Title: CEOS Response to GCOSIP and support to GEO Status of Actions
1CEOS Response to GCOS-IPand support to GEO-
Status of Actions
- Mitchell D. Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS
- Ivan Petiteville, ESA
2CEOS Response to GCOS-IP
- CEOS Response to GCOS Implementation Plan
Satellite Supplement was prepared and presented
to UNFCCC COP-12 in November 2006 in Nairobi. - CEOS Response to GCOS-IP GEO Task CL-06-02.
- The CEOS Response includes 59 actions covering
the Atmosphere (A), Ocean (O) and Terrestrial (T)
domains, and a number of Cross-cutting issues
(C). - CEOS and GCOS have jointly defined lists of 1st,
2nd and 3rd priority actions, based on an
evaluation of their ability to deliver
significant results in the short (1-2yr), medium
(4-6yr) and long term (10yr). - Most Cross-cutting actions are permanent,
long-standing efforts (e.g., adherence to GCOS
Monitoring Principles).
3CEOS Climate Actions Priority
- A first round of climate actions assessment, in
coordination with GCOS, led to the identification
of - 22 Priority 1 actions
- Deemed to be progressed immediately
- Capable of delivering significant outcomes within
a 1-2 year timescale. - 32 Priority 2 actions
- Continuous, on-going, or require additional
information from potential contributors in order
to be suitably defined - will not necessarily deliver significant results
in the 1-2 year timescale. - 5 Priority 3 actions
- Considered premature at this stage.
4CEOS 59 GCOSActions
- 1. ensuring continuity of climate-relevant
satellite measurements (13 actions) - 2. taking a systematic approach to generating
fundamental climate data records (FCDRs)
(11actions) - 3. preserving climate data records (4 actions)
- 4. ensuring access to climate data products (10
actions) - 5. coordinating international communities and
interaction with users (10 actions) and - 6. addressing future measurement needs (11
actions).
5Atmospheric Domain
priority 1 actions
6Atmospheric Domain
7Ocean Domain
8Ocean Domain
9Ocean Domain
10Terrestrial Domain
11Cross Cutting
12Cross Cutting
13Cross Cutting
14Reporting of Actions
- GCOS recognize CEOS response to GCOS IP is
comprehensive but not complete - e.g. no atmospheric CDRs with exception of
reprocessed geostationary winds - CEOS climate coordinator will also report to GCOS
on the progress of relevant CEOS GEO climate
actions complementing the original 59 actions.
15UNFCCC Report
- UNFCCC SBSTA invited CEOS to provide an updated
progress report at its 29th session in December
2008. - Detailed status of Priority 1 actions and plans
for starting new tasks are in the CEOS UNFCCC
report.
16Organization of the CEOS UNFCCC Report
- Purpose
- Background
- CEOS
- GCOS IP and ECVs
- Importance of the Satellite Component of GCOS for
Climate - Development of the CEOS Climate Action Plan
- Status of High Priority Actions for Each Domain
- Cross-Cutting Actions
- Summary of Key Accomplishments and Future Plans
- Appendix 1 Overview of CEOS
- Appendix 2 CEOS Actions (separated Priority 1,
2 and 3)
17Key Accomplishments - Atmospheric Domain (1/2)
- CEOS agencies are improving information on
clouds, precipitation, Earth Radiation Budget,
Solar Irradiance, ozone profiles, and aerosols. - Improved cloud data records obtained
- from reprocessing the long term records of the
operational vis/IR imagers and sounders - by creating new datasets from recent research
satellite missions that fly cloud radars and
lidars.
18Key Accomplishments - Atmospheric Domain (2/2)
- NASA and JAXA are planning a Precipitation
Constellation of satellites that will include
both radar and passive microwave components. - NOAA and NASA have developed plans for
re-manifesting important climate sensors CERES,
TSIS, OMPS-Limb, and APS - that were dropped from
its NPOESS program. - NASA and NPL (UK) planning of a satellite
mission to obtaining highly accurate benchmark
measurements of the Earths reflectance and
emission spectra to detect the slow changes in
climate.
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20Current Status De-manifested Sensors (A-5 to
A-9) (1/2)
- Total Solar Irradiance Sensor (TSIS)
- Presidents FY2009 budget request includes
support for instrument development and ongoing
analyses to identify a suitable satellite
platform for hosting the sensor - Clouds and Earth Radiant Energy System (CERES)
- A CERES instrument is approved for flight on the
NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) in 2010 - Presidents FY2009 budget request includes funds
to build another CERES instrument to fly on the
first NPOESS planned for 2013 launch
21Current Status De-manifested Sensors (A-5 to
A-9) (2/2)
- Ocean Altimetry (ALT)
- NOAA plans to provide operational continuity for
satellite altimetry data with a Jason-3 mission - Jason-3 is a NOAA-EUMETSAT partnership mission,
planned for launch in 2013 - Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) Limb
sensor - Approved for flight on NPP
- Resources not identified for NPOESS OMPS-Limb
- Aerosol Polarimeter Sensor (APS)
- NOAA is monitoring NASAs development of APS
scheduled to launch in March 2009 on the GLORY
mission and will evaluate it before making a
decision
22Key Accomplishments - Ocean Domain (1/2)
- CEOS agencies are generating improved climate
data records for sea ice, sea level, and sea
surface temperature. - NOAA has developed a new microwave retrieval
system for sea ice (http//www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/
mirs/ ) while ESA will use its SMOS observations
to monitor thin sea ice. - CEOS agencies are coordinating a reprocessing of
microwave observations to obtain more reliable
sea ice trends.
