Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-241 World Meteorological Organization Working together in weather, climate and water WMO Space Programme Report 12 th Asia Pacific Satellite Data Exchange and Utilization meeting 24 th North America-Europe Data Exchange meeting Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, October 2012 J é rôme Lafeuille WMO Space Programme WMO

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-242 Observation capabilities Information & capacity building Access to data and products EO products & applications Cross- cutting WMO Space Programme Activity Areas

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-243 Observation capabilities Information & capacity building Access to data and products EO products & applications Cross- cutting WMO Space Programme Activity Areas

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX Strategic Plan Priorities Climate : Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) Aviation meteorological services Capacity building for developing & least developed countries Integration of observation/information systems (WIGOS/WIS) Disaster risk reduction

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-245 The WMO Space Programme Office Dr Wenjian ZHANG Director Observing & Information Systems Dept. Director Space Programme Mr Jerome LAFEUILLE Chief, Space-based Observing Systems Dr Stephan BOJINSKI Scientific Officer Satellite Utilization Mr Nils HETTICH JPO, IT matters Ms Mireille HERIN Secretary (50%)

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-246 Recent and upcoming major events Commission for Basic Systems (CBS-15) –Jakarta, Sept 2012 –Fred Branski President, Sue Barrell Vice-Pres. Extraordinary Congress on GFCS –29-31 Oct 2012, Geneva CGMS-40 –Lugano, Switzerland, 5-8 Nov 2012 –High-level priority plan –Linkage with science groups (ITWG, IPWG, IWWG, IROWG)

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-247 Observation capabilities Information & capacity building Access to data and products EO products & applications Cross- cutting

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-248 Space-based observing system Overview (Oct 2012) 12 operational geostationary satellites 6 operational sun-synchronous R&D satellites in polar orbit Other (inclined) orbits Recent launches: Megha-Tropiques (ISRO-CNES) Suomi-NPP (NOAA) FY-2F (CMA) GCOM-W1 (JAXA) MSG-3 (EUMETSAT) Metop-B (EUMETSAT)

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-249 Space-based observing system Upcoming operational satellite generations / sensors GEO –2013: INSAT-3D –2014: Himawari/AMI –2015: FY-4/AGRI –2016: GOES-R/ABI –2017: GEO-Kompsat-2A/AHI –2018: MTG-I/FCI –2020: MTG-S/IRS LEO –JPSS (2016)  CBS-15 Guideline on User Preparation for new op. sat systems CBS-15 Guideline on User Preparation for new op. sat systems Information, proxy data sets, product pre-development, parallel operation, guidelines for data access/equipment, training Establish a User Readiness project

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-2410 Space-based observing system Facilitating further integration Rolling Review of Requirements Global planning –CGMS baseline, Manual on the GOS –Architecture for climate monitoring from space GSICS (intercalibration) Product quality harmonization Data format and metadata standards

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-2411 Rolling Review of (observation) Requirements database OSCAR ( (1) References of > 500 satellites > 700 instruments with characteristics and indication of relevant variables

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-2412 Rolling Review of (observation) Requirements database OSCAR ( (2) Gap Analysis by function or by variable

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-2413 Intercalibration ( gsics.wmo.int ) GSICS Product Catalogue

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-2414

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-2415 Observation capabilities Information & capacity building Access to data and products EO products & applications Cross- cutting

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-2416 Products and applications Best practices on product quality (e.g. « maturity matrix ») –Algorithm validation, documentation, software maintenance, availability, quality assurance, data stewardship… Collaborative product development/generation –SCOPE-Climate Monitoring –SCOPE-Nowcasting and SWFDP –RGB composite imagery –Volcanic ash detection ? Important role of international science groups –Sounding (ITWG), Winds (IWWG), Radio-occultation (IROWG), Precipitation (IPWG)

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-2417 Observation capabilities Information & capacity building Access to data and products EO products & applications Cross- cutting

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-2418 Facilitating access to data and products « IGDDS strategy » CBS-15 Procedure to define regional data access requirements –RA-I, RA-III/IV, RA-V… (acknowledging NAEDEX/APSDEU for NWP) Promote multi-mission DVB-S retransmission services –e.g. EUMETCast, CMACast, with « regional » contents –Issue with coverage of America and Pacific Promote Direct Broadcast standards for LEO –CBS-XV recommended X-Band + L-Band for future LEO –Regional ATOVS Retransmission System (RARS) for near-real time sounding data for NWP WIS metadata standards for data discovery and retrieval « Access Guides » on –Data Access Guide (will be transferred to OSCAR) –Product Access Guide access-guide_en.phphttp:// access-guide_en.php

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-2419 Different levels of requirements Services Outreach and education Information chain Requirements

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-2420 RARS expansion to advanced sounders Way forward defined at ITSC-18 i.Implement /upgrade for Metop and for NPP receiving stations ii.Implement adequate servers (computing power at each station) iii.Install CSPP and AAPP iv.Organize the telecommunications at the regional level –taking into account station locations, GTS hubs, and bandwidth –Concentration by FTP and dissemination by xxxCast ? v.Start with retransmission of Metop/ATOVS products vi.Define filenames and/or bulletin headers for the new products vii.Proceed with Metop/IASI and NPP products retransmission –Channel selection and/or Principal Components ? –With/without overlap among stations ? viii.Inform and seek feedback from NWP community

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-2421 Observation capabilities Information & capacity building Access to data and products EO products & applications Cross- cutting

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-2422 Information and capacity building Biennial survey on satellite use by WMO Members Regional users’ conferences: –AOMSUC (Jeju 2012, Melbourne 2013) –EUMETSAT (Sopot 2012, Vienna 2013) –EUMETSAT User Forum in Africa (Addis, 2012) –NOAA (Miami 2011, Maryland 2013) Virtual Laboratory (VLab)

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-2423 Observation capabilities Information & capacity building Access to data and products EO products & applications Cross- cutting

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-2424 Other activities: Space Weather Involves 19 WMO Members & 7 international organizations Observation requirements taken into account in the RRR Space Weather warning services to aviation being discussed with ICAO Space Weather product portal Initial training modules

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-2425 Conclusions: key messages CBS recommended review process for sat data access requirements CBS recommended user readiness projects for new sat generations OSCAR resource now available (Feedback?) GSICS resource now available RARS / advanced sounders: –open questions to NAEDEX/APSDEU Direct Broadcast dissemination –Frequency & standard issues Regional retransmission systems (xxxCast) –Coverage and content to be further consolidated

Exeter, Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-2426