | Title | Presentation ID |
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Navid Mouji (DWD) | Planetary Boundary Layer Height: Insights from Model-Observation Comparisons and Parameterization Approaches | PM01 |
Niklas Becker (DWD) | Comparison of Emission Assimilation Methods | PM02 |
Diego Jiménez de la Cuesta Otero (DWD) | Constructing the system from modules | PM03 |
Hannes Imhof (KIT) | The ITMS QS Data Stream - an overview (QS) | PQ01 |
Hassane Moutahir (KIT) | Forest Greenhous Gas Emissions (WP4) | PQ02 |
Ingeborg Bußmann, Kirstin Dähnke, Tina Sanders, Yoianba Voynova (AWI, Hereon) | GHG Emissions from Coastal Waters and Estuaries of Germany - a first upscaling (Coast-GEm) | PQ03 |
John Akubia (TI), Hannes Imhof (KIT) | Current Status and Achievements of ITMS-Q&S: Provision of High-Resolution Spatio-temporal A-Priori GHG Emission and Activity Datasets | PQ10 |
Matthias Claß and Oisin Boersma | First continuous H₂O and CO₂ isotopologue measurements at a forest and a grassland site (ITMS-B2 ISOMONEAE) | PB01 |
Lediane Marcon-Henge | Bridging Ecosystem Stations and Tall Tower Measurements (ITMS-B2 FeaViTa) | PB02 |
Jakob Thoböll | Initial steps towards top-down CH4 emission Estimates of localized emitters using in-situ and remote sensing Ground based and Aircraft Data (ITMS-B2 TEGAD) | PB03 |
Sieglinde Callewaert/Thilo Heinecke (Universiteit Antwerpen) | VERBE: towards a greenhouse gas emission monitoring and verification system for Belgium - current status | PE01 |
Day 2 (Wednesday 24.09.2025)
Day 2 - ITMS-Q&S Talks
Time : 09:00 - 10:30 | Room : 041 | Chair : @Clemens Scheer | Notes : @Hannes Imhof | Responsibility : @Hannes Imhof
Author/Presenter | Title | Presentation ID | Duration |
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Ralf Kiese (KIT) | Overview ITMS-Q&S - Developments, Highlights, Challenges | TQ01 | 15 + 5 |
Theo Wernicke (UBA) | High-resolution Spatiotemporal a-priori Emission Datasets | TQ02 | 15 + 5 |
Roland Fuß (TI) | Methane Emissions in Germany from the Agricultural and Livestock Sector - a general overview | TQ03 | 15 + 5 |
Andrew Smerald (KIT) | N2O Emissions from Agricultural land in Germany - a comparison the the NIR and challenges in sectoral splitting | TQ04 | 10 + 5 |
Sophia Walther (MPI-BGC) | Towards operational generation of robust data-driven biogenic flux priors | TQ05 | 10 + 5 |
Day 2 - Poster Session 2
Time : 11:00 | Room : Poster hall | Chair : @Michael Weimer | Responsibility : @Max Reuter
Author/Presenter | Title | Presentation ID |
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Valentin Bruch (DWD) | ITMS DWD Demonstrator: Method and Validation | PM04 |
Jakob Böttcher (DWD) | Sector-resolved modelling of CO2 transport with ICON-ART | PM05 |
Philipp Dietz (KIT IMKASF) | Update on the super-simplified OH chemistry scheme for ICON-ART | PM06 |
Steffen Herrmann, Wolfgang Stümer (TI) | Biomass from the Federal Forest Inventory (Agri-For-Live) | PQ04 |
Seabstian Grayek (TI) | Updated Biogassystem Implementation in Py-GASEM (WP2 & Agri-For.Live) | PQ05 |
Melanie Thurner (KIT) | Freeze Thaw Routine Title tbd (Agri-For-Live) | PQ06 |
Christoph Gerbig | GHG observations from IAGOS: update and outlook (ITMS-B WP1.2) | PB04 |
John Akubia | Long-term continuous ecosystem-atmosphere fluxes within ICOS and TERENO (ITMS-B WP1.3) | PB05 |
Michael Weimer | XCO2 Precision Analysis for the Future CO2M Satellites (ITMS-B WP1.5) | PB06 |
Koen Klemann and Philippe Steeghs (KNMI) | Towards a Dutch National System for Monitoring Geenhouse Gas Emissions | PE02 |
K-Working Group | Key Performance Indicators across ITMS Modules | PK01 |
Day 2 - ITMS-B Talks
Time : 14:00 | Room : 041 | Chair : @Andreas Fix | Notes : @Michael Weimer | Responsibility : @Max Reuter
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