AIP-2 Kickoff Workshop

Energy SBA Session

Ellsworth LeDrew, University of Waterloo, Canada

Thierry Ranchin, Mines ParisTech, France

GEOSS AIP-2 Kickoff

25-26 September 2008

Session Agenda

• Introduction By Ellsworth LeDrew (5 minutes)• Self introductions of persons in the session (10 min)• Description of the scenario and objectives (5 min)• Presentations by:

– Michael J. Brewer (NOAA NCDC): The US Drought Portal: Contributing to Energy Security and Sustainability (on-line demo)

– Thierry Ranchin (Mines ParisTech): Answers for the "Mines ParisTech team” and Partners

• Open Discussion (20 min)• Develop a work plan for the topic: dates and actions

(10 min)

Energy Session

• Community objectives (from Annex B) linked with Task EN-07-03:– Renewable energy sources (RES) for electricity

production– The exploitation of these energies requires

accurate knowledge of the resources and of their availability (in space and time) as well as accurate forecasts in the different phases of an energy system life cycle.

Scenario objectives

• Support the SBA Energy by developing services providing irradiance data among other parameters

• Simulating the case of the sitting of a solar power plant.

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List of responses

• Data providers:– Mines ParisTech (Primary Participant)– NOAA NCDC NIDIS (Primary Participant)– ACRF, CIESIN, NASA World Wind, NOAA NCDC

GOSIC, NOAA SNAAP (Contributing Participants)• Portal, ClearingHouse and Workflow support:

– Compusult, ESA, ESRI– Testing facilities

– USGS • Enterprise Modelling:

– INCOSE

AIP-2 Master Schedule

 Milestone  Due Date

 CFP Issued    26 June 2008

 Clarification Teleconference   18 July 2008, 1300 UTC

 Kickoff Response Due Date*  1 September 2008

 Kickoff Workshop at NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA

 25-26 September 2008

 Status and Interim results to GEO Plenary

 19-20 November 2008

Final results of Phase 2 AIP   1st Quarter 2009