Intergrated Greenhouse Gas Monitoring System for Germany (ITMS)
Welcome to the ITMS Project
ITMS (“Integriertes Treibhausgas-Monitoringsystem für Deutschland“ in English as “Integrated Greenhouse Gas Monitoring System for Germany”) is a BMFTR (Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt)-funded project designed to enable Germany to operationally monitor the sources and sinks of the three most important long-lived greenhouse gases (GHG) CO2, CH4, N2O via independent measurements. The collaborative project will support Data-driven GHG monitoring against "alternative facts" and "fake news" and in the long term result in the establishment of an operational GHG data assimilation service at the DWD (Deutscher Wetterdienst).
As part of the ITMS project, an estimate of German methane emissions for 2021 based on observational data has been published for scientific discussion. The system developed at Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) serves as a demonstrator for ITMS.