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Ivan Petiteville (ESA, CEOS)

ESA and CEOS Contributions to Climate Research

Agenda Item Agenda Item 77

Slide: 2 CEOS SIT-24 |Darmstadt, Germany | 9-11 September 2009

Space Agencies’ Support to Climate Research

ESA and CEOS space agencies mainly involved in:• Observations of the Earth,• Provision of EO products derived from those

observations

Support Climate and Earth System research by providing the data measurements and data products (up to geophysical parameters) for various usages:• Research,• Operational organizations like Met offices,• Support to Decision Making,…


Provision of EO data

(from K. Trenberth: Observational needs for climate prediction and adaptation, WMO Bulletin 57(1), January 2008)Earth Explorers ENVISAT/ERS National Missions

Meteo Missions(EUMETSAT)

GMES Sentinels

Data Access


ESA’s Contribution

Every day, ESA provides a large amount of EO data for free public access.

Instrument data come from various satellite missions and instruments • both ESA and Third-Party missions: ENVISAT, ERS, GOCE,

SMOS, NOAA & Metop AVHRR, Terra-Aqua Modis, GOSAT, etc …

ESA programmes in support to Climate:• GMES (Sentinels missions)• Climate Change Initiative,

o Initially, production of 11 ECVs among the set of ECVs requested in the GCOS IP.


ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI)

-Overview


Two climate action paths

CEOS IP for GEOSS in 2007GEOSS 10-year plan in 2005

CEOS response 2006GCOS-107 in 2006GCOS-92 in 2004GCOS-82 in 2003


ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI)

Re-processing ex archive (e.g. calibration)

ECV generation(e.g. validation & bias)

ECV assimilation& assessment

Education & Awareness

ActiveFeedback Loop

Long Term Archiving ProgrammesMulti-mission infrastructure

International Climate ProgrammesEC & MS R&D Programmes

IPCC Process, UNFCCC

INPUT FROM

OUTPUT TO

“Deliver”

“Show”

“Gather”

“Exploit”


CCI Programme Objectives To realize the full potential of the long-term global Earth Observation archives that ESA together with its Member states have established over the last thirty years, as a significant and timely contribution to the ECV databases required by United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

• Implement all steps necessary for the systematic generation and regular updating of the relevant ECVs,

• A coherent and continuous suite of actions fully coordinated with on-going international efforts in the climate change community (eg. WCRP, IGBP, SCOPE, etc)

• Ensure full capital is derived from on-going & planned ESA missions for climate purposes,

• Focus on 21 ECVs (ESA missions :18 primary, 3 secondary)

6 Years / 75 MEuro


ENVISAT Lifetime and Operations Extension


ESA CCI: Scope & Plans

- 21 ECVs in scope of ESA CCI- GCOS requirements: 45 ECVs

- 24 ECVs not addressed by ESA CCI- Operational Meteorology and in-situ-based- Leading contributions by other CEOS Agencies

- e.g. EUMESAT, NOAA, JAXA- SCOPE

- First CCI activities on 11 ECVs- 25 MEuro total over 3 years- ITT Q4 2009- CCI activity on remaining 10 ECVs in future

- Major ESA EO Programme developments on other ECVs - Earth Explorer Missions- Envisat continuity- Sentinel Missions


Satellite-based ECVs

Atmosphere

Surface( 0, 0, 6 )

Air Temperature; Precipitation ; Air pressure; Water vapour; Surface radiation budget; Wind Speed & direction;

Upper air( 1, 1, 3 )

Cloud properties, Wind speed & directionEarth radiation budget; Upper-air temperature; Water vapour;

Composition( 3, 0, 0 )

Carbon dioxide Methane & other GHGs; Ozone; Aerosol properties

Ocean

Surface( 4, 2, 1 )

Sea-surface Temp; Sea-level; Sea-ice; Ocean colour;Sea state; Sea-surface salinityCarbon dioxide partial pressure

Sub-surface( 0, 0 , 7 )

Temperature; Salinity; Current; Nutrients; Carbon; Ocean tracers; Phytoplankton

Terrestrial( 3, 7, 4 )

Glaciers & ice caps; Land Cover; Fire disturbanceFraction of absorbed photo-synthetically active radiation; LAI , AlbedoBiomass, Lake levels, Snow cover, Soil moistureWater use, Ground water, River dischargePermafrost and seasonally-frozen ground

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


First 11 ECVS of ESA CCI

Sea LevelSea Surface TemperatureSea IceOcean ColourLand CoverFire DisturbanceGlaciers and Ice CapsCloud PropertiesAerosol PropertiesOzoneGreenhouse Gases (CO2, CH4)


ESA CCI: First Phase

First Phase has a duration of 3 years: Definition, Algorithm Development, Prototyping Phase – 25 MEuro

All ESA Programmes are implemented via contracts with industry and research organizations in ESA states

Contracts are awarded via open competitive tender – CCI ITT to has been issued, deadline end of Jan. 2010, 11 contracts on ECVs to start early 2010 and 1 additional contract interacting with Key Climate Modelling Groups


Main External Partners:

CCI: International Coordination

• CEOS which serves as a focal point for Earth Observation related activities of Space Agencies (e.g NOAA, NASA, JAXA, EUMETSAT). Space Arm of GEO

• UNFCCC which coordinates the interests and decisions of its Parties on Climate Policy,

• GCOS which represents the scientific and technical requirements of the Global Climate Observing System on behalf of UNFCCC,

• Individual Partner Space Agencies with whom ESA cooperates bilaterally (e.g. EUMETSAT)

• International Climate Research Programmes e.g. WCRP , which represent the collective interests and priorities of the worldwide climate research,

• EC and National Research Programmes which establish research priorities and provide resources for climate research community within Europe (e.g. DG Research, DG-JRC)

• GMES Partners: EC DG Enterprise and Industry, user DGs ENV, EEA…


ESA Climate Science Advisory Body

WCRP is represented at Climate Science Advisory Body together with representatives from:• Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), • Joint WMO/IOC Commission for Oceanography Marine

Meteorology (JCOMM), • Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS)• European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting

(ECMWF)• ESA Earth Science Advisory Committee (ESAC)

“Climate Science Advisory Body […] provides authoritative advice to the Executive, reflecting the interests and priorities of the worldwide climate research community, with respect to the GCOS requirements and ESA’s response via this programme.”


CEOS’ Contribution (1/3)

Coordinated approach implemented in response to the 1st GCOS IP in 2006, through a series of 59 actions. • Execution of actions involves both Agency

resources and CEOS groups such as WGCV and the CEOS Virtual Constellations.

On-going review of new 2010 version of the GCOS IP • coordinated response being prepared for the end of

2010.



Specific actions on-going to better coordinate the Climate-related activities like SCOPE-CM, CEOS response to GCOS, etc .. between CEOS, WMO, CGMS, etc … • two dedicated meetings in 2010 on the subject with

participants from those organizations and other entities.

WCRP expectations are considered through the GCOS IP and by involving WCRP in the Space Agencies discussions.



CEOS co-leads two GEO “Climate” Tasks

“Key Climate Data from Satellite Systems” (CL-09-02b) . CEOS is POC

“Sustained Reprocessing and Reanalysis of Climate Data” (CL-06-01). POC is WCRP (K.Trenberth)• Ensure the development of international mechanisms to

coordinate and maintain sustained climate data reprocessing and reanalysis efforts. With regard to the reprocessing of historical datasets (to obtain consistent long-time series of satellite records).


Thank you !!!….

Questions ?

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