ESA EO Programmes and Climate Data. mark dohery, esa MARCDATIII ESA ESRIN May 2011

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1 ESA EO Programmes and Climate Data mark dohery, esa MARCDATIII ESA ESRIN May 2011

2 Overview Welcome ESA ESA s Earth Observation Programmes ESA Climate Change Initiative Future Prospects ESA UNCLASSIFIED For Official Use

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6 ESA EO Systems past present future since METEOSAT M-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ERS-1, -2 METEOSAT Second Generation MSG-1, -2, -3 Earth Explorers ENVISAT GMES (with EC) METOP-1, -2, -3 GOCE SMOS Meteo MTG in cooperation with EUMETSAT (Gravity and Ocean Circulation Explorer) (Gravity and Ocean Circulation Explorer) (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) (Polar Ice Monitoring) CryoSat-2 ADM/Aeolus SWARM EarthCare (Atmospheric Dynamics Mission) EE 7 Science to better understand the Earth System (Magnetic Mission) (Clouds, Aerosols & Radiation Mission) Applications Services to initiate long term Sentinel 1 Sentinel 2 Sentinel 3 Sentinel 4/5 monitoring systems Sentinel 5PC and services

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9 Continuity of observations ERS ERS SAR Tandem 2000 Envisat operations were due to end in 2010, but ESA Member States agreed to fund a 3-year extension 2002 ERS-2 Envisat 1 st Tandem 2 nd Tandem 3 rd Tandem Efficient consumption of on-board hydrazine allowed operating nominally Envisat until 2010 (nominal 5-years lifetime ended in Feb. 2007), but most of hydrazine is now consumed. New orbital parameters ( End-October 2010 ): Altitude change: km Repeat cycle: 30 days / 431 orbits Orbit control: altitude control with inclination drift Mean Local Solar Time variation: +/- 10 min. The Envisat 3-year extension required modification of the orbital parameters in October 2010 so as to continue satellite operations with minimum hydrazine

10 IMPROVED DATA ACCESS FREE DATASET: For data collections available on-line - open and free of charge - user registration done electronically - for all uses (i.e. science and operational applications) RESTRAINED DATASET: For all datasets not (yet) available on-line - project proposals for data free of charge data quota limit related to processing or acquisition constraints - for SAR:, possibility higher level of priority EOEP Science Review Panel Meeting ESTEC, Noordwijk, NL March 2011 Pag. 5.10

11 global products for global change research GlobCover 254 GlobCarbon 84 GlobWetland 58 GlobColour 51 Medspiration 44 GlobAerosol 34 GlobGlacier 28 DesertWatch* 25 GlobSnow* 17 GlobVolcano 17 GlobModel 11 EOEP Science Review Panel Meeting ESTEC, Noordwijk, NL March 2011 Pag. 6.11

12 supporting International Environmental Conventions EOEP Science Review Panel Meeting ESTEC, Noordwijk, NL March 2011 Pag. 6.12

13 Fostering Scientific Cooperation - Building long-term cooperation Ensuring ESA data contribution to major international scientific efforts; Promote ESA missions within new and wider Earth science communities; Ensuring coordination of ESA activities with international scientific priorities; - Community consultations - Dedicated ESA Projects EOEP Science Review Panel Meeting ESTEC, Noordwijk, NL March 2011 Pag. 6.13

14 Climate Change Initiative Realize the full potential of the long-term global EO archives that ESA, together with its Member states, has established over the last thirty years..... as a significant and timely contribution to the ECV databases required by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 6 Years / 75 Meuro

15 Two climate action paths GCOS requirements <=> CEOS response GCOS-82 in 2003 GCOS-92 in 2004 GCOS-107 in 2006 CEOS response 2006 GEOSS 10-year plan in 2005 CEOS IP for GEOSS in 2007

16 CCI: CCI: International International coordination Coordination Main External Partners: UNFCCC which coordinates the interests and decisions of its Parties on Climate Policy, GCOS which represents the scientific and technical requirements of the Global Climate Observing System on behalf of UNFCCC, CEOS which serves as a focal point for Earth Observation related activities of Space Agencies (e.g NOAA, NASA, JAXA, EUMETSAT) Individual Partner Space Agencies with whom ESA cooperates bilaterally (e.g. EUMETSAT) International Climate Research Programmes, which represent the collective interests and priorities of the worldwide climate research, (e.g. WCRP) EC and National Research Programmes which establish research priorities and provide resources for climate research community within Europe (e.g. DG Research, DG-JRC) GMES Partners: DG Enterprise and Industry, user DGs ENV, EEA

17 CCI starts with 11 ECVs Air Temperature; Precipitation ; Air pressure; Surface Water vapour; Surface radiation budget; ( 0, 0, 6 ) Wind Speed & direction; Cloud properties, Atmosphere Upper air ( 1, 1, 3 ) Wind speed & direction Earth radiation budget; Upper-air temperature; Water vapour; Composition ( 3, 0, 0 ) Carbon dioxide Methane & other GHGs; Ozone; Aerosol properties Sea-surface Temp; Sea-level; Sea-ice; Ocean colour; Surface Sea state; Sea-surface salinity ( 4, 2, 1 ) Ocean Carbon dioxide partial pressure Sub-surface ( 0, 0, 7 ) Temperature; Salinity; Current; Nutrients; Carbon; Ocean tracers; Phytoplankton Glaciers & ice caps; Land Cover; Fire disturbance Fraction of absorbed photo-synthetically active radiation; LAI, Albedo Terrestrial Biomass, Lake levels, Snow cover, Soil moisture ( 3, 7, 4 ) Water use, Ground water, River discharge Permafrost and seasonally-frozen ground CCI First Steps (11 ECVs) : Later in CCI (10 ECVs) : Not in CCI (24 ECVs)

18 CCI Projects ECV cloud_cc ozone_cci aerosol_cci chg_cci sst_cci landcover_cci sealevel_cci oceancolour_cci glaciers_cci fire _cci CMUG Science Leader DWD BIRA DLR/FMI U Bremen U Edinburgh UCL CLS PML U. Zurich U.Alcala UKMO Hadley

19 multiple sensors.consistency.. ESA missions data => FCDRs => ECVs Data from each sensor contributes to FCDR of several ECVs FCDR of each ECV requires data from several sensors Sea Level SST Ocean Colour Sea state Ocean salinity Sea ice concentration Lakes Glaciers & ice caps Land cover fapar LAI Biomass Burned area & active fire Soil moisture (research) Snow area Albedo Cloud properties O3 total and profiles Aerosol OD & other props GHGs distribution Upper air winds

20 CCI project teams International Science ref body Science Leader Climate Modelling Users Group Project Manager EO Science Team Specialised climate research team System Engineer(s) research Institutes x y z

21 CCI projects schedule x 11 `2010 `2011 `2012 `2013 open requirements open algo dev, inter-comp, selection open system & product proto-typing product validation & User assessment Operational system specification open open

22 CCI global data products some ECVs are... - state variables of models, - forcing, or boundary conditions, - poorly or not represented in Models - inter-linked:e.g. cloud, aerosol, - of probabilistic nature e.g. clouds

23 what we want to achieve specialized EO data groups ECV 1 specialized climate research groups ECV 2 ECV 3 consistent global satellite data products for climate research international EO community (CEOS) international climate research community ( GCOS WCRP )

24 confronting observations and models Mr. EO Mr. Modeller Miss. Clim Science knowledge exchange to better quantify climate change.

25 achieving climate data quality data and models confrontation ECV Data Climate Research Package climate assessment uncertainty characterization product validation round-robin data package algorithm selection algorithms evaluation product specification user requirements EO Archives (L1B)

26 key issues uncertainty characterization openness, traceability, repeatability data standards scientific cooperation

27 new in 2011 sea_ice_cci ice_sheets_cci soil_moisture_cci

28 enabling climate services Data Access Earth Explorers ENVISAT/ERS National Missions GMES Sentinels Meteo Missions (EUMETSAT)

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31 GMES sentinels for services Sentinel 1 SAR imaging All weather, day/night applications, interferometry 2012 (A), 2014 (B) TBD Sentinel 2 Multispectral imaging Land applications: urban, forest, agriculture,.. Continuity of Landsat, SPOT 2013 (A), 2014 (B) TBD Sentinel 3 Ocean and global land monitoring Wide-swath ocean colour, vegetation, sea/land surface temperature, altimetry 2013 (A), 2014 (B) TBD Sentinel 4 Geostationary atmospheric Atmospheric composition monitoring, transboundary pollution 2018 Sentinel 5 and Precursor Low-orbit atmospheric Atmospheric composition monitoring 2014 (5P), 2019

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