The WMOGEO Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System ESIP FEDERATION Environmental

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The WMO/(GEO) Sand and Dust Storm Warning
Advisory and Assessment SystemESIP
FEDERATIONEnvironmental Decision Making 8 - 9
July 2009 Santa Barbara, CA
William A. Sprigg (Department of Atmospheric
Sciences, University of Arizona) Slobodan
Nickovic Leonard Barrie (World Meteorological
Organization)
wsprigg_at_u.arizona.edu
LBarrie_at_wmo.int SNickovic_at_wmo.int
http//www.atmo.arizona.edu/faculty/research/dust/
dust.html
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The WMO GEO Sand Dust Storm Warning Advisory
Assessment SystemNEW TOOLS Assisting World
Wide Public Health, Transportation Safety, Food
Security, Environmental Protection

• Who Cares?
• Why Bother?
• What is the Objective?
• What is the Plan?

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Who Cares?

• 2 billion people live in the arid 34 percent of
  Earths land surface. Local exposure to the
  regions airborne dust increases risk of
  cardiovascular and respiratory disease.

Phoenix dust storm 7 June 2006 Photo by Robb
Schumacher Arizona Republic
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Who Cares?

• People a continent or ocean away are exposed to
  these dusts, along with hitchhiking molds,
  spores, bacteria .
• Air and land transportation safety, human and
  veterinary health, food and water security .
  threatened
• --- and linked to the global economy.

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Who Cares?

• Weather and climate are affected by the 1500
  billion tons of dust suspended in our atmosphere
  at any given time

Satellite-derived Aerosol Optical Depth Several
Days in April 2001 (a NASA composite)
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• MORE THAN 40 NATIONS URGE WMO ACTION TO
• better understand dust storms, dust entrainment
  dispersion
• operate a world-wide system to detect, monitor
  and predict sand dust storms

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Abstract

• An Implementation Plan for an International Sand
  and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment
  System is under review at WMO. The Plan calls for
  research, observations, and advisories to support
  national weather services and others worldwide. A
  federated system of regional centres form the
  core of the SDS-WAS, providing nodes for
  state-of-the-science information on sand and dust
  storms around the globe.
  http//www.wmo.int/sdswas

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Objective Deliver products useful in reducing
adverse effects of sand and dust
storms _____________________________

• World-Wide Sand Dust Storm Detection
• Model-Based Simulations Forecasts
• Verification Models, Measurements Monitoring
• Source Characteristics Mapping Monitoring
• Information Access Dissemination
• Training Technology Transfer

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Nodes Centre System Architecture

• WMO SDS-WAS

Regional Node 1
Regional Center 1
Partner 1
Partner 2
Partner 3
Partner n
Regional Node 4
Regional Node 2
Regional Node 3
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Beijing Asia/Central PacificBarcelona N.
Africa, Middle East, Europe
NODE / CENTRE

• Web-based portals into regional research
  forecast services
• Value-added Observations Forecasts
• Neutral ground for operations, research, capacity
  building building partnerships
• Cooperative operational services Warnings
  related to SDS-WAS are the responsibility of
  National Meteorological and Hydrological Services
  (NMHSs). SDS-WAS input for decision making

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Partner (Federated) System Example N.Africa,
Middle East Europe Regional Centre/Node --------
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Regional Center BSC-CNS (Spain) Partners
Include Meteo-France, UK Met Office, ECMWF,
LISA, LSCE, IFT, EUMETSAT, CNR, AERONET/PHOTONS
..
Regional Node
. Tunisian Met Service, University of Athens,
University of Tel Aviv, Egyptian Meteorological
Agency, METU
Regional Centre
Partner n
Partner 1
.
Partner 2
Partner 5
Partner 3
Partner 4
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FORECASTS AND REANALYSIS PM2.5, PM10, AOD,
deposition, visibility, vertical distribution
OBSERVATIONS AND VERIFICATION Near real-time
quantitative and qualitative common verification
system for all participating forecast models
SATELLITES
REGIONAL
SeaWifs and Modis
MSG
BSC/DREAM
CHIMERE-dust
TAU
SKIRON
OMI
GROUND-BASED
GLOBAL
MOCAGE-dust
GEMS-ECMWF
AERONET AOD Size distribution
SYNOP - METAR Visibility
PM10 Network In Southern Europe and EMEP
NAAPS
LMDZ-INCA
Also off-line verification through AEROCOM
platform including POLDER, MISR, AVHHR, SEAWIFS,
TOMS, AERONET, EARLINET, surface concentrations
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Implementation Status

• A SYSTEM for a SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS?
• Executive Committee Endorsed (With Caution)
  Prospectus in April 2009
• Centres must fit
• Global Data and Forecast System
• Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre
  Structure
• Commission for Atmospheric Sciences Approval in
  November 2009?
• Commission for Basic Systems Final Approval in
  2010?

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Thank You!
.. and to NASA Earth Science Applications and
my observations to models to health services
collaborators at UNM EDAC http//phairs.unm.edu/

• wsprigg_at_u.arizona.edu

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A Reminder
FIRST STEPS TO DESIGN, TEST AND IMPLEMENT A
SYSTEM FOR SEAMLESS COUPLING OF DATA AND
INFORMATION BETWEEN THE WMO/GEO SDS-WAS AND THE
GEOSS GEOPortal and GEONETCast   ESIP FEDERATION
WORKSHOP Thursday July 9, 2009 330-530 Sycamore
Room W. A. Sprigg, M. Kafatos, K. Benedict, S.
Morain   Motive Turn space-based observations
into information into societal
benefit Opportunity GEOSS and SDS-WAS Means
ESIP, GEO, Pan-Am Centre

• wsprigg_at_u.arizona.edu