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Kopernikus (ex GMES)
Overview and Climate Change
Element
Need for information
Kopernikus Services
Three Service areas based on Earth systems:
• Land Monitoring: initially European land cover & urban
areas
• Marine Monitoring: marine state & ecosystems
characteristics over global ocean & European regional
seas
• Atmospheric Monitoring: atmospheric composition for
air quality (European) and climate forcing (global),
ozone monitoring (global) and solar energy
Further, two horizontal components:
• Emergency Response: initially rapid mapping
• Security
Overall Architecture
OBSERVATION
INFRASTRUCTURE
Users
XXX..
Emergency
Atmosphere
Farming
ICZM
Air quality
DOWNSTREAM
SERVICES
In Situ
Infrastructure
Marine
Land
Added Value Chain
CORE
SERVICES
Space Infrastructure
Core Services
Marine
Land
Emergency
Atmosphere
Core services = Public Good
European Service Infrastructure (free of charge)
Downstream services providers:
National agencies, SMEs, …
CS provision based on existing capacities
• Subsidiarity: non-duplication of MS capacities
• User driven: limited to what is needed
• Complementary: added value to national developments
Downstream services
Downstream service providers:
National agencies, SMEs, ..
Pull
Private users
Real estate
Farmers
Fishermen
…
&
Public users
Civil protection
Ministry of Environment
Ministry of Agriculture
Ministry of Defence
…
Pay
European institutions
Commission
Council
Eur. agencies ex. EMSA
Satellite center
…
Kopernikus Roadmap
2013
1998-2008
2008 - 2012
Existing space
missions
ESA coordination
Dedicated
Missions
EEA Coordination
Sustainable
in-situ data
procurement
Research funding
and management
FP5/6, GSE
Limited preoperational
funding
Dedicated
funding and
management
Provider-driven
unsustainable
services
FP7 preoperational
Sustainable
user-driven
services
Non-space data
uncoordinated
Lille demonstrators
Climate Change Element
• to support political decisions and measures
on
- mitigation
- adaptation
 We need best possible estimates of the
extent of the changes to be expected and
their impact.
GCOS ECVs - Kopernikus
• Land, Marine and Atmosphere all contribute to
monitoring of Essential Climate Variables (ECVs)
identified by GCOS
• Atmospheric Composition ECVs (CO2, CH4, N2O,
(H)(C)FCs,...)
Atmosphere Core Service  Promote, GEMS 
MACC
• Marine ECVs (SST, Sea level, salinity, currents,
waves, winds, ocean colour...)
Marine Core Service  Mersea  myOcean
• Terrestrial ECVs (land cover, water, ice, leaf area
index, biomass, fire, ...)
Land Monitoring Core Service  Geoland-1 
Geoland-2 (Corine 2006)
Kopernikus will ensure
• Combining existing resources in Europe
• Sustainable provision of observations -> both in
situ and space
• Long-time series
• Data quality, comparability and storage
best input data for Earth system modellers
to reduce the uncertainties in projections for
climate and policy scenarios
Horizontal Climate Change services
to be added
Inter-linkage between the individual Earth compartments must
be achieved (horizontal element)
• Reanalysis (Assimilating past data in models to improve
model performance) sustained as continuous operation
 FP7 space call Sep 2008
• Add support to socio-economic modellers
 Extract relevant impact information from climate projections
 Provide impact statistics from past and current observation analysis
• Filling observational gaps (oceans, remote areas, Africa..)
 UNFCC’s GCOS
International context
• UNFCC, GCOS: requirements for monitoring
(atmosphere and boundary conditions land, marine)
• GEO/GEOSS: to cooperate with partners to ensure
global coverage, procurement and dissemination
• IPCC: Kopernikus to feed the “fact-finding process”,
In order to drive the political process
(Post-Kyoto: Poznan/Copenhagen and beyond)