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24Key Accomplishments - Ocean Domain (2/2)
- NOAA and EUMETSAT are leading a CEOS study team
to establish the basis for a future Ocean Surface
Topography Constellation that could lead to
operational sea level measurements. - CNES and the ISRO will cooperate on a new
polar-orbiting altimeter aimed at filling a
potential data gap beyond 2008, and ESA plans to
fly an altimeter on its Sentinel-3 mission in
2013. - ESA and JAXA are both planning to fly advanced IR
radiometers for high quality SST observations.
25Ocean Color Radiance (OCR)Virtual Constellation
Image from ESAs GlobColour Project
26Products Derived from OCR
Trends in Chlorophyll (1997-2003) (from
Gregg et al. 2005)
- Data products currently derived from OCR are
phytoplankton chlorophyll a, primary production,
colored organic matter (COM), particulate carbon,
and suspended sediment. - OCR data products are the only measurements
related to biological and biogeochemical
processes in the ocean that can be routinely
obtained at ocean basin and global ocean scales.
27Key Accomplishments - Terrestrial Domain
- CEOS agencies are evaluating approaches to
filling the current Landsat-class data gap and
developing a plan for a future Land-Surface
Imaging Constellation. - CEOS agencies are also reprocessing the 30 year
AVHRR data record. By using better satellite
intercalibration methods, a more stable time
series of AVHRR radiance measurements will be
obtained leading to improved time series of land
ECVs.
28Cross Cutting Progress
- X-cutting actions focus on
- improving international coordination mechanisms
for space-based climate observations, - developing and maintaining on-going working
relationships with GEO GCOS, - assuring adherence to GCOS Climate Monitoring
Principles, - improving the accuracy and inter-comparability of
satellite observations - X-cutting actions have already led to
- the initiation of Virtual Constellations in
support of GEOSS, - improved coordination within CEOS and of CEOS
agencies with GEO and GCOS, - a satellite climate data access system for users
throughout the world.
29Other 2008 CEOS Climate Actions
- In addition to the 59 CEOS GCOS actions (GEO
Task CL06-02), CEOS has defined beginning 2008,
34 CEOS GEO actions directly related to the
other GEO Climate tasks. - Actions details are provided in the CEOS
Implementation Plan (updated version ready by
CEOS Plenary Nov. 2008) - 22 out of 34 CEOS GEO actions are high priority
actions i.e. planned to be closed before Oct. 1,
2008. - 14 out of 22 high priority actions (63 ) have
been completed successfully. - 2 lower priority already closed
30CEOS Identification of Current /Near Team
Climate Activities
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32New Datasets from CEOS GEO actions (1/2)
33New Datasets from CEOS GEO actions (2/2)
34Datasets fromMedspiration http//www.medspirati
on.org/
35Ocean Colour pre-cursor (GLOBCOLOUR project)
Global Ocean Colour for Carbon Cycle Research
ESA GlobColour Project Global merged
MERIS-MODIS-SeaWiFS ocean colour product (Chl_a)
April 2003. Credit ACRI, LOV, Univ. Plymouth,
ICESS, NIVA, Brockmann Consult, DLR, ESA, NASA,
GeoEye
www.globcolour.info
36Conclusions
- CEOS Actions supports GCOS ECV requirements
- Start at least 10 more CEOS GCOS actions to be
started in 2009 - CEOS GEO Actions complements the 59 CEOS-GCOS
actions. Will continue in 2009. - Atmospheric Domain strong GSICS/RSSC-CM role
for developing climate data records
37Backup
38Implementation
Overall objective Continuous and sustained
provision of high-quality Essential Climate
Variables satellite products on a global scale
(includes reprocessing)
- The R/SSC-CM Network will be
- Based on activities of existing initiatives (GOS,
GCOS and GSICS) - Build upon existing operational infrastructures
- Serve users and other organisations (e.g. WMO
Regional Climate Centres RCC, National Weather
Services)
39R/SSC-CM is establishing a sustained effort.
Start small think big Most of required FCDRs are
being address by GSICS
P2 Action A-11 CEOS agencies will commit in
2007 to reprocessing the geostationary satellite
data for use in reanalyses projects before the
end of the decade.