GEMS (Global and regional Earth-system Monitoring using Satellite and in-situ data) is an European Union funded Integrated Project (IP) within the Sixth Framework Programme. The project will create a new European operational system for operational global monitoring of atmospheric chemistry and dynamics and an operational system to produce improved medium-range & short-range air-chemistry forecasts, through much improved exploitation of satellite data.
The T&D group is involved in GEMS within the Regional Air Quality (RAQ) sub-project. BOLCHEM, along with models from other partners, is used in order to build up a pre-operational systems for forecasting the chemical composition of the atmosphere at a regional scale.