Paname 2022: campaigns to study air quality and urban climate

Interior of the SAFIRE ATR 42 research aircraft in ACROSS scientific flight configuration. Vincent MICHOUD ACROSS 2022 / CNRS - The 2022 Paname initiative 1 aims to better understand the causes and effects of climate change in urban environments through intensive measurement campaigns planned for the Paris region this summer. From the studies, information will be derived that is key to making cities more resilient to future climate realities. Results may also help rethink how to build urban areas so as to combat several risks to human health: intense heat, air pollution and other extreme weather events. These are major issues given that today, nearly 50% of the world's population lives in urban areas. Paname 2022 involves ten projects, selected to develop synergy and to pool resources and measurements. While some projects have already been launched, most will begin in June 2022 in the Île-de-France region. Measurement sites are located in the city centre (Hôtel de ville, Sorbonne Université, Paris-Rive-Gauche) as well as in neighbouring suburbs (Bois de Vincennes, Créteil, Ecole Polytechnique), the peri-urban area of Rambouillet forest, and even as far as Orléans.