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GMES towards integrated environmental monitoring
of the atmosphere

• Daan Swart
• RIVM Laboratory for Environmental Monitoring

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GMESGlobal Monitoring for Environment and
Security

• Joint program of EU and ESA
• Other players EEA, ECMWF, EUMETSAT, WMO, .
• Purpose Set up/integrate monitoring and
  information infrastructure for environment and
  security
• In situ and space components
• Existing infrastructure is integrated, not
  duplicated

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GMESGlobal Monitoring for Environment and
Security

• Program runs for several years already
• Financed by
• EU 6th and 7th framework program
• ESA GMES Service Element
• No structural funding (yet)
• Guidance
• GMES Advisory Council
• GMES Bureau at EU
• ESA program board
• EU Ministers

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GMES related international initiatives

• GEO
• Intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations
• Global Earth Observation System of Systems
  (GEOSS)
• GMES is the European contribution to GEOSS
• INSPIRE
• Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe
• Directive 2007/2/EC (15th May 2007).
• GMES data will become part of INSPIRE in the
  future
• SEIS
• Shared Environment Information System
• EC, late 2007
• Overall framework for a.o. INSPIRE, GMES,

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Current GMES Services

• Fast track services
• Land
• Water
• Security
• Operational in 2008 (?)
• Pilot service
• Atmosphere
• Started in 2007
• Implementation group to report
• this summer

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GMES Atmosphere Pilot

• Ground based
• Integration AQ monitoring networks
• other in situ networks
• Balloons, ground based RS
• Central role for EEA
• From Space
• Envisat (Gomos, Mipas, Sciamachy)
• Aura with OMI
• GOME2 series on Metop
• Proposed TROPOMI (starting 2014?)
• Sentinel 4 and 5 (starting 2019 ?)
• Central role for ESA

• Integration of information
• Models using data-assimilation
• Integration with meteorological models
• Central role for ECMWF
• Approach
• Like previously in meteorology
• Organized internationally, with national foci on
  regions
• Core services
• Downstream services

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Current GMES-atmosphere projects

• GEMS
• EU-financed GMES-project
• Air Quality forecasts on European scale
• PROMOTE
• ESA-financed GMES-project
• Space part of GMES Service Element Atmosphere
• GEOMON
• EU-financed GMES project (6th framework program)
• Collects and analyses European groundbased and
  satellite data of atmospheric composition, with a
  main focus on climate change
• MACC
• Future EU-funded GMES project, successor of GEMS
  and PROMOTE
• Aims to produce most of the Core Services for
  Atmosphere

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GMES Atmosphere bottom line

• Many activities and developments
• Connection with existing infrastructure needs to
  be improved, this is ongoing
• Distinct role for satellite observations
• Clear opportunity for (and need for) TROPOMI as
• successor to Envisat and OMI (2014 max.)
• precursor to Sentinel 5 (2019 ?)
• afternoon orbit complementary to GOME-2