A brief, open GEIA meeting was held from 6:30-8:00 p.m. on September 19, 2002. Dr. Cunnold reviewed the recommendations made at the previous GEIA meeting in June 2001 held at the POET emissions meeting, and the GEIA progress since that time. Those recommendations were for the GEIA web site to:

1. Provide references to alternative emission scenarios.
2. Provide a brief review of the currently available emission distribution estimates, compound by compound.
3. Incorporate data sets used to derive those emissions, those reported for deriving particularly year-to-year variations in the emissions.
4. To interact more closely with modelers so as to ways to test the effectiveness and correctness of the emissions data bases.
5. To provide temporal trends in emissions.
   Over the past year progress has been made particularly with respect to the reviews (item 2 above). Ten reviews were on the web site as of the meeting and ten were expected momentarily. Five requests for reviews had received no response but some individuals who would help with these were identified at the meeting. Dr. Granier reported that the proceedings of the POET emissions workshop would be available for purchase shortly. An open discussion was held regarding present and future directions for GEIA. Some of the ideas and suggestions are indicated below:
• That GEIA's should report to IGBP instead of to IGAC and that the sphere of interest for developing data bases should extend from the atmosphere to include the oceans and the biosphere.
• Some modelers noted that the GEIA data bases were particularly useful because of their common format. Others noted that for inverse modeling studies the emission estimates needed to include uncertainties.
• For climate change studies it was indicated that algorithms need to provide algorithms relating emissions to other physical parameters such as temperature or rainfall. Although complementary data sets of the latter are readily available, other relevant data sets such as the global distribution of wetlands are incomplete but would be a desirable addition to the GEIA web site. Links to land use maps were also mentioned as being desirable.
• GEIA web links to regional emission data bases would be useful.
• GEIA should be more involved in organizing modeling activities to evaluate emission data bases, e.g. those used by the IPCC. Examples of such activities in Europe were cited.

Most of these ideas reinforce the GEIA objectives resulting from the POET workshop. A sign-up sheet was circulated asking for volunteers to help with reviewing and/or developing new data bases. There were 23 signees. GEIA and other IGAC activities are invited to supply research topics for IGAC II.