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European Space Agency
Update
IGBP IPO Meeting
16 Jan 2013
European Space Agency
Update
ESA Activities
• Climate Change Initiative Programme
• Earth Observation in IPCC AR5
• Living Planet Symposium
Joint ESA-IGBP projects
Funding Opportunties
• Budget to support the participation of IGBP scientists in ESA meetings/events.
• Budget to exploit and promote ESA data.
Merton Initiative?
Climate Change Initiative
Responded to the need from the scientific community for satellite data that are:
• Merged (i.e. more than just ESA data)
• Stable (no jumps from change in sensors)
• Error characterised (information on uncertainty is included)
• Accessible (free to obtain, will have a central CCI interface, documentation
online)
• Cover as long time period as possible
• Consistent data products between the 13 Essential Climate Variable projects
• Harmonised data formats (all using NetCDF CF compliant)
• Climate Modelling User Group advise the projects on the needs of the
modelling community.
• Prototype data sets available Spring 2013 – we need help validating them!
www.esa-cci.org
Compiling a CCI data product
Scatterometer
ERS-1
ERS-2
Ascat-A
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Ascat-B
The Soil Moisture
Radiometer
Fundamental
Climate
Data Record
Nimbus 7 SMMR
(FCDR)
DMSP SSM/I
TRMM TMI
AQUA AMSR-E
Coriolis Windsat
etc…
…
SMOS
SMAP
Soil Moisture ECV
Production System
Incorporating new
satellite data,
reprocessing &
algorithm
evaluation
ECV Data
Product
CCI Phase 1 products temporal extent
Aerosol
Cloud
GHGs
Ozone
Ocean Colour
Land Cover
Fire
Sea-Level
SST
Glaciers
Ice-Sheets
Sea-Ice
Soil-Moisture
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Coordination with
international actions on climate research
TBD
GHRSST
IOCCG
GEWEX
SST
cloud
AEROCOM
sea
ice
ocean
colour
aerosol
sea-level
ozone
IO3C
OSTWG
Climate
Modeling
cmug
GHGs
Community
CMIP5
land
cover
MACC/GCP
glaciers
soil
moisture
fire
GOFC/GOLD
ice
sheets
GTN-G
GOFC/GOLD Fire / GCP
GEWEX
IMBIE
CCI links with IGBP
Using the CCI products within IGBP/Future Earth:
- Global assessments, e.g. Global Carbon Atlas, Atmosphere/Biosphere index?
- Model/data comparisons and benchmarking. List of models within IGBP and
proposed working group will be useful
- Trend analysis and detection & attribution studies
- Will be emailing projects individually to see where feedback on the CCI can be
gained. (I will write articles for your newsletters!)
ESA Activities
• IPCC AR5 – where does Earth Observation data contribute and where could it be
improved?
Upcoming projects:
• GlobCurrent – aims to promote a wider use of ocean surface current measurements
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derived from all existing remote sensing sources & demonstrate the feasibility of a unified
service for ocean surface currents.
Sentinel2Agriculture - validated algorithms and best practices to produce EO products for
agriculture monitoring, preparing for the exploitation of Sentinel2 observations.
GlobTemperature – improving the uptake of global-scale satellite land surface temperature
information by the broad research and operational user communities. Potential ideas include
user driven LST product development and processing, validation, intercomparison and
quality assessment, in-situ - model - satellite data merging, construction of an LST
information portal, etc
GlobBiomass - aims to provide a better characterisation of the distribution, and changes of
regional and global biomass, as well as improved quantification metrics, to help reduce
uncertainties carbon stock calculations and fluxes in the terrestrial biosphere.
Cryosat – innovative scientific applications of Cryosat data in the cryosphere domain
beyond its primary mission
ESA Activities
• IGBP community encouraged to attend (funding available)
• Call for abstracts, deadline 15 February 2013.
• Presenting joint projects and current ESA initiatives to engage with the global
change research community.
• Future Earth exhibition stand?
Joint ESA – IGBP projects
Funded through ESA programmes:
1. Science to Support Element (fundamental science)
2. Data User Element (demonstrator projects for a service, e.g. permafrost
monitoring)
Current projects:
• SOLAS – Oceanflux. €1m split over 3 projects on greenhouse gases, upwelling and
sea spray & aerosols.
• iLEAPS – ALANIS. €1m split over 3 projects, finished in 2012, preparing ALANIS-2.
• GCP – Carbonflux TBD.
• Diversity II – €1m for one project on monitoring biodiversity
• Open to all ideas but must use ESA data and be run by ESA member states.
Common projects are reprocessing EO data to make it compatible with models.
e.g. IGAC’s biomass burning project, LOICZ delta flooding maps.
• Want to put together ‘Initial Science Requirements’ from each project.
Funding Opportunities
Participation of key IGBP scientific experts in meetings organised or supported by
ESA. €30,000 annually
• Living Planet Symposium coming up. 9-13 September, 2013, Edinburgh.
SSC members with an expertise in remote sensing?
• Will email lists of upcoming meetings to projects, e.g. Earth Explorer user
consultations
Promote ESA EO science results and global data products to the non-EO expert
global change research community. €30,000 annually
• Data visualisations
• Events, e.g. hackathon – IGBP defined scope & audience, ESA data products, based
at Harwell.
• Use of ESA data in global assessments/IGBP climate change index – where small
data reprocessing may be needed?
Merton Initiative?
Good overview of where we’d like to be.
• Follow up activity to determine where we should focus our efforts, what are the next
achievable steps towards these overarching aims?
• Do we need a workshop/project between EO and social scientists like we’ve organised
between modellers and the observation community?
• Is there a problem with data compatibility or access?
• Follow up this idea: ‘Identification of important Earth System regions where lack of
observations contributes to critical uncertainty should be formalized’.
• Reduce the overview down to a list of aims that are achievable within the next 3-5
years?
• Focus the Questions and Key Requirements down to be audience specific - need to
know who you’re developing this system for.
• Appendix B – can we use this to develop small, collaborative projects between two or
more of these that would contribute to one of the goals expressed in the document?
• Some are being answered through the CCI – integration of space & ground based
data; data harmonisation; detection & attribution.
ESA credit!
Thank You!