CEOS Response to GCOSIP and support to GEO Status of Actions

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CEOS Response to GCOS-IPand support to GEO-
Status of Actions

• Mitchell D. Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS
• Ivan Petiteville, ESA

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CEOS 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).

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CEOS 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.

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CEOS 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).

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Atmospheric Domain
priority 1 actions
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Atmospheric Domain
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Ocean Domain
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Ocean Domain
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Ocean Domain
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Terrestrial Domain
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Cross Cutting
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Cross Cutting
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Cross Cutting
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Reporting 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.

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UNFCCC 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.

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Organization 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)

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Key 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.

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Key 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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Current 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

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Current 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

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Key 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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Key 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.

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Ocean Color Radiance (OCR)Virtual Constellation
Image from ESAs GlobColour Project
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Products 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.

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Key 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.

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Cross 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.

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Other 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

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CEOS Identification of Current /Near Team
Climate Activities
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New Datasets from CEOS GEO actions (1/2)
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New Datasets from CEOS GEO actions (2/2)
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Datasets fromMedspiration http//www.medspirati
on.org/
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Ocean 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
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Conclusions

• 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

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Backup
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Implementation
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)

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R/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.