Biographies

Erik Andersson is seconded by ECMWF (the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts with HQ in Reading, UK) to the European Commission (Brussels) where he works for DG-DEFIS within the Copernicus earth-observation program. Erik has a scientific background with a PhD in Atmospheric Physics from Stockholm University. He has many years of experience working on data assimilation, the global observing systems, and the value of observations for earth monitoring for climate and weather forecasting. At the European Commission, Erik is working on developing Copernicus Services for the monitoring of CO2 emissions, focusing on anthropogenic fossil fuel emissions in the context of the Paris Agreement. The CO2 monitoring and validation service will be based on satellite and in-situ measurements. For WMO (Geneva), Erik is leading the expert team on the Earth observing system design and evolution (as its chair).