ESA Climate Change Initiative

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• ESA Climate Change Initiative
• programme status
• March 2011

mark dohery esa
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• CCI

• objectives
• implementation
• projects and teams
• key issues

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CCI objectives
Realize the full potential of the long-term
global EO archives that ESA, together with its
Member states, has established over the last
thirty years..... .. as a significant and
timely contribution to the ECV databases required
by the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change
6 Years / 75 Meuro
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Copenhagen COP15

• Encourages CEOS to continue coordinating and
  supporting the implementation of the satellite
  component of GCOS
• Urges Parties that support space agencies
  involved in global observations to enable these
  agencies to continue to implement, in coordinated
  manner through CEOS, the actions identified in
  the updated CEOS report, in order to meet the
  relevant needs of the Convention, in particular
  by ensuring long-term continuity of observations
  and data availability
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e.g. sea level ECV
a major scientific challenge
GCOS Requirement GCOS Requirement Current Status
Accuracy Stability 1 cm 0.5 mm/decade 2 cm 10 mm/decade
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Two climate action paths
GCOS requirements ltgt CEOS response
CEOS response 2006
GCOS-107 in 2006
GCOS-92 in 2004
GCOS-82 in 2003
CCI is part of ESAs contribution to
the coordinated international response
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CCI International Coordination
CCI International coordination
Main External Partners

• UNFCCC which coordinates the interests and
  decisions of its Parties on Climate Policy,
• GCOS which represents the scientific and
  technical requirements of the Global Climate
  Observing System on behalf of UNFCCC,
• CEOS which serves as a focal point for Earth
  Observation related activities of Space Agencies
  (e.g NOAA, NASA, JAXA, EUMETSAT)
• Individual Partner Space Agencies with whom ESA
  cooperates bilaterally (e.g. EUMETSAT)
• International Climate Research Programmes, which
  represent the collective interests and priorities
  of the worldwide climate research, (e.g. WCRP)
• EC and National Research Programmes which
  establish research priorities and provide
  resources for climate research community within
  Europe (e.g. DG Research, DG-JRC)
• GMES Partners DG Enterprise and Industry, user
  DGs ENV, EEA

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ESA EO Systems past present future
Since 1977
1990 2000
2010 2030
Earthnet Access for European users to
non-European missions Landsat, SeaWifs, NOAA,
JERS, MODIS, ALOS, Proba, Bird, Scisat...
Meteo
METEOSAT Second Generation MSG-1, -2, -3
METEOSATM-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
MTG
in cooperation with EUMETSAT
METOP-1, -2, -3
(Gravity and Ocean Circulation Explorer)
Science
to better understand the Earth System
SMOS
CryoSat-2
(Atmospheric Dynamics Mission)
ADM/Aeolus
SWARM
EarthCare
EE 7
Applications Services
ERS-1, -2
ENVISAT
Sentinel 1
Sentinel 2
to initiate long term monitoring systems and
services
Sentinel 3
Sentinel 4/5
Sentinel 5PC
GMES in cooperation with EC
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GMES Sentinels

Sentinel 1 SAR imaging All weather, day/night
applications, interferometry
2012 (A), 2014 (B) TBD
Sentinel 2 Multispectral imaging Land
applications urban, forest, agriculture,..
Continuity of Landsat, SPOT
2013 (A), 2014 (B) TBD
Sentinel 3 Ocean and global land
monitoring Wide-swath ocean colour, vegetation,
sea/land surface temperature, altimetry
2013 (A), 2014 (B) TBD
Sentinel 4 Geostationary atmospheric Atmospheric
composition monitoring, trans- boundary pollution
2018
Sentinel 5 and Precursor Low-orbit
atmospheric Atmospheric composition monitoring
2014 (5P), 2019
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CCI starts with 11 ECVs
CCI First Steps (11 ECVs) Later in CCI (10
ECVs) Not in CCI (24 ECVs)
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multiple sensors.consistency..
ESA missions data gt FCDRs gt ECVs
Sea Level
SST
Ocean Colour
Sea state
Ocean salinity
Sea ice concentration
Lakes
Glaciers ice caps
Land cover
faPAR
LAI
Biomass
Burned area active fire
Soil moisture (research)
Snow area
Albedo
Cloud properties
O3 total and profiles
Aerosol OD other props
GHGs distribution
Upper air winds
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what we want to achieve
specialized climate research groups
specialized EO data groups
ECV 1
consistent global satellite data products for
climate research
international climate research community (
GCOS WCRP)
ECV 2
ECV 3
international EO community (CEOS)
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CCI phased implementation

• Phase 1 (3y)
• scientific user consultation
• detailed specifications
• prototyping
• Phase 2 (3y)
• operational systems
• Implementation
• production
• Phase 3 (6y !)
• user assessment

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next 3 years gt CCI phase 1 Cardinal Requirements

• Develop and validate algorithms to meet GCOS ECV
  requirements for (consistent, stable,
  error-characterized) global satellite data
  products from multi-sensor data archives
• Optimize impact of ESA EO missions data on
  climate data records
• Produce, within RD context, most complete and
  consistent possible multi-sensor global satellite
  data products for climate research and modelling
• Generate complete specifications for an
  operational production system
• Strengthen inter-disciplinary cooperation between
  international earth observation, climate research
  and modelling communities, in pursuit of
  scientific excellence

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CCI Project teams
ECV Science Leader
cloud_cc DWD
ozone_cci BIRA
aerosol_cci DLR/FMI
chg_cci U Bremen
sst_cci U Edinburgh
landcover_cci UCL
sealevel_cci CLS
oceancolour_cci PML
glaciers_cci U. Zurich
fire _cci U.Alcala
CMUG
UKMO Hadley
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CMUG

• Climate modeling user group (CMUG)
• Hadley Centre Meteo-F MPI ECMWF
• gateway to international climate modelling
  community
• focal point for all ECV teams

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CCI project teams
Science Leader
Project Manager
Specialised climate research team
System Engineer(s)
EO Science Team
research Institutes
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CCI projects schedule x 11
2010
2011
2012
2013
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CCI global data products

• some ECVs are...
• - state variables of models,
• - forcing, or boundary conditions,
• poorly or not represented in Models
• inter-linkede.g. cloud, aerosol,
• of probabilistic nature e.g. clouds

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confronting observations and models
Mr. EO
Miss. Clim Science
Mr. Modeller
knowledge exchange to better quantify climate
change .
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coupled climate models
In yellow used within CCI
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forecast / re-analysis / other
In yellow used within CCI
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CCI multiple levels of scrutinypeer review and
feedback
round-robin data package
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key issues

• uncertainty characterization
• openness, traceability, repeatability
• data standards
• scientific cooperation

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• integrated
• and consistent
• approach
• to generating
• space-based
• climate records

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• CCI teams are working now
• together

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CCI news

• Additional ECVs starting 2011
• sea_ice_cci
• ice_sheets_cci
• soil_moisture_cci