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LMO Description
Organisation CNR ISAC
Projects
Desert-dust impact on air quality through model-predictions and advanced sensors observations DIAPASON View Project 
Details
Level of authority National
Italy
Formal Mandate On September 1, 2011, the EU LIFE+ program approved the project DIAPASON, "Desert-dust impact on air quality through model-predictions and advanced sensors observations", under the Grant Agreement number LIFE10 ENV/IT/000391.
The DIAPASON proposal was set up to significantly support EU Member States at taking robust measurements of Saharan advections to respond to the air quality (AQ) Directive 2008/50/EC.
The proposed methodology will be tailored to national and regional environmental agencies needs, and will be disseminated at European level through guidelines and recommendations shared with the project stakeholders.
An important project mandate is therefore to network with International environmental initiatives including INSPIRE: in this respect, the DIAPASON project can be proposed as a pilot project to feed or test INSPIRE implementing rules. The information generated by DIAPASON could improve/integrate current measurements under the implementation of the directive INSPIRE by Member States at national level.
Main Activities The DIAPASON project will design a new INSPIRE-compliant technology (i.e., a new INSPIRE compliant equipment ready to use under the AQ Directive 2008/50/EC), and disseminate INSPIRE compliant best practice guidelines and recommendations, which could improve current measurements in relation to EC environmental objectives.
LMO URL www.isac.cnr.it 
Comments
LMO CONTACT INFORMATION
Contact Person Francesca Costabile
Organisation CNR - ISAC
Function Researcher
Address Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, Roma
Country ITALY 
Tel +39 06 49934288
Fax  
PROPOSED ROLE IN INSPIRE DEVELOPMENT
Which role(s) do you foresee for the LMO in INSPIRE development
  1. register a project to test/revise/develop the draft Implementing Rules
  2. implement pilot projects to test/revise/develop the draft Implementing Rules
  3. contribute to awareness raising and training
  4. be kept informed
Area of work/experience
Geographic Domain: International
Description of geographic extent: Europe
Societal Sector Research
Specific Expertise
Data Specifications
Data and Service Sharing
INSPIRE Data Themes
Theme UserProducerCoordinator
Human health and safety    
Environmental monitoring Facilities
Atmospheric conditions
Meteorological geographical features
Previous Experience relevant for INSPIRE development Gathering information, measuring relevant environmental data , designing technology and disseminating best practice guidelines and recommendations, publishing results .
Primary Business Research - Environmental management  
Environmental application domains Atmospheric Science and Climate  

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