GMES Atmosphere Services (GAS) Arno Kaschl [email protected] GMES Bureau European Commission.
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Transcript of GMES Atmosphere Services (GAS) Arno Kaschl [email protected] GMES Bureau European Commission.
EARTH OBSERVINGSYSTEMS
(space, airborne, in-situ)
PUBLICPOLICIES
(Environment & Security)
Information
Needs(policy driven)
GMES
joint initiative of the European Commission and ESA
relevant information to policy-makers and many other users autonomous capacity to generate & deliver Earth
observation-derived information on environment & security: strategic for EU
Three Service areas based on Earth systems:• Land Monitoring: initially European land cover & urban spots• Marine Monitoring: sea state & ecosystem characteristics over
global ocean & European regional seas• Atmospheric Monitoring: atmospheric composition for air quality
(European) and climate forcing (global), ozone monitoring (global) and solar energies
Further, horizontal components:• Emergency Response• Security• Climate Change
GMES Services
For service definition + user input, the following mechanism has been put in place:
• User Workshop on 6/7 December 2006100 participants from 27 countries and from relevant European institutions (i.e. DG’s, Agencies,etc.) Workshop Report (+ Orientation Paper): recommendations for a future Core Service
• Implementation Group + 4 Working Groups, expert groups (45 people, 18 countries), has met 6 times since June 2007 to provide guidelines and recommendations on scope, functionality/architecture, core and downstream services, space and in situ observation infrastructure, governance, funding of each GMES service;
• Service preparation: • FP6 - GEMS about 10 M€• ESA GMES Service Element - PROMOTE about 5 M€• FP7 – MACC about 11 M€
• Operational phase
Definition of GAS
Introducing GAS
• Services already exist dynamical/physical (meteorological)
• Atmospheric composition ("the "chemosphere") is of major importance for environment, climate & climate change.
• GAS aims at integrating the monitoring & modeling of the atmospheric constituents at global, regional & local scales.
GAS and its service chain will contribute to serve a broadened community of users in different fields (environment, health, transport, renewables..).. Achieving this is the main challenge.
GAS will improve the description, understanding, forecasting of atmosphere expand it: surface fluxes (emission/deposition), scenarios depending upon man-made decisions.
Scope: towards users
GAS should address the needs of
Many user communities including - national and regional authorities & environmental agencies- national meteorological & health agencies - research/science community -private sector/SMEs- EU citizens- NGOs - Other GMES services -developing countries-...
EU and MS : policies in - air quality - climate change mitigation & adaptation- renewable energies - ozone layer preservation
International Commitments: - Kyoto- CLRTAP- Montreal
« GMES economy »
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CS versus DS
Air quality• Local air quality forecasts (urban scale) boundary conditions provided by GAS• Improved air-quality-related alerts and forecasts by health services for extreme events (combined heat, UV-B and poor AQ) • Analysis of local air polution abatement policies• Supporting development of effective air pollution abatement measures through proper apportionment of sources…
Climate forcing• Identification, assessment and monitoring of regional/local sources and sinks of greenhouse gases
Solar radiation• Solar-radiation potential analysis, policy scenario analysis, energy yield mapping, support ot network management, plant management…
CS criteria • Geographical scale: global, regional (= European)• Meet needs of DS & end users
• Avoid duplications of efforts and operations
Examples for GAS DS
Core Service content
Four principal themes (1) air quality (AQ)(2) climate forcing (CF) (3) stratospheric O3 (+UV)(4) solar radiation
data • Observational • NRT (AQ)• GCOS ECV (CF) • gridded fields• easy access
Added value from • combined space & in situ • models (assimilation)
products• Forecasts• Assessments :
•Trends derived from reanalysis•'low volume' information •Contributions to scenarios •Sources and sinksService Outputs
Global component: ozone & UV-radiation, greenhouse gases, aerosolsEuropean component: air quality, CO2 sources
GAS architecture
