1. Background to IGWCO CoP and the present set of GEOGLOWS Deliverables

2. Functions of the Present IGWCO CoP
Assists in the coordination of the GEO Water Task
Serves as an incubator for new ideas.
Contributes to the assessment of the progress of the GEO Water Task.
Coordinates the implementation of the GOESS Water Strategy.
Contributes to the User interaction component for GEO Water.
Serves as a venue for exchanging information of relevant water activities.
Who can join? Anyone with an interest in water

3. Use the IGWCO (GW?) CoP Structure for Implementation (making changes as needed)

4. GEO Water tasks restructuring
2016 WP WP
Former structure and former leads
New strucure
Community activities
CA-11: Soil Moisture - P. Van Oevelen / C. Rudiger
(New) In-situ observations for Water Cycle ð Wolfgang Grab
CA-12: River Discharge - W. Grabs / D. Berod
CA-13: Groundwater - N. Kukuric
CA-14: GEO Water Quality – S. Greb
AquaWatch ð Steven Greb
CA-15 (part of): Water Cycle Capacity Building - A. Gutierrez
(New) DIAS (including WCI, AWCI, AfWCCI) ð Toshio Koike
CA-18: Water Cycle Integrator (WCI) - T. Koike
CA-20: EarthH2Observe - J. Schnellekens
EartH2Observe ðJaap Schellekens
CA-19: E2E Water Indicators - C. Vörösmarty
(New) Water-Energy-Food Nexus ðR. Lawford / C. J. Vörösmarty / R. Hossain
CA-22: Linking water tasks with wider SBA & the post-2015 global development framework - R. Lawford / A. Strauch
Initiatives
CA-16: global drought information system (GDIS) – W. Pozzi
(New) GDIS (Global Drought Information System) ðWill Pozzi
GI-11: Information Services for Cold Region (GEOCRI) - Y. Qiu
GEOCRI (Information Services for Cold Region) ðYubao Qiu
CA-07: integrated water-cycle products and services - R. Lawford
Included in ↓
Ca-08: water vapor and clouds (and aerosol and precipitation) - R. R. Ferraro
Ca-09: precipitation - G. J. Huffman
Ca-10: evapotranspiration - F. S. Melton
Ca-15: water cycle capacity building - A. Gutierrez
Ca-17: geo great lakes activity - G. Faveri
GI-20 GEO Global Water Sustainability (GEOGLOWS)
GEOGLOWS (GEO Global Water Sustainability) ð Angelica Gutierrez / Bradley Doorn / Nate Booth
Elements have gone to GEOGLOWS
In blue: Affiliated with GEOGLOWS

5. GEO Global Water Sustainability (GEOGLOWS)
1. Enhancing Global Water Sustainable Development
Water and the SDGs
Scarcity and Access
Climate Change
Cold Regions
Ecosystems and Biodiversity
2. Minimizing Basin and Regional Risk
Integrated Water Prediction
Floods
Droughts
Transboundary Issues (IWRM)
Land Use Change
Water-Energy-Food- Environment-Health Nexus
Climate Change Adaptation
3. Understanding Essential Water
Variables (EWV)
Water Quality
Water Use
Water Cycle Variables (Precipitation, Soil Moisture, Groundwater, Evapotranspiration, Stream Flow, Surface Water Storage (Includes Snow Pack))
4. Earth Observations, Integrated Data Products and Applications, and Tool Development
5. Data Sharing, Dissemination of Data, Information, Products, and Knowledge
6. User Engagement, Capacity Building and AmeriGEOSS
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6. Theme 1: Enhancing Global Water Sustainability
2017: GEO Columbia will host a meeting with national stakeholders to develop SDG water indicators, to assess national data capabilities, and the potential contributions of GEO in addressing them.
2017: The US will conclude High-level cooperation agreements with Argentina and Columbia outlining official commitments to GEOGLOWS and agreements to jointly develop initiatives related to SDGs and other priority water issues.
: GEOGLOWS will complete a plan for developing a routine estimation of water use (with USGS, NASA ET, etc.). There is a critical need to produce more water use data that will allow water managers to assess trends over time and to support water efficiency monitoring for the SDGs. The USGS is updating comprehensive water use information through the U.S. Water Census. These techniques need to be expanded to create a global water use monitoring capability. The consumptive loss of water through evapotranspiration by crops accounts for 70% of global use. The USGS is using remote sensing of ET to help monitor this critical loss. Working with NASA and other agencies, USGS could help further quantify and update this critical water component globally. (Lead: USGS, NASA [TBD])

