GMES Atmosphere Services (GAS)

Arno Kaschl arno.kaschl@ec.europa.eu

GMES BureauEuropean Commission

EARTH OBSERVINGSYSTEMS

(space, airborne, in-situ)

PUBLICPOLICIES

(Environment & Security)

Information

Needs(policy driven)

GMES

joint initiative of the European Commission and ESA

relevant information to policy-makers and many other users autonomous capacity to generate & deliver Earth

observation-derived information on environment & security: strategic for EU

Three Service areas based on Earth systems:• Land Monitoring: initially European land cover & urban spots• Marine Monitoring: sea state & ecosystem characteristics over

global ocean & European regional seas• Atmospheric Monitoring: atmospheric composition for air quality

(European) and climate forcing (global), ozone monitoring (global) and solar energies

Further, horizontal components:• Emergency Response• Security• Climate Change

GMES Services

For service definition + user input, the following mechanism has been put in place:

• User Workshop on 6/7 December 2006100 participants from 27 countries and from relevant European institutions (i.e. DG’s, Agencies,etc.) Workshop Report (+ Orientation Paper): recommendations for a future Core Service

• Implementation Group + 4 Working Groups, expert groups (45 people, 18 countries), has met 6 times since June 2007 to provide guidelines and recommendations on scope, functionality/architecture, core and downstream services, space and in situ observation infrastructure, governance, funding of each GMES service;

• Service preparation: • FP6 - GEMS about 10 M€• ESA GMES Service Element - PROMOTE about 5 M€• FP7 – MACC about 11 M€

• Operational phase

Definition of GAS

Introducing GAS

• Services already exist dynamical/physical (meteorological)

• Atmospheric composition ("the "chemosphere") is of major importance for environment, climate & climate change.

• GAS aims at integrating the monitoring & modeling of the atmospheric constituents at global, regional & local scales.

GAS and its service chain will contribute to serve a broadened community of users in different fields (environment, health, transport, renewables..).. Achieving this is the main challenge.

GAS will improve the description, understanding, forecasting of atmosphere expand it: surface fluxes (emission/deposition), scenarios depending upon man-made decisions.

Scope: towards users

GAS should address the needs of

Many user communities including - national and regional authorities & environmental agencies- national meteorological & health agencies - research/science community -private sector/SMEs- EU citizens- NGOs - Other GMES services -developing countries-...

EU and MS : policies in - air quality - climate change mitigation & adaptation- renewable energies - ozone layer preservation

International Commitments: - Kyoto- CLRTAP- Montreal

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CS versus DS

Air quality• Local air quality forecasts (urban scale) boundary conditions provided by GAS• Improved air-quality-related alerts and forecasts by health services for extreme events (combined heat, UV-B and poor AQ) • Analysis of local air polution abatement policies• Supporting development of effective air pollution abatement measures through proper apportionment of sources…

Climate forcing• Identification, assessment and monitoring of regional/local sources and sinks of greenhouse gases

Solar radiation• Solar-radiation potential analysis, policy scenario analysis, energy yield mapping, support ot network management, plant management…

CS criteria • Geographical scale: global, regional (= European)• Meet needs of DS & end users

• Avoid duplications of efforts and operations

Examples for GAS DS

Core Service content

Four principal themes (1) air quality (AQ)(2) climate forcing (CF) (3) stratospheric O3 (+UV)(4) solar radiation

data • Observational • NRT (AQ)• GCOS ECV (CF) • gridded fields• easy access

Added value from • combined space & in situ • models (assimilation)

products• Forecasts• Assessments :

•Trends derived from reanalysis•'low volume' information •Contributions to scenarios •Sources and sinksService Outputs

Global component: ozone & UV-radiation, greenhouse gases, aerosolsEuropean component: air quality, CO2 sources

GAS architecture

Downstream ServicesOther GMES Core Services

EUROPEAN ENSEMBLE

Monit., Assim. & Forecasting

EUROPEAN ENSEMBLE

Monit., Assim. & Forecasting

EUROPEAN ENSEMBLE

Monit., Assim. & Forecasting

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OBS ACQUISITION and PRE-PROC

QC, Validation, Multi-sensor processing

OBSERVATION SUPPLY and CALIBRATION

Space Agencies / In Situ ground networks / Aircraft programmes

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GLOBAL Monitoring, Assim. & Forecasting

Implementation: Foundations

Existing assets

World leading numerical weather prediction capacities (ECMWF, NMS) Modelling and information systems (national, regional and local public institutions or private companies) European & international observation capacities

o European air quality & atmospheric chemistry in situ observation networkso European space observations systems: EUMETSAT (operational) & ESA (R&D)o International cooperation framework e.g. for data exchange

Research institutions and communities• Previous and current R&D projects funded at national or European level

• Main challenges: Ensure sustainability of existing assets on an operational basis, with appropriate governance and funding built into the system Implement the appropriate level of integration and coordination Enable adaptation and evolution driven by user needs

development

Space observations: recommendations by IGIn situ observations: recommendations by IG; EEA as coordinator to lead a consolidation process; EC funding to support contributions to international networksUser involvement: needs to become a priority; creation of user forums to interact with MACC and post-MACCR&D: essential for a successful GAS

Rely on on-going (GEMS & PROMOTE) & future (MACC) pilot projects to prefigure CS implementation

IG might advise EC and project partners

Target is a fully operational service by 2014, flexible to incorporate advances; e.g. full coupling of chemistry and weather models (ca. 2020), new capacities: Sentinel-4 data (2017+)

data policy

GAS services are public goods & wholly funded by the EU & Member States C.S. outputs to be free and openly available.

Pilot project: + All MACC products publicly available;+ Meteorological data fields may be free (except handling charges) for GMES DS purposes, unless aimed at commercial services (usual ECMWF data policy to be applied) + Regional model outputs freely available+ Some NRT data necessary for modelling operations are restricted to CS.

timeline

Fall 2008: GMES governance principles (EC Communication)

2008+ + interfaces between GAS and Downstream Services (linking with expected FP7 DS projects)

+ Interaction with user communities in pilot phase Bureau, EEA/EIONET, ISOWG + support group, GAC, MACC..

2009-2010 Address more in detail funding issues inc. cost estimate of the GAS provision, support to in situ observation infrastructure

2009-2011 IG monitors the GAS implementation through FP7 MACC project

2010-2011 Guidelines for the setting-up of the GAS provision scheme and of related GAS coordination structure

2014: new EC Financial Perspectives -> operational funding line

Added value for you

GMES will… - ensure a free and open access to the GMES services- enable downstream services in a variety of areas at national, regional and local level

(GMES economy) - Pilot services are increasingly putting available services on-line- MACC will converge the PROMOTE & GEMS consortia and services continuity of

services for existing users- MACC open to new users- clearly also address the policy needs of member states and their institutions (not only

needs at EU policy level); e.g. AQ policies - be an effective means of supporting national agencies, NGOs, citizens in assessing

and understanding problem related to our environment (AQ, CF,..)- help member states meet their reporting obligations under EU laws (e.g. air quality) and

their international obligations (e.g. Kyoto, Montreal) - enable to sustainably and operationally monitor long-term trends of climate a -> long,

uninterrupted time series of quality data, continuous satellite series monitoring environment and security in the future -> adaptation

Added value for you

16/17 September 2008: French Presidency Conference, Lille

User / service focus

Demonstrators: presenting operational GMES products to users

Website:www.forumgmes2008.eu

GMES Forum

Thank you!