Presentation to the 26 th CEOS Plenary at Bengaluru, India October, 2012 Climate Monitoring Architecture and ECV Inventory Mark Dowell

The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India 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 34 5.Support to CEOS Response to GCOS IP and Satellite Supplement (complete) – Agenda item 25

The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India October, 2012 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.

The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India October, 2012 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

The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India October, 2012 Logical representation Traceable to GCOS Guidelines and GCOS Climate Monitoring Principles Traceable from ECV Inventory and physical representation of Climate Monitoring Architecture

The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India October, 2012 Way Forward 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 Define, Validate and Obtain Consensus on Overall Approach Short-term (within 2 years) Medium-term (2-4 years)

The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India October, 2012 How will we use the ECV 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

The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India October, 2012 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.General 2.Dataset Usage 3.Dataset Stewardship 4.Dataset Properties 5.Dataset Access

The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India October, 2012 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 Summary DomainECV NAMENumber of Records AtmosphereSurface Wind18 Upper-air temperature6 Water vapor12 Clouds31 Precipitation6 Earth radiation budget23 Ozone11 Aerosols12 Upper-air wind1 OceanSea-ice6 Sea level4 Sea surface temperature5 Ocean Color4

ECV Inventory Summary DomainECV NAMENumber of Records LandGlaciers and ice caps2 Snow extent3 Albedo7 Land cover3 FAPAR6 LAI5 Fire disturbance1 Soil moisture2 Land surface temperature3

The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India October, 2012 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

The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India October, 2012 Metrics Maturity 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

The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India October, 2012 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

The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India October, 2012 Who could contribute to this? Internal 1.Virtual Constellations 2.Working Groups (particularly WGCV) External 1.WCRP-WDAC 2.GEWEX & SPARC 3.Scientific Groups associated with VCs

The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India October, 2012 End to end analysis of specific ECVs What need to be done ? Additional requirements Assessments Metrics Roadmaps Pilots SST-VC OCR-VC …

The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India October, 2012 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 Group on ECV Assessment Roadmap for sustained OCR-ECV production External Requirements e.g. GCOS OCR Sensing Capacity OCR Climate Data Records

The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India October, 2012 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

The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India October, 2012 Global Framework for Climate Services Mark attended the GFCS Observation and Monitoring expert group meeting in December 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.

The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India October, 2012 Next WGClimate meeting Planned Joint meeting WGClimate-3, adhoc Climate Monitoring Architecture group, SCOPE – CM, WCRP- WDAC 18 th -22 nd 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

The 26 th CEOS Plenary – Bengaluru, India October, 2012 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