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Page 1© Crown copyright 2004 Upper air networks: GCOS requirements Peter Thorne February 2005

Page 2© Crown copyright 2004 AOPC Working Group on Temperature Trends  Set up to advise AOPC on temperature trends at the surface and aloft.  Peter Thorne (Chair), John Christy, Imke Durre, Mitch Goldberg, Tom Karl, Neville Nicholls, Dian Seidel, Adrian Simmons, Kevin Trenberth, Panmao Zhai.  First major task:  To help produce proposal for upper-air reference network by end of 2005.

Page 3© Crown copyright Defining the scientific requirement  Setting up and maintaining observing networks is expensive and requires a clear rationale:  The apparent discrepancy between surface and tropospheric temperatures over the satellite era shows how important joined up network design is if we are to effectively monitor climate.  The requirement going forward is for the accurate characterisation of not just temperature, but also humidity, trace gases, winds, and other variables.  Important to confirm climate model “hindcasts” not just of temperature but also other variables.

Page 4© Crown copyright 2004 MSU – a why to! Raw radiances Grey box Inter-satellite changes Intra-satellite changes Decisions made will always involve a degree of subjectivity in absence of agreed transfer standards K per decade 0.04K UAH 0.13K RSS 0.17K V & G

Page 5© Crown copyright GCOS cascade of networks  Comprehensive global observing networks  All stations that report over the GTS or at a later date. Multiple data types including satellite data. Required to understand fine space and timescale structure changes and variability.  Baseline global observing networks  Limited number of selected long-term stations to provide characterisation of global / large scale changes (and anchor Comprehensive networks).  Reference networks  Provide highly detailed and accurate observations at a small number of stations. Two aims: (i) long- term accurate timeseries and (ii) calibration of more global networks (including satellites).

Page 6© Crown copyright Current GCOS upper-air networks status  Comprehensive network  Many radiosondes are being dropped altogether or decreasing their launch frequency.  Increasing amount of ground-based and aircraft- based sounding instrumentation.  Plans to continue ATOVS type satellite soundings in an AM/PM overpass for at least a decade.  New GPS occultation retrievals  Multi-spectral measurements coming on-line will increase satellite data vertical resolution and hugely increase data volumes.

Page 7© Crown copyright 2004 All radiosonde stations which have ever recorded and been at least partially digitally archived regardless of the length of the record.

Page 8© Crown copyright 2004 Radiosonde coverage for 1958 Average number of soundings per day: 1609 (source: ECMWF)

Page 9© Crown copyright 2004 Radiosonde coverage for 1979 Average number of soundings per day: 1626 (Source: ECMWF)

Page 10© Crown copyright 2004 Radiosonde coverage for 2001 Average number of soundings per day: 1189 (Source: ECMWF)

Page 11© Crown copyright 2004  Baseline network – GUAN  161 globally spread radiosonde stations  Mandated by GCOS (and agreed by NMS’s) to continuously monitor upper-air variability by twice daily launches of radiosondes.  Monitoring at ECMWF (daily) and Hadley Centre (monthly).  Metadata available from NCDC.  Climate products available from Hadley Centre and NCDC.

Page 12© Crown copyright 2004 Caveat: this considers only CLIMAT TEMP reports. Some stations make soundings but do not report CLIMAT TEMPs. Likely 10-20% under-estimate of performance.

Page 13© Crown copyright 2004  Work in hand / potential modifications to GUAN:  NCDC are actively trying to improve metadata for GUAN sites.  There are a few requests to add / change stations from certain NMS’s that are under consideration.  Recent efforts have been made to improve the reporting performance for a number of stations, particularly remote island stations (but we’re still not getting 100% performance!)

Page 14© Crown copyright 2004  Gan, Maldives - restarted the station September 2004  Penrhyn, Cook islands - restarted in July 2004  Laoag, Philippines - only 1 report in 2003, we have received 5 of the last 8 months  Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina - stopped in 2001, restarted November 2004  Juan Santamaria, Costa Rica, restarted September 2004  Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Galapagos; Yerevan, Armenia all restarted but no CLIMAT TEMP reports to date

Page 15© Crown copyright 2004  Reference network  Proposed in the GCOS Implementation Plan (2004) and the primary driver behind GCOS involvement in this workshop series.  Expected to be operational by 2009 (requires plan by end of 2005)  Should be a subset of the GUAN network (some latitude to change GUAN network)  Needs to be aligned with all users including satellite agencies.

Page 16© Crown copyright 2004  Action A16 (GIP, 2004): “Specify and implement a Reference Network of high-altitude, high-quality radiosondes, including operational requirements and data management, archiving and analysis.” Initialising and implementing this network on a five year timetable is a very high priority.

Page 17© Crown copyright The GCOS requirement from this workshop series  This workshop series should produce a final proposal for the upper-air reference network:  Scientific justification  Siting options and rationale.  Technical requirements  Instrumentation (not limited to radiosondes alone)  Launch protocols (for sondes)  Stewardship, metadata and archival requirements  Costings