The EUMETNET AutoPollen programme: establishing a prototype automatic pollen monitoring network in Europe

Clot, Bernard; Gilge, Stefan; Hájková, Lenka; Magyar, Donát; Scheifinger, Helfried; Sofiev, Mikhail; Bütler, Fabienne; Tummon, Fiona

doi:10.1007/s10453-020-09666-4

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“…under the umbrella of the European grouping of national meteorological services, EUMETNET. 50 This 5-year programme brings together a wide range of actors from across Europe involved in pollen monitoring, some already with operational automatic monitoring sites (e.g., 51,52 ). AutoPollen aims to establish a prototype of a fully automatic pollen monitoring network, develop standards, foster collaboration across Europe and support wide exchange and use of data.…”

Section: Within This Context the Autopollen Programme Began In 2018mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Existent automatic monitoring networks 51,52 as well as those in the development or planning stages are currently collaborating together through the EUMETNET AutoPollen Programme. 50 While this programme is coordinating the nascent network of stations, this will need to be reinforced and further extended to form a 'backbone' network across all of Europe. This network will ultimately require at least 200-300 representative sites strategically located across Europe covering the main bioclimatic zones and providing data that can be used for forecasts at the continental scale.…”

Section: Responding To End-user Needs-the Ideal Pan-european Pollen Monitoring Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To meet the end‐user needs outlined above, a comprehensive strategy and integrated infrastructure needs to be put in place (see Figure 1). Existent automatic monitoring networks 51,52 as well as those in the development or planning stages are currently collaborating together through the EUMETNET AutoPollen Programme 50 . While this programme is coordinating the nascent network of stations, this will need to be reinforced and further extended to form a ‘backbone’ network across all of Europe.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Within this context, the AutoPollen Programme began in 2018 under the umbrella of the European grouping of national meteorological services, EUMETNET 50 . This 5‐year programme brings together a wide range of actors from across Europe involved in pollen monitoring, some already with operational automatic monitoring sites (e.g., 51,52 ).…”

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The need for Pan‐European automatic pollen and fungal spore monitoring: A stakeholder workshop position paper

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Background: Information about airborne pollen concentrations is required by a range of end users, particularly from the health sector who use both observations and forecasts to diagnose and treat allergic patients. Manual methods are the standard for such measurements but, despite the range of pollen taxa that can be identified, these techniques suffer from a range of drawbacks. This includes being available at low temporal resolution (usually daily averages) and with a delay (usually 3-9 days from the measurement). Recent technological developments have made possible automatic pollen measurements, which are available at high temporal resolution and in real time, although currently only scattered in a few locations across Europe.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Section: Within This Context the Autopollen Programme Began In 2018mentioning

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“…Groups of researchers who have started using automatic particle detectors improve particle recognition algorithms, verify data [ 5 , 6 , 10 ], analyse the possibilities of their use in air quality models [ 24 ], and form new experience step by step. Some automatic particle detectors network development activities are being coordinated by the EUMETNET AutoPollen programme [ 25 ].…”

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Clustering approach for the analysis of the fluorescent bioaerosol collected by an automatic detector

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Automatically operating particle detection devices generate valuable data, but their use in routine aerobiology needs to be harmonized. The growing network of researchers using automatic pollen detectors has the challenge to develop new data processing systems, best suited for identification of pollen or spore from bioaerosol data obtained near-real-time. It is challenging to recognise all the particles in the atmospheric bioaerosol due to their diversity. In this study, we aimed to find the natural groupings of pollen data by using cluster analysis, with the intent to use these groupings for further interpretation of real-time bioaerosol measurements. The scattering and fluorescence data belonging to 29 types of pollen and spores were first acquired in the laboratory using Rapid-E automatic particle detector. Neural networks were used for primary data processing, and the resulting feature vectors were clustered for scattering and fluorescence modality. Scattering clusters results showed that pollen of the same plant taxa associates with the different clusters corresponding to particle shape and size properties. According to fluorescence clusters, pollen grouping highlighted the possibility to differentiate Dactylis and Secale genera in the Poaceae family. Fluorescent clusters played a more important role than scattering for separating unidentified fluorescent particles from tested pollen. The proposed clustering method aids in reducing the number of false-positive errors.

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An integrative environmental pollen diversity assessment and its importance for the Sustainable Development Goals

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Societal Impact Statement Pollen relates to many aspects of human and environmental health, which protection and improvement are endorsed by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. By highlighting these connections in the frame of current challenges in monitoring and research, we discuss the need of more integrative and multidisciplinary pollen research related to societal needs, improving health of humans and our ecosystems for a sustainable future. Summary Pollen is at once intimately part of the reproductive cycle of seed plants and simultaneously highly relevant for the environment (pollinators, vector for nutrients, or organisms), people (food safety and health), and climate (cloud condensation nuclei and climate reconstruction). We provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the many and connected roles of pollen to foster a better integration of the currently disparate fields of pollen research, which would benefit from the sharing of general knowledge, technical advancements, or data processing solutions. We propose a more interdisciplinary and holistic research approach that encompasses total environmental pollen diversity (ePD) (wind and animal and occasionally water distributed pollen) at multiple levels of diversity (genotypic, phenotypic, physiological, chemical, and functional) across space and time. This interdisciplinary approach holds the potential to contribute to pressing human issues, including addressing United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, fostering social and political awareness of these tiny yet important and fascinating particles.

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The EUMETNET AutoPollen programme: establishing a prototype automatic pollen monitoring network in Europe

Cited by 29 publications

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The need for Pan‐European automatic pollen and fungal spore monitoring: A stakeholder workshop position paper

The need for Pan‐European automatic pollen and fungal spore monitoring: A stakeholder workshop position paper

Clustering approach for the analysis of the fluorescent bioaerosol collected by an automatic detector

An integrative environmental pollen diversity assessment and its importance for the Sustainable Development Goals

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