Downstream ServicesOther GMES Core Services
EUROPEAN ENSEMBLE
Monit., Assim. & Forecasting
EUROPEAN ENSEMBLE
Monit., Assim. & Forecasting
EUROPEAN ENSEMBLE
Monit., Assim. & Forecasting
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RESEARCH
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USERS
OBS ACQUISITION and PRE-PROC
QC, Validation, Multi-sensor processing
OBSERVATION SUPPLY and CALIBRATION
Space Agencies / In Situ ground networks / Aircraft programmes
CORE
R & D
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PRODUCTS
QA
GLOBAL Monitoring, Assim. & Forecasting
Implementation: Foundations
Existing assets
World leading numerical weather prediction capacities (ECMWF, NMS) Modelling and information systems (national, regional and local public institutions or private companies) European & international observation capacities
o European air quality & atmospheric chemistry in situ observation networkso European space observations systems: EUMETSAT (operational) & ESA (R&D)o International cooperation framework e.g. for data exchange
Research institutions and communities• Previous and current R&D projects funded at national or European level
• Main challenges: Ensure sustainability of existing assets on an operational basis, with appropriate governance and funding built into the system Implement the appropriate level of integration and coordination Enable adaptation and evolution driven by user needs
development
Space observations: recommendations by IGIn situ observations: recommendations by IG; EEA as coordinator to lead a consolidation process; EC funding to support contributions to international networksUser involvement: needs to become a priority; creation of user forums to interact with MACC and post-MACCR&D: essential for a successful GAS
Rely on on-going (GEMS & PROMOTE) & future (MACC) pilot projects to prefigure CS implementation
IG might advise EC and project partners
Target is a fully operational service by 2014, flexible to incorporate advances; e.g. full coupling of chemistry and weather models (ca. 2020), new capacities: Sentinel-4 data (2017+)
data policy
GAS services are public goods & wholly funded by the EU & Member States C.S. outputs to be free and openly available.
Pilot project: + All MACC products publicly available;+ Meteorological data fields may be free (except handling charges) for GMES DS purposes, unless aimed at commercial services (usual ECMWF data policy to be applied) + Regional model outputs freely available+ Some NRT data necessary for modelling operations are restricted to CS.
timeline
Fall 2008: GMES governance principles (EC Communication)
2008+ + interfaces between GAS and Downstream Services (linking with expected FP7 DS projects)
+ Interaction with user communities in pilot phase Bureau, EEA/EIONET, ISOWG + support group, GAC, MACC..
2009-2010 Address more in detail funding issues inc. cost estimate of the GAS provision, support to in situ observation infrastructure
2009-2011 IG monitors the GAS implementation through FP7 MACC project
2010-2011 Guidelines for the setting-up of the GAS provision scheme and of related GAS coordination structure
2014: new EC Financial Perspectives -> operational funding line
Added value for you
GMES will… - ensure a free and open access to the GMES services- enable downstream services in a variety of areas at national, regional and local level
(GMES economy) - Pilot services are increasingly putting available services on-line- MACC will converge the PROMOTE & GEMS consortia and services continuity of
services for existing users- MACC open to new users- clearly also address the policy needs of member states and their institutions (not only
needs at EU policy level); e.g. AQ policies - be an effective means of supporting national agencies, NGOs, citizens in assessing
and understanding problem related to our environment (AQ, CF,..)- help member states meet their reporting obligations under EU laws (e.g. air quality) and
their international obligations (e.g. Kyoto, Montreal) - enable to sustainably and operationally monitor long-term trends of climate a -> long,
uninterrupted time series of quality data, continuous satellite series monitoring environment and security in the future -> adaptation
Added value for you
16/17 September 2008: French Presidency Conference, Lille
User / service focus
Demonstrators: presenting operational GMES products to users
Website:www.forumgmes2008.eu
GMES Forum
Thank you!