- Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate - is the current pre-operational atmospheric service of the European GMES programme. MACC provides data records on atmospheric composition for recent years, data for monitoring present conditions and forecasts of the distribution of key constituents for a few days ahead. MACC combines state-of-the-art atmospheric modelling with Earth observation data to provide information services covering European Air Quality, Global Atmospheric Composition, Climate, and UV and Solar Energy.

MACC is funded under the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union and began on 1 June 2009. MACC is undertaken by a consortium drawn largely from the partners in the earlier GEMS and PROMOTE projects, whose core systems and service lines provided the starting point for MACC.

The Second MACC General Assembly will be primarily an internal one, focussing on the assessment and development of the project. It will be held at the Conference Centre of Météo-France in Toulouse, during the week 18-22 October 2010. See the program page for details on sessions.

A poster session will take place Tuesday 19th end of afternoon. This is an opportunity for all project participants to present their results in more details than possible in the main plenary session overview presentations. Please visit the registration page for submitting a poster presentation.

Hotels in Toulouse can be booked via the registration page.

Further information on the MACC project is available at http://gmes-atmosphere.eu.