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M. De Mazière NDACC SC 2011, Nov. 11, 2011

NORS

Demonstration Network Of ground-based Remote Sensing observations in support of the GMES Atmospheric Service


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• European InitiativeGlobal Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) 6 thematic areas- atmosphere- land- ocean- security - emergencies- climate

Supported by ESA and EU since early 2000as European contribution to GEOSS

In NORS: Focus on GAS = GMES Atmospheric Service


Context (2/3)• A number of ESA and EU projects have been funded in preparation of

the operational GMES Atmosphere Service (GAS): PROMOTE www.gse-promote.org/

until end 2009 GEMS gems.ecmwf.int/

until end of May 2009 MACC www.gmes-atmosphere.eu/

These projects have developed comprehensive data analysis and modeling systems for monitoring the global distributions of atmospheric constituents important for climate, air quality (including aerosol) ozone and UV radiation, with a focus on Europe.

In particular MACC, Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate, is the current pre-operational atmospheric service of the European GMES programme. MACC provides data records on atmospheric composition for recent years, data for monitoring present conditions and forecasts of the distribution of key constituents for a few days ahead. MACC combines state-of-the-art atmospheric modelling with Earth observation data to provide information services covering European Air Quality, Global Atmospheric Composition, Climate, and UV and Solar Energy.


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• Actual weakness of MACC:Poor validation of the services, (almost) no use in MACC of ground-based remote sensing data for validation

EU FP7 call in Nov. 2010 asking for Continuation of prototype Service MACC-II R&D projects for improving GAS in the future NORS

Overall Objective:Perform the required research and developments to optimize the NDACC data and data products for the purpose of supporting the quality assessments of the future GAS.


Status • Submitted in Nov. 2010• Passed evaluation and negotiation• Start Nov. 1, 2011• Duration: 33 months

• KO meeting, Brussels, Dec. 14, 2011


General Objectives• Perform the required research and developments to optimize

the NDACC data and data products for the purpose of supporting the quality assessments of the future GAS.

• target NORS data products • tropospheric and stratospheric ozone columns and vertical

profiles up to 70 km altitude;• tropospheric and stratospheric NO2 columns and profiles;• lower tropospheric profiles of NO2, HCHO, aerosol

extinction;• tropospheric and stratospheric columns of CO• tropospheric and stratospheric columns of CH4

• 4 NDACC techniques: Lidar, MW, FTIR, UV-VIS DOAS

• 4 NDACC pilot stations


NORS pilot stations

3 out of 4 are also TCCON sites


• to implement procedures for operational data delivery of NDACC data to GAS actors with a delay of maximum 1 month;

• to provide an extensive characterisation of targeted NDACC data and user documentation. The NDACC data will also be evaluated in comparison with satellite data that are assimilated in the GAS products, and against other network data like Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) surface data and the Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) data, in a comprehensive and coordinated way;

• to investigate the integration of ground-based data products from various sources (ground-based in-situ surface and remote-sensing data, and satellite data), and to provide the integrated data products to GAS. Hereto, new scientific methodologies will be developed.

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Objectives (2/2)• to provide ground-based measurement time series back to

2003 in support of the re-analysis products of GAS. NORS will provide and archive quality-controlled long-term reference data sets for open access by GAS and GMES users, a need expressed in the GAS Implementation Group Final Report.

• to develop and implement a new GAS-compliant web-based application for operational validation of GAS products using the NORS data products. In this validation service, better methodologies for validation will be included, based on the improved characterisation of the ground-based data. This service (based on GECA) will be user-oriented.

• Capacity building: • To ‘export’ project achievements to whole NDACC

community• to support the extension of NDACC to stations outside

Western Europe, namely in the tropics, in China, Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe.


Overall strategy of the workplan


Connections with GAS, ESA, NDACC, WMO

The planned composition of the Steering Committee is as follows:• the Project Management Team (coordinator and WP leaders);• representatives of MACC (GAS)• a representative of ESA for the GECA environment (T. Fehr);• a representative of EEA for the coordination of the in-situ

component in the GMES Atmosphere area;• G. Braathen (WMO), as co-chairman for NDACC;• O. Tarasova, responsible at WMO for matters related to

Greenhouse gases, Reactive gases, GAW stations and QA/QC;• J.C. Lambert, as representative of CEOS WGCV----------------------• The Project Management Team (PMT) will consist of the

coordinator and the WP leaders. They are part of the Steering Committee (SC) which includes additional members who are not involved in the project, but who have strong links to the project because of their role in GMES or in NDACC.


Connection to NDACC

• Connection to NDACC is important !

• Via role of partners in the NDACC organisation• WG co-chairmen• SC members

• Use of NDACC DHF for submission of rapid delivery data in GEOMS HDF format • to be agreed


PartnersParticipant no. *

Participant organisation name / Short name in the proposal Country

1 (Coordinator)

Institut d’Aéronomie Spatiale de Belgique/ BIRA-IASB BE

2 Eidgenoessische Materialpruefungs- und Forschungsanstalt / EMPA

CH

3 Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial / INTA

ES

4 Universitaet Bern / UBern

CH

5 Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie / KIT

DE

6 Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique / CNRS

FR

7 Universitaet Bremen / UBremen

DE

8 Université de Liège / ULg

BE

9 Max Planck Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften / MPIC

DE

10 Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg / UH

DE

11 Science and Technology B.V. / S&T

NL


Extension beyond W-EuropeObservatory Country Instrument NORS partner

involvedLocal partner

Xianghe Integrated Observatory

China MAXDOAS BIRA-IASB Institute for Atmospheric Physics / Chinese Academy of Sciences

Beijing China Mini-MAXDOAS MPIC Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences

Kourovka Russia FTIR UBremen Univ. of Yekaterinburg

Tomsk Russia FTIR KIT Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics

Paramaribo Suriname FTIR UBremen Anton de Kom University

Paramaribo Suriname MAXDOAS UH Meteorological Service of Suriname

Mexico City Mexico FTIR KIT UNAM

Rio Gallegos Argentina O3 Lidar CNRS CEILAP-CONICET

Bujumbura Burundi MAXDOAS BIRA-IASB Univ. of Bujumbura

Addis Ababa Ethiopia FTIR KIT Addis Ababa University

Belgrano Antarctica MAXDOAS INTA Instituto Antártico Argentino (IAA)

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