Title: Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) Cold Region - Needs and Support Yubao Qiu GEO Secretariat COLD-REGION@list.geosec.org
1Global Earth Observation System of Systems
(GEOSS) Cold Region - Needs and Support
Yubao Qiu GEO SecretariatCOLD-REGION_at_list.geos
ec.org
Boarding Meeting, 1-2 October 2012 Potsdam,
Germany
2GEO, the Group on Earth Observations An
Intergovernmental Organization with 89 Member
Countries, the European Commission and 64
Participating Organizations
There is a Need to coordinate observations and
to Share all Earth Observation Data in Standard
Interoperable Formats.
U.S. Department of State,Washington DC July 31,
2003
3GEOSS A Global, Coordinated, Comprehensive
and Sustained System of Observing Systems
Built from the expansion and interlinking of
existing observation and information systems and
the investments of Members and Participating
Organizations in new systems.
4Global Issue The Cryospheric Components
It includes snow, sea ice, lake and river ice,
glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, permafrost and
seasonally frozen ground, and solid precipitation
5Heritage IGOS-P, IPY, GEO Tasks
Legacy of the International Polar Year 2007-08,
AR-09-03b. (Subtask of AR-09-03 Advocating for
Sustained Observing Systems) Another subtask,
Accelerating the Implementation of the Global
Climate Observing System (CL-09-02), includes
the Global Cryosphere Watch. A few other tasks
address snow and ice issues at least peripherally
(e.g., CL-06-01, EC-09-01).
By Jeff Key, 2010
A contribution to GEOSS GCW - The cryosphere
community of practice concept is part of the GCW
strategy.
WP2012-2015 GEO Cold Region - Information
Services
6Observation Platform Coordination
Space Observations
In-situ Measurements
Services
Needs
Energy
Climate
Water
Weather
Ecosystem
Biodiversity
7GEO Cold Region
Contribution Canada, China, Denmark, Germany,
India, Italy, Japan, Norway, Spain, United
States, IEEE, SAON, WMO,
- In Work plan 2012-2015 Priority Actions
- Promote the implementation of the SAON project
(Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks see also
IN-01-C3-Promotion and Coordination across
Surface-based and Space-based Observing Systems) - GLIMS, GlobGlacier, and the National Snow and Ice
Data Center. see also IN-01 - In-situ and remotely-sensed data measuring frozen
ground, glaciers, ice sheets, sea ice, and snow.
(incl. INTERACT) - Link Polar Data Catalogue, National Snow and Ice
Data Centre, and SAON through GEOSS
interoperability standards (as part of GCW)
- New Actions
- Provide the CryoClim Cryospheric climate
monitoring service - Integration of Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth
Observing System (SIOS) in GEOSS - Providing the essential climate variable sea ice
for the Arctic and the Antarctic - Snow Cover mapping and experiment for the Tibetan
Plateau - Glacier dynamics mapping in Tibetan Plateau using
satellite observations
8GEO Broker
Global Initiatives Arctic SAON INTERACT Antarcti
c The third pole
PSTG
GCW
CEOS IGOS-P Cryo.
GEO Web Portal
Regional GEOSS
9Thank you!
GEO Cold Region COLD-REGION_at_list.geosec.org