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ESA Climate Change Initiative programme status March 2011

ESA Climate Change Initiative programme status March 2011. mark dohery esa. CCI. objectives implementation projects and teams key issues. CCI objectives.

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ESA Climate Change Initiative programme status March 2011

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  1. ESA Climate Change Initiative programme status March 2011 mark dohery esa

  2. CCI • objectives • implementation • projects and teams • key issues

  3. CCI objectives Realize the full potential of the long-term global EO archives that ESA, together with its Member states, has established over the last thirty years..... ….. as a significant and timely contribution to the ECV databases required by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 6 Years / 75 Meuro

  4. Copenhagen COP15 • “ • Encourages CEOS to continue coordinating and supporting the implementation of the satellite component of GCOS • Urges Parties that support space agencies involved in global observations to enable these agencies to continue to implement, in coordinated manner through CEOS, the actions identified in the updated CEOS report, in order to meet the relevant needs of the Convention, in particular by ensuring long-term continuity of observations and data availability • ”

  5. a major scientific challenge e.g. sea level ECV

  6. Two climate action paths GCOS requirements <=> CEOS response GCOS-82 in 2003 GCOS-92 in 2004 GCOS-107 in 2006 CEOS response 2006 CCI is part of ESA’s contribution to the coordinated international response

  7. CCI: International Coordination CCI: International coordination Main External Partners: • UNFCCCwhich coordinates the interests and decisions of its Parties on Climate Policy, • GCOSwhich represents the scientific and technical requirements of the Global Climate Observing System on behalf of UNFCCC, • CEOSwhich serves as a focal point for Earth Observation related activities of Space Agencies (e.g NOAA, NASA, JAXA, EUMETSAT) • Individual Partner Space Agencieswith whom ESA cooperates bilaterally (e.g. EUMETSAT) • International Climate Research Programmes, which represent the collective interests and priorities of the worldwide climate research, (e.g. WCRP) • EC and National Research Programmeswhich establish research priorities and provide resources for climate research community withinEurope (e.g. DG Research, DG-JRC) • GMES Partners: DG Enterprise and Industry, user DGs ENV, EEA…

  8. (Gravity and Ocean Circulation Explorer) Earth Explorers (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) (Polar Ice Monitoring) GOCE (Magnetic Mission) (Clouds, Aerosols & Radiation Mission) Earth Watch ESA EO Systems past present future Since 1977 1990 2000 2010 2030 Earthnet:Access for European users to non-European missions: Landsat, SeaWifs, NOAA, JERS, MODIS, ALOS, Proba, Bird, Scisat... Meteo METEOSAT Second GenerationMSG-1, -2, -3 METEOSATM-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 MTG in cooperation with EUMETSAT METOP-1, -2, -3 (Gravity and Ocean Circulation Explorer) Science to better understand the Earth System SMOS CryoSat-2 (Atmospheric Dynamics Mission) ADM/Aeolus SWARM EarthCare EE 7 Applications Services ERS-1, -2 ENVISAT Sentinel 1 Sentinel 2 to initiate long term monitoring systems and services Sentinel 3 Sentinel 4/5 Sentinel 5PC GMES in cooperation with EC

  9. GMES Sentinels Sentinel 1 – SAR imaging All weather, day/night applications, interferometry 2012 (A), 2014 (B) TBD Sentinel 2 – Multispectral imaging Land applications: urban, forest, agriculture,.. Continuity of Landsat, SPOT 2013 (A), 2014 (B) TBD Sentinel 3 – Ocean and global land monitoring Wide-swath ocean colour, vegetation, sea/land surface temperature, altimetry 2013 (A), 2014 (B) TBD Sentinel 4 – Geostationary atmospheric Atmospheric composition monitoring, trans- boundary pollution 2018 Sentinel 5 and Precursor – Low-orbit atmospheric Atmospheric composition monitoring 2014 (5P), 2019

  10. CCI starts with 11 ECVs CCI First Steps (11 ECVs) : Later in CCI (10 ECVs) :Not in CCI (24 ECVs)

  11. Data from each sensor contributes to FCDR of several ECVs FCDR of each ECV requires data from several sensors multiple sensors….consistency….. ESA missions data => FCDRs => ECVs Sea Level SST Ocean Colour Sea state Ocean salinity Sea ice concentration Lakes Glaciers & ice caps Land cover faPAR LAI Biomass Burned area & active fire Soil moisture (research) Snow area Albedo Cloud properties O3 total and profiles Aerosol OD & other props GHGs distribution Upper air winds

  12. what we want to achieve specialized climate research groups specialized EO data groups ECV 1 consistent global satellite data products for climate research international climate research community ( GCOS WCRP’…) ECV 2 ECV 3 international EO community (CEOS)

  13. CCI: phased implementation Phase 1: (3y) scientific user consultation detailed specifications prototyping Phase 2:(3y) operational systems Implementation production Phase 3: (6y !) user assessment

  14. Develop andvalidate algorithms to meet GCOS ECV requirementsfor (consistent, stable, error-characterized) global satellite data products from multi-sensor data archives Optimize impact of ESA EO missionsdata on climate data records Produce, within R&D context,most complete and consistent possible multi-sensor global satellite data productsfor climate research and modelling Generate completespecifications for an operational productionsystem Strengthen inter-disciplinary cooperationbetween international earth observation, climate research and modelling communities,in pursuit of scientific excellence next 3 years => CCI phase 1 Cardinal Requirements

  15. CCI Project teams CMUG UKMO Hadley

  16. CMUG • Climate modeling user group (CMUG) • Hadley Centre; Meteo-F; MPI; ECMWF • gateway to international climate modelling community • focal point for all ECV teams

  17. International Science ref body Climate Modelling Users Group x y z CCI project teams Science Leader Project Manager Specialised climate research team System Engineer(s) EO Science Team research Institutes

  18. open requirements open open algo dev, inter-comp, selection system & product proto-typing product validation & User assessment open Operational system specification open CCI projects schedule x 11 `2010 `2011 `2012 `2013

  19. CCI global data products • some ECVs are... • - state variables of models, • - forcing, or boundary conditions, • poorly or not represented in Models • inter-linked:e.g. cloud, aerosol, • of probabilistic nature e.g. clouds

  20. confronting observations and models Mr. EO Miss. Clim Science Mr. Modeller knowledge exchange … to better quantify climate change ….

  21. coupled climate models In yellow – used within CCI

  22. forecast / re-analysis / other In yellow – used within CCI

  23. ECV Data Climate Research Package climate assessment data and models confrontation uncertainty characterization product validation algorithm selection algorithms evaluation product specification user requirements EO Archives (L1B) CCI: multiple levels of scrutinypeer reviewand feedback round-robin data package

  24. key issues • uncertainty characterization • openness, traceability, repeatability • data standards • scientific cooperation

  25. integrated and consistent approach • to generating space-based climate records

  26. CCI teams are working now together…

  27. CCI news Additional ECVs starting 2011 • sea_ice_cci • ice_sheets_cci • soil_moisture_cci

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