Prsentation PowerPoint

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ICARE Service Center Clouds-Aerosols-Radiation
Etc Interactions
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ICARE Rationale
In the field of Aerosols, Clouds, Water vapor,
Radiation...

• Answer the needs of the various users (modeling,
  climatology, ...)
• "Mutualize"
• scientific expertise
• technical facilities beyond space agencies
  processing archiving centers
• Develop geophysical products using data from
  space missions
• Process distribute these products
• Assist users on the quality and use of these
  products (validation, documentation, software
  tools)

Dust evolution trans-Pacific transport 4/8-
4/14/01 After Ack Mian Chin, GSFC P.Ginoux, NOAA
GFDL
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ICARE Organization
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Services provided by ICARE
Data Management Processing Center
Expertise Centers IPSL, LOA, ...
DEVELOPMENT UNIT
EXPLOITATION UNIT

• Collection of data (space agencies, others)
• Archive
• Operational processing
• Distribution
• Exploitation Services

• Development, validation and maintenance of
  processing codes and software tools
• Codes validation
• User Services

• Methodology and Algorithms design
• Processing Requirements
• Product Quality assessment
• Answer requests for Scientific Expertise

Operational codes Delivery
USERS
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ICARE Interfaces
CMSMEGHATROPIQUE (India)
EUMETSATMETEOSATMSG(Germany)
DAAC AQUA/MODIS (USA)
CMS-N1PARASOL (Toulouse)
ECMWF (GB)
DAAC CLOUDSAT (USA)
ProductsN1, N2, N3
ProductsN1
CCPPOLDER (Toulouse)
DAAC CALIPSOCERES (USA )
T,P, humidity, wind
ICARE POLE
Data Management Processing Center (Lille)
LSCE (Paris) EXPERTISE CENTER
DEVELOPMENT UNIT
EXPLOITATION UNIT
Products Delivery
- Development, validation and maintenance of
operational codes and ancillary software tools
- Data collection
LOA (Lille) EXPERTISE CENTER
Processing tools requirements
USERS
Operational codes delivery
- Archiving
- Production
Product Quality
SA (Paris) EXPERTISE CENTER
- Codes Validation
Access to user services
- Distribution
Products for validation
- User services
- Services dexploitation
LMD (Paris) EXPERTISE CENTER
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ICARE partnership

• Nord-Pas-de-Calais Region financial
  contribution and support for european funds
• Lille s University of Science and Technology
  scientific, technical logistics contribution
• CNES technical financial contribution
• CNRS scientific technical contribution
• protocol established on October 24 th, 2003
• ressources allocated for 2003-2007
• increasing team from 4p to 10p
• 1p for Calipso IIR starting end 2003

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Contacts

• F-M.Bréon (LSCE) fmbreon_at_cea.fr
• Philippe François, D.Tanré (LOA)
• Philippe.Francois_at_univ-lille1.fr
• tanre_at_loa.univ-lille1.fr
• A.Lifermann, A.Gaboriaud (CNES)
• anne.lifermann_at_cnes.fr
• alain.gaboriaud_at_cnes.fr