Research Goals
- Find out more about the overarching research goals of the Physics and Chemistry of the atmosphere. Overarching international bodies and agencies are strongly involved in environmental research and the publication and application of its results:
Centre National d‘Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
https://cnes.fr/en
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS)
https://ceos.org/
Copernicus, the Earth observation component of the European Union’s Space programme
https://www.copernicus.eu/en/about-copernicus
COSPAR (Committee on Space Research)
https://www.cospar-assembly.org/assembly.php
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
https://www.dlr.de/en/
European Space Agency
https://www.esa.int/
Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)
https://gcos.wmo.int/en/home
Group on Earth Observations
https://earthobservations.org/index.php
Integrated Land Ecosystem – Atmosphere Processes Study (ILEAPS)
https://ileaps.org/
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
https://www.ipcc.ch/
International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (CACGP)
http://www.icacgp.org/
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)
http://www.igbp.net/
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
https://global.jaxa.jp/
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
https://www.nasa.gov/
Ozone Secretariat and Montreal Protocol
https://ozone.unep.org/
Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate (SPARC, WMO WCRP)
https://www.wcrp-climate.org/sparc
Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS)
https://www.solas-int.org/about/solas.html
The International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS)
https://www.iamas.org/
UNFCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
https://unfccc.int/
United Nations Convention on Long Range Transport of Pollution
https://unece.org/environmental-policy-1/air
United Nations Environment Programme
https://www.unep.org/
WMO World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)
https://www.wcrp-climate.org/
World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)
https://public.wmo.int/en