7. Theme 2: Minimizing Basin and Regional Risk
2017: GEOGLOWS will launch the development of a global water cycle monitor. For example, the NASA Global Land Data Assimilation System provides retrospective water availability assessments that can be enhanced for near-real time outputs at resolutions of 1-km and finer resolutions ( This global water monitor would track variations and trends in terrestrial water storage and groundwater using GRACE satellite data and global floods using precipitation from satellite and in-situ data along with modelling that permits global to local outputs (see Near-real time flood inundation mapping from MODIS may also be incorporated (see Earth observation data would be used to initialize forecasts and provide hydrologic predictions over a range of scales (days, months, years, and decades). (Lead: NASA [TBD])
2017: GEOGLOWS will launch studies on the use of Earth observations in a Water-Energy-Food-Environment-Health Nexus. This activity would address recommendations from an on-going Future Earth Water-Energy-Food (W-E-F) Security Nexus project as it relates to Earth observations and information systems. Several testbeds for addressing some of these issues would be launched in collaboration with Future Earth and an assessment of the stressors on the W-E-F Nexus in North America would be undertaken. (Lead: NASA)

8. Theme #2 Continued:
2017: GEOGLOWS will contribute to coordinated drought monitoring and early warning systems using a combination of satellites, in-situ data, composite data analysis, and model-derived products. The social, economic, and ecosystem impacts of drought often depend on their time scale and duration, intensity, and spatial extent. A new perspective on the use of Earth observations will be explored based on the drought risk concept. This approach will consider drought impacts and track the contributors to those impacts in a dynamic probability framework. A new perspective based on drought risk will be explored to determine the extent to which remote sensing data can be used to assess drought risk in terms of those factors which contribute most substantially to economic and social impacts. (Lead: NASA)
2017: Develop Version 2.0 of the IWP prediction system to meet the needs of the U.S. community for better predictions, and also enable opportunities for other nations to develop their own capacity (NOAA-Lead).
2017: The Joint Research Center of the European Commission is planning to implement a GloFAS SOS server similar to HydroServer (OGC SOS) for GloFAS forecasts and as a contribution to the GEOGLOWS initiative. This would allow users to link observations with forecasts either within GloFAS or within the HydroServer visualization interface or, in fact, with any interface capable of working with OGC SOS. (Lead: JRC)
2017: Produce global groundwater drought/wetness indicator maps through GRACE and GRACE FO data assimilation, which are analogous to the U.S. maps (NASA – M. Rodell)

9. (and beyond): Launch a pilot project for the Magdalena River in Colombia using in-situ observations provided by CIRMAG for the calibration of the Copernicus Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) by the JRC/EU.  The long-term objective of this project is to use near-real-time runoff observations, served through an OGC-Sensor Observation Service (SOS), to bias-correct the GloFAS forecasts (JRC –Lead?).
: Integrated Water Prediction in the Great Lakes Region. The GEOGLOWS (NOAA) IWP capabilities will be applied to the international Great Lakes Region. A critical part of this activity is the development of a harmonized data base, including spatial data on hydrologic network topology and geophysical attributes for the Great Lakes region, that enables the implementation of the requisite community modeling. Based on a June 2016 workshop on the development of binational data for hydrological modeling applications across Great Lakes region the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) will lead the development of the geospatial fabric of the hydrological model in collaboration with Environment Canada (EC), and will take the lead in the research of new model capabilities to be implemented in the operational system at the NWC (NOAA – Lead?).

10. Theme 3: Essential Water Variable (EWV) Understanding
2017: Produce global groundwater drought/wetness indicator maps through GRACE and GRACE FO data assimilation, which are analogous to the U.S. maps (NASA – M. Rodell)
2017: (Precipitation – 1): Some High-Resolution Precipitation Products (HRPP) such as GSMaP, CMORPH, and IMERG products (currently limited to the latitude band 60°N-S) will be extended to fully global coverage. 
2017: Satellite ET estimates will be used to inform irrigation management (water loss is needed to estimate irrigation amounts and adherence to state water allocations) as part of the Satellite Irrigation Support (SIMS) with the California Department of Water Resources.
2018: (Precipitation – 2): Some HRPPs will establish experimental combined model-observation analyses, using numerical model-based precipitation estimates as an additional input to the combination algorithm.  This will allow comparisons between model-observation and observation-only combination products. 
2018: An operational global soil moisture product from the assimilation of remotely-sensed soil moisture observations into a standardized soil moisture model for improved agricultural forecasting and water accounting.
: Methodologies and models will be developed to integrate in-situ, satellite, and aircraft snow monitoring data from moderate- and high-resolution instruments to provide estimates of surface water availability and advice on spring flooding potential. (Lead: NOAA)

11. Theme 4: Earth Observations, Integrated Data Products and Applications, and Tool Development
 2017: An inventory of GEOGLOWS activities that contribute to the implementation of the GEOSS Water Strategy will be developed.
 2017: Develop Version 2.0 of the IWP prediction system to meet the needs of the U.S. community for better predictions, and also enable opportunities for other nations to develop their own capacity.
2017: Satellite ET estimates will be used to inform irrigation management (water loss is needed to estimate irrigation amounts and adherence to state water allocations) as part of the Satellite Irrigation Support (SIMS) with the California Department of Water Resources.
2017: (Precipitation – 1): Some High-Resolution Precipitation Products (HRPP) such as GSMaP, CMORPH, and IMERG products (currently limited to the latitude band 60°N-S) will be extended to fully global coverage. 
: Methodologies and models will be developed to integrate in-situ, satellite, and aircraft snow monitoring data from moderate- and high-resolution instruments to provide estimates of surface water availability and advice on spring flooding potential. (Lead: NOAA)
2018: (Precipitation – 2): Some HRPPs will establish experimental combined model-observation analyses, using numerical model-based precipitation estimates as an additional input to the combination algorithm.  This will allow comparisons between model-observation and observation-only combination products. 
 2018: An operational global soil moisture product from the assimilation of remotely-sensed soil moisture observations into a standardized soil moisture model for improved agricultural forecasting and water accounting.

12. Theme 5: Data Sharing, Dissemination of Data, Information, Products, and Knowledge
2017: A plan will be developed through the Open Water Data Initiative (OWDI) for US agencies and GEOGLOWS member countries to ensure the development of a coherent interoperable data system.
2017: A plan will be developed for improving the integration and archiving of non-traditional in-situ data (e.g., Soil Moisture Network data) with satellite data.
2017: A plan for the standardizing the curation of in-situ water data will be developed. This will involve standards for monitoring, sampling, formats, and other related elements and, within the GEO data framework, seek concurrence among IAHS, CODATA, WMO, and others. An initial step will be taken through discussions within the AmeriGOESS program

13. Theme 6: User Engagement, Capacity Building, and AmeriGEOSS
2017: CIEHLYC webinars will continue throughout 2017.
2017: GEOGLOWS will co-sponsor a meeting with IGWCO COP in Tuscaloosa, AL. This meeting may also host either a users’ workshop or special session to initiate a dialogue between GEOGLOWS and users with a view to clarifying their need and their understanding of the benefits of GEOGLOWS and GEO products.
2017: Through SERVIR, GEOGLOWS will continue to work collaboratively with ministries of water in Himalaya and in Eastern and Southern Africa to improve hydrologic simulations and drought characterization. SERVIR will also increase the use of global seasonal forecasts from North American Multi-Model Ensembles (NMME) in order to enable end users to begin using longer lead forecasts in their decision-making (e.g., a Himalayan Streamflow Forecaster web-based application using short- and seasonal forecