Presentation to the 26th CEOS Plenary at Bengaluru, India

24-27 October, 2012

Climate Monitoring Architecture and ECV

Inventory

Mark Dowell

The 26th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India - 24-27 October, 2012

Deliverables

• 3-year outcomes defined in course of the CSS

1. Logical Architecture Development (complete)2. Complete first ECV inventory (on-going)

• Maturity matrix• ECV sustained roadmaps

3. WGClimate VC Pilots (on-going)4. COP-18 planning (on-going) – Agenda item 345. Support to CEOS Response to GCOS IP and

Satellite Supplement (complete) – Agenda item 25

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Terms of Reference

The CEOS Climate Working Group will:1. Review and assess, on behalf of CEOS, the generation of Fundamental

Climate Data Records (FCDRs) and derived Essential Climate Variable (ECV) climate products supported by Member space agencies, complementary with existing entities and roles;

2. Contribute to the review of compliance of satellite missions and products with the GCOS Climate Monitoring Principles and with the “Guideline for the Generation of Datasets and Products meeting GCOS Requirements” (GCOS-143);

3. Identify multi-agency implementation teams for each product and review their actions, and ensure that a coherent implementation plan exists for each and every product taking full account of other pertinent international initiatives such as SCOPE-CM and science programmes;

4. Make recommendations to the above teams and receive recommendations from them, for transmission to CEOS Agency Principals;

5. Ensure coherence of climate product generation supported by space agencies, including with other relevant international initiatives, in particular SCOPE-CM, and);

6. Undertake any other relevant activities as instructed by CEOS Chair.

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Climate Monitoring Architecture Report

• Report: final version available and ready for typesetting (NOAA).

• Publication: decision to publish the report as a unbranded document (printed by ESA)

• Website: Will be put on CEOS website after Plenary

This strategy document is also seen as a foundations for the GFCS Monitoring and Observation Pillar

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Logical representation

Traceable to GCOS Guidelines and GCOS Climate Monitoring Principles

Traceable from ECV Inventory and physical representation of Climate Monitoring Architecture

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Way Forward

Describe Current and Planned Implementation Arrangements

(ECV-by-ECV) within the Physical Architecture

Describe Current and Planned Implementation Arrangements

(ECV-by-ECV) within the Physical Architecture

Use the Physical Architecture to Develop a Coordinated Action

Plan to Address Identified Gaps/Shortfalls

Use the Physical Architecture to Develop a Coordinated Action

Plan to Address Identified Gaps/Shortfalls

Define, Validate and Obtain Consensus on Overall Approach

Define, Validate and Obtain Consensus on Overall Approach Short-term

(within 2 years)

Medium-term

(2-4 years)

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How will we use theECV Inventory

1. Describes the current and planned monitoring capability on an ECV basis (allow easier response to e.g. GCOS IP)

2. combined perspective of the logical and physical views should enable the definition of an optimum “macroscale” space system configuration and its components

3. used at the ECV/product level to identify gaps and shortfalls 4. formulation of a coordinated action plan to address such

gaps and shortfalls…5. trigger for the medium-term activities that need to be

undertaken to sustain the long-term implementation of the architecture

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ECV Inventory Questionnaire

• Joint activity with CGMS and WMO• Call released with MIM in May, responses

were due October 5th• Questionnaire form – through a web

interface.• Responses are requested at the dataset level• Addresses both existing/past missions and

future/planned mission in two separate questionnaires

Areas:1. General2. Dataset Usage3. Dataset Stewardship4. Dataset Properties5. Dataset Access

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ECV Inventory Response so far (1/2)

• ECV inventory now contains 171 records submitted for 11 responsible organizations

• No records were submitted for the following ECVs: carbon dioxide, methane, and greenhouse gases; sea state; sea surface salinity; lakes; above ground biomass; ice sheets

• Some records are incomplete and we encourage organizations to continue submitting data so we may begin conducting analyses

• Some organizations have stated this is a partial submission list and require more time

ECV Inventory SummaryDomain ECV NAME Number of Records

Atmosphere Surface Wind 18

Upper-air temperature 6

Water vapor 12

Clouds 31

Precipitation 6

Earth radiation budget 23

Ozone 11

Aerosols 12

Upper-air wind 1

Ocean Sea-ice 6

Sea level 4

Sea surface temperature 5

Ocean Color 4

ECV Inventory SummaryDomain ECV NAME Number of Records

Land Glaciers and ice caps 2

Snow extent 3

Albedo 7

Land cover 3

FAPAR 6

LAI 5

Fire disturbance 1

Soil moisture 2

Land surface temperature 3

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ECV Inventory Response so far (2/2)

• We are prepared to continue to accept entries from agencies (including to complete those currently entered as placeholders) until the end of this calendar year.

• A concern is that for many Agencies we still don’t have specific p.o.c for the ECV Inventory

• We will start out analysis on the datasets available in January.

• We expect to have some preliminary results to show at SIT-28 with a full analysis by the respective CEOS and CGMS 2013 Plenaries

• Many thanks to the SEO (Shelley Stover) and George Dyke for there help in supporting this first ECV Inventory

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MetricsMaturity Matrix

Source J. Bates

• Ultimate ambition – define CEOS “endorsed” Maturity metrics

• Starting point - NOAA effort

• Create a task within WGClimate, to review/modify => improve

• One size may not fit all• It is as much a tool to

monitoring progress as it is to provide a snapshot of current capability

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From WGClimate ToR

Undertake an analysis, addressing each ECV in turn, of the extent to which the current status of production of satellite climate records meets the GCOS requirements, including an analysis of the consistency of definitions of ECVs

Work with the CEOS Virtual Constellations to ensure a coherent and consistent approach to the provision of climate records across their various topical areas

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Who could contribute to this?

Internal1. Virtual

Constellations2. Working Groups

(particularly WGCV)

External1. WCRP-WDAC

2. GEWEX & SPARC

3. Scientific Groups associated with VCs

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End to end analysis of specific ECVs

What need to be done ?• Additional requirements• Assessments• Metrics• Roadmaps

Pilots• SST-VC• OCR-VC• …

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WGClimate and the VCs

• Some VCs already committing to new ECV relevant activities e.g. OCR-VC/IOCCG Standing “WG” on ECV Assessments, SST-VC/GHRSST CDR-TAG

• Generalisation is sometimes impractical (and may not be useful).

• Converging on the following areas (at least for the near-future):• ECV Assessments• Metrics

• ECV Inventory will also provide information for forward looking roadmaps

OCR ECV implementation and assessment

IOCCG Level 1 Requirements Report

International Network for Sensor Inter-comparison and Uncertainty assessment (INSITU-OCR)

IOCCG Standing Working Groupon ECV Assessment

Roadmap for sustained OCR-ECVproduction

ExternalRequirementse.g. GCOS

OCR Sensing Capacity

OCR Climate Data Records

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WCRP WDAC

First WDAC meeting Beijing July• Mark Dowell is CEOS representative, Jörg Schulz is representative for CGMS.

Kerry Sawyer and Jörg attend first WDAC meeting (Kerry also attended JSC) – NB Eric Lindstrom is also a WDAC member as Chair of GCOS-OOPC

• Two concurrent ECV inventory activities under development: 1) CEOS/CGMS/WMO ECV Inventory; and 2) GCOS/NCDC/GOSIC ECV Inventory, which will also consider in situ data (follow on from WOAP workshop in Frascati in April 2011).

• These two inventories really need to be harmonized.• The WDAC proposed the formation of an internal task group composed of Mark

Dowell, Adrian Simmons, Michel Rixen, Otis Brown, and Jörg Schulz to align the two inventories.

• NCDC/GOSIC inventory still needs to update their questionnaire and perhaps align/include the CEOS/CGMS inventory

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Global Framework for Climate Services

• Mark attended the GFCS Observation and Monitoring expert group meeting in December 2011.

• The GFCS IP was available for open review in June-July 2012• It was decided that the required feedback process was not amenable to CEOS submitting comments

and that input should be submitted through Country submissions

• Some of us submitted comments through such channels (e.g. EC) addressing:• Poor representation in the document of space agency coordination mechanism such as CEOS (but

also CGMS)• Clarify that there is already and ongoing activity to define a climate monitoring architecture for

space-based observations

• Some references from the revised verision:• “Climate monitoring from space does not yet have an internationally-agreed architecture, although

efforts to achieve this are underway. “

• Some of our agencies will be represented at the Extraordinary Congress next week, it may be in our interest to ensure that these points are reiterated and to start to discuss on how to best interface with the GFCS process.

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Next WGClimate meeting

• Planned Joint meeting WGClimate-3, adhoc Climate Monitoring Architecture group, SCOPE – CM, WCRP-WDAC

• 18th-22nd February at WMO in Geneva, “Climate from Space” week

• Joint WGClimate & adhoc Climate Monitoring Architecture for first analysis of material from ECV Inventory

• WDAC “session” will be held within WGClimate to further discussion on CEOS-WCRP collaboration concerning Inventory and Assessments

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Points for Discussion

1. ECV Inventory – additional time until end of the year• Help is available

2. VCs and ECVs: is the proposed approach/focus acceptable

3. External linkages/governance: Architecture activity (w/ CGMS-WMO), SCOPE-CM Phase 2, WDAC, GFCS Engagement

4. Merging of Climate SBA and WGClimate ?

• COP-18 Agenda item 34