Copernicus Programme of the EU

and

Synergies with WMO, RA VI and EUMETNET

ICG WIGOS18 February 2015

WMO Geneva

Dr. Silvo ŽlebirEuropean Commission – DG GROWEuropean Environment Agency

EU Contribution to GEOSS !

USERS

OBSERVATION

Policy makers

Private, commercial

Public& &

Space Infrastructure

Land Marine Atmo-sphere Emer-gency

Security Climate Change

Farming Oil Spills Air quality Flood Ice levels

SustainableInformation

Surveillance

InformationServices

Examples

DifferentNeeds

In Situ Infrastructure&

…added-value products

6 Services

Land MonitoringMarine Monitoring

Atmosphere MonitoringEmergency Management

Climate ChangeSecurity

Sentinels

GMES USERS

Coordinated Data Access System

GMES ServicesGMES Services

Contributing missions

In situ observations

Sentinel 1/2/3/4/5 & Jason-CS seriesSentinel 1/2/3/4/5 & Jason-CS series

GMES Space Component

Contributingsatellitemissions

in-situmeasurements

EU and global sources:

-WMO /EUMETNET-EuroGeographics

-EuroGOOS-EuroArgo

-ICOS-EARLINET

-…

INTEGRATED EO Programme

COPERNICUS

Analyses and re-analysesModeling

ForecastingService activations

…

• REGULATION (EU) No 377/2014•OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

•of 3 April 2014•establishing the Copernicus Programme

•and repealing Regulation (EU) No 911/2010

• Objectives of the programme

• Governance of the programme

• Budget for 2014 - 2020Space component 3.394

million €Service & In-situ component 897

million €

Copernicus in transition

Initial Operations

R&D

EU Operational programme

2004 20102008 2014 20202011

Preparatory actions

2013

Dedicated infrastructure

Six operational services

2009 2012

Sentinel 1 – radar imagingAll weather, day/night applications

Sentinel 2 – Optical imagingLand applications: urban, forest, agriculture,..

Sentinel 3+6 – Ocean and global land monitoring, high precision ocean altimetry

Sentinels

Sentinel 4+5 – Atmosphere composition monitoring, from a geostationary (-4) and a polar orbit (-5)

Copernicus Sentinels

Each satellite is technically different to meet the needs of the 6 services

JRC

MERCATOR OCEAN

FRONTEX

EMSA

EUSC

ECMWF

EEA

JRC

ECMWF

EEA

Objectives of the data and information policy

• Promote the use and sharing of Copernicus data and information

• Support the European research, technology and innovation communities

• Strengthen Earth observation markets in Europe, in particular the downstream sector, with a view to enabling growth and job creation !!!

• GEO Data Policy Compliant !

Atmosphere Serviceair temperature, wind direction, wind speed, precipitation, air pressure, humidity, long wave radiation, shortwave (UV) radiation

Emergency Management Serviceprecipitation, air temperature, wind direction, wind speed, humidity

Land Monitoring Serviceair temperature, water vapour, global solar radiation, infrared radiation, snow

Marine Servicetemperature/global ocean, wind information/global ocean

Climate Change Service and Security Service !!

•Requirements on:coverage, timeliness, metrological characteristics, meta data…

•Near-real time and/or Archive data (time series)

In Situ Meteorological DataNeeds of Copernicus Services

Emergency Management Serviceriver discharges, water levels

Marine Servicewater levels

•Requirements on:coverage, timeliness, metrological characteristics, meta data…

•Near-realtime and/or Archive data (time series)

In Situ Hydrological DataNeeds of Copernicus Services

• Main data sources / data providers :

• National (Hydro)Meteorological services

• Other (minority) data providers, e.g.:

• World Radiation Data Centre• Global Runoff Data Centre• …

In Situ Hydro-Meteorological DataNeeds of Copernicus Services

Copernicus – WMO / EUMETNET Partnership

SYNERGIES AND MUTUAL BENEFITS !

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