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GMES Atmosphere Services (GAS)
Arno Kaschl
[email protected]
GMES Bureau
European Commission
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
Information
EARTH
OBSERVING
SYSTEMS
(space, airborne, insitu)
PUBLIC
POLICIES
Needs
(policy driven)
(Environment &
Security)
GMES Services
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
Definition of GAS
For service definition + user input, the following mechanism has been put in
place:
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User Workshop on 6/7 December 2006
100 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
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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;
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Service preparation:
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FP6 - GEMS about 10 M€
ESA GMES Service Element - PROMOTE about 5 M€
FP7 – MACC about 11 M€
Operational phase
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 will
 improve the description, understanding, forecasting of
atmosphere
 expand it: surface fluxes (emission/deposition),
scenarios depending upon man-made decisions.
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.
Scope: towards users
GAS should address the needs of
EU and MS :
policies in
- air quality
- climate change mitigation
& adaptation
- renewable energies
- ozone layer preservation
International
Commitments:
- Kyoto
- CLRTAP
- Montreal
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
-...
« GMES economy »
Security
Atmosphere
Emergency
Maritime
Users
HEALTH
adaptation
air quality
DOWNSTREAM
SERVICES
Land
Added Value Chain
CORE
SERVICES
In-situ
Space EO
OBSERVATION
INFRASTRUCT.
CS versus DS
CS criteria
• Geographical scale: global, regional (= European)
• Meet needs of DS & end users
• Avoid duplications of efforts and operations
Air quality
Examples
for
GAS DS
• 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…
Core Service content
Four principal themes
(1) air quality (AQ)
(2) climate forcing (CF)
(3) stratospheric O3 (+UV)
(4) solar radiation
Added value from
• combined space & in situ
• models (assimilation)
Service Outputs
data
• Observational
• NRT (AQ)
• GCOS ECV (CF)
• gridded fields
• easy access
products
• Forecasts
• Assessments :
•Trends derived from reanalysis
•'low volume' information
•Contributions to scenarios
•Sources and sinks
Global component: ozone & UV-radiation, greenhouse gases, aerosols
European component: air quality, CO2 sources
GAS architecture
OBSERVATION SUPPLY and CALIBRATION
Space Agencies / In Situ ground networks / Aircraft
programmes
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Downstream Services
Other GMES Core Services
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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 networks
o 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
Rely on on-going (GEMS & PROMOTE) & future (MACC) pilot projects
to prefigure CS implementation
IG might advise EC and project partners
Space observations: recommendations by IG
In situ observations: recommendations by IG; EEA as coordinator
to lead a consolidation process; EC funding to support contributions
to international networks
User involvement: needs to become a priority; creation of user
forums to interact with MACC and post-MACC
R&D: essential for a successful GAS
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
the GAS provision, support to in situ observation infrastructure
of
2009-2011
project
IG monitors the GAS implementation through FP7 MACC
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
GMES Forum
16/17 September 2008: French Presidency
Conference, Lille
User / service focus
Demonstrators: presenting operational GMES
products to users
Website:www.forumgmes2008.eu
Thank you!