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1 GEO WATER GEOSS Asian Pacific Symposium Bali, Indonesia March 11, 2010 Rick Lawford

2 GEO Water: A series of tasks to bring the outputs from water cycle observational, analysis and production to support better water management decisions. Assets: 1. The GEO framework provides a opportunity to advance the goals of a number of groups working in the area of water and the water cycle. 2. Water us becoming a widely recognized critical resource that may underlie a truly global crisis. 3. Within the water community there is a great need for IGWCO COP s ability to provide coordination and brokerage services among investigators and programs. Liabilities: It is a volunteer effort that relies on best efforts of countries, agencies, and individuals. As a result program gaps occur and communications to the public do not fully portray the scope of the effort.

3 The Primary Framework: GEOSS: A Global, Coordinated, Comprehensive and Sustained System of Observing Systems Relevant Facts: Involves ~80 nations and ~50 international organizations who have agreed to work together to build the GEOSS. Coordinated by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) which implements the GEOSS work plan through the best efforts of its community. Targets Tasks Sub Tasks The Water Target By 2015, produce comprehensive sets of data, information products and services to support decision making for efficient management of the world's water resources, based on coordinated, sustained observations of the water cycle on multiple scales.

4 Building the Water Element of GEOSS WA 08 01: Integrated Products for Water Resource Management and Research WA 06 02: Droughts, Floods and Water Resource Management WA 06 07: Capacity Building for Water Resource Management The GEO Path Data Integration Systems User Need Survey Data Alliances New components Of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems Water quality / BGC fluxes GEMS/Water Water use* FAO/AQUASTAT Soil moisture In-situ Soil Moisture Network (planned); SMOS Evapotranspiration FLUXNET Ground water* IGRAC Global Terrestrial Network Hydrology (GTN-H) "Network of Networks" Snow cover* Glaciers and ice caps* NSIDC WGMS / GTN-G Lake level/area* HYDROLARE / GTN-L Precipitation* GPCC GPCP NCDC / GSN Water vapour* WMO WWW River discharge* GRDC / GTN-R Isotopic Composition IAEA / GNIP National Services / Space Agencies A UN Path

5 Functional Structure of the Water Cycle Community of Practice Data Support Products IGWCO AWCI LA&C WCA AfWCI Water Net Water Cycle Applications Knowledge Water Cycle Capacity Building Activities Knowledge

6 WA 08 01: Integrated Products for Water Resource Management and Research: Improvements and expansion of in situ networks, combined with new and existing satellite missions and emerging assimilation and prediction capabilities, are opening the door to a new era in global water cycle management. a) Soil Moisture (GRP: Lead: Peter van Oevelen) b) Runoff and Surface Water Store (WMO: Wolfgang Grabs) c) Groundwater (Sophie Vermooten) d) Precipitation (GPCP: Lead George Huffman) e) Water Cycle Data Integration (CEOP: CoLead: Toshio Koike) f) Pilot Projects for Improved Water Discovery and Quality Assessments (IEEE: Tom Wiener) g) Global Water Quality Monitoring

7 Primary Water Cycle Sub Tasks under WA WA 08 01: Integrated ASTER Soil Products for Water Resource Management and Research Improvements and Moisture expansion of in situ networks, combined with new and existing satellite missions and emerging assimilation and prediction capabilities, are opening the door to a new era in global water cycle management. a) Soil Moisture b) Runoff c) Groundwater d) Precipitation e) Water Cycle Data Integration f) Pilot Projects for Improved Water Discovery and Quality Assessments g) Global Water Quality Monitoring Drought Storages Anomalies in Saskatchew River Basin Flood -12 Apr-02 Oct-02 Apr-03 Oct-03 Apr-04 Sep-04 Mar-05 Sep-05 Mar-06 Time (Months) Surface Storage GRACE Storage

8 Assessment of WA Integration In situ Satellite Integration Archive QC Product Exp. Routine Within Between Good Progress Soil M. Precip Runoff Work underway: Progress anticipated Ground water Water Quality Possible New Evapotranspiration? Water Vapour? Skin Temperature? Progress limited by People science

9 IGWCO and CEOS Virtual Constellations Constellation for Atmospheric Composition (ACC) Constellation for Land Surface Imaging (LSI) Constellation for Ocean Colour Radiometry (OCR) To collect and deliver data to improve monitoring, assessment, and predictive capabilities for changes in ozone, air quality, and climate. Constellation for Ocean Surface Topography (OST) To determine optimal capabilities to acquire, receive, process, archive, and distribute land surface image data to the global user community. Constellation for Ocean Surface Vector Wind (OSVW) To provide long time series of calibrated ocean colour radiance (OCR) at key wavelength bands from measurements obtained from multiple satellites. A working group has been established to explore the potential for a water cycle constellation under CEOS. This concept could be Introduced at an upcoming CEOS if it progresses quickly enough. Constellation for Precipitation (PC) The implementation of a sustained, systematic capability to observe the topography of the surface of the global oceans ranging from basin scale to mesoscale. Promote the widespread use of scatterometer derived surface vector winds (SVW) and altimeterderived significant wave heights (SWH) in operational marine analyses and forecasts worldwide, as a contribution to the protection of life and property at sea. The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3 5 November 2009 To guide, facilitate, and coordinate continued advancements of multi satellite global precipitation missions. 9

10 WA 06 02: Droughts, Floods and Water Resource Management Address decision making challenges related to the management of hydrometeorological extremes and the sustainable use of water. a) Forecasting and Early Warning Systems for Droughts and Floods (US: John Schaake) b) Impacts from Drought (Canada: Rick Lawford) c) ACQWA (Assessing Climatic change and impacts on the Quantity and quality of Water: Switzerland: Douglas Cripe) d) Drought Monitoring (US: Roger Pulwarty)

11 Earth System Models Oceans Ice Land Atmosphere Solid Earth Biosphere Decision Support Assessments Decision Support Systems Policy Decisions Societal Is more generation Benefits capacity needed? Earth 12 Observation Systems 8 4Remotely sensed In situ 0-4 Storages Anomalies in Saskatchew Rive (Girling) -8 Drought -12 Apr-02 Oct-02 Apr-03 Oct-03 Apr-04 Sep-04 Mar-05 Sep-05 Mar-06 (Snelgrove) Flood On going feedback to optimize value and reduce gaps Time (Month Surface Storage GRACE Storag 11 11

12 WA 06 07: Capacity Building for Water Resource Management Initiate capacity building programs in support of water management, to show the value of, and develop tools for, Earth observation data. a) Latin America b) Africa c) Asia This activity also builds upon testbeds and demonstration projects.

13 Priority Issues Tunisia (01/09) (Africa): Integrated Water Resources Management Adaptation to Climate Change Droughts Floods Peru (12/09) Priority Issues (L&C Americas): Floods Adaptation to Impacts of Climat Change (Receding Tropical Glaciers) Droughts Water Quality Issues Japan (02/09) Priority Issues (Asia): Floods and Landslides Drought and Water Resources Water Pollution and ecosystem degradation Climate Impacts on Water

14 "African Water Cycle Initiative contributing to GEOSS" As a result of the 1 st African Water Cycle Symposium in Tunis a Task Team was formed to: 1.Assess water related issues in Africa 2.Develop an inventory of observations, modeling and information systems 3.Assess the data policy for African nations 4.Draft an implementation plan 5. Survey capacity development needs and resources

15 The 1st Task Team Meeting in Preparation of the 2 nd GEOSS African Water Cycle Symposium Geneva, September 2009 Jan The 1 st GEOSS African Water Cycle Symposium in Tunis Sharing water-related issues and need in Africa Preparing a task team Sept Questionnaire Survey The 1 st Task Team Meeting in Geneva Summary Report Identifying Task Team Action Items Regular Conference Call for Task Team Management Purpose Scope Benefits Framework? 2010? 2010 The 2 nd GEOSS African Water Cycle Symposium in? The Earth Observation Summit V in? Plan of Implementation? 2011 The 3 rd GEOSS African Water Cycle Symposium in? Implementation

16 A GEO Water Cycle Capacity Building Workshop Latin America & Caribbean Argentina Belize Bolivia Brazil Chile Columbia Costa Rica Ecuador Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Panama Paraguay Peru Uruguay Lima Peru at CONIDA, Nov. 30 to Dec. 4, 2009 Workshop Outcomes: 1) Introduced participants to many tools that are available for analysis through GEO. NASA Land Data Assimilation System, SERVIR, and GEONETCast were profiled at the workshop. 2) CONIDA will host a dynamic web site for listing of data sets &services, projects summary with interactive capabilities. 3) Created a Center for Spatial Information & Hydrological Latin America and the Caribbean ( CIEHLYC ). Includes reps from Argentina, Mexico, Columbia, Haiti, Brazil, USA & Canada. Petition to GEO to be a formal Working Group. 4) A Water Cycle Federation of America will help to integrate existing projects and develop new projects and initiatives. Issues identified including floods, droughts, glacier retreat & climate impacts. Supporting Countries: Canada The Netherlands United States

17 Basic concepts and definition for UN Water Accounts Consumption Evapotranspiration From the environment (abstraction) The UN Water Statistics is quantifying important links among water, economics and governance. IGWCO plans to develop Use Supply one or two test cases where satellite Economic data or data activity/ products are used to provide input to UN national Households account spreadsheets to see how the balances would be affected. To the environment (returns) From another economic unit Consumption To another economic unit

18 The WCRP commitment to Climate Services may provide opportunities for Regional WC CoPs to be ways for developing and testing new Climate services for water management. Should we attempt to define our role within this framework?

19 Preliminary Classification of Data Centre Alliances Data Collection Services NASA/ GIOVANI ESA/ GENESI Data Integration System Dev UofT DIAS NCDC/ GOSIC GRDC NSIDC/ WDCG CAREERI/ WDCGG Information Services MPI/ WDCC Data Product Development & Archival Research Operations

20 USER NEEDS SURVEY FOR WATER CYCLE DATA GEO (WC CoP) and NASA are in the final stages of finalizing a report on the needs of water resource managers for water cycle information. This report summarizes the findings of earlier reports on a wide range of water cycle variables related to: (1) Surface Waters, Fluxes, and Processes: (2) Ground Water (Including Recharge/Discharge & Regolith Processes) (3) Forcing Elements (e.g., Surface Meteorology, Surface Radiation Budgets and Clouds (4) Water Quality and Water Use

21 Summary: The IGWOC activity has provided a framework for developing and advancing GEO Water. The progress has been satisfactory, although Uneven in some areas. AWCI continues to play an important role in GEO Water and IGWCO. 1) How would Asian Water Activities like to be portrayed in GEO Water (AWCI Yes, DIAS Yes, Others?) 2. How can IGWCO contribute in linking Asian Water activities to global water activities and to other regional activities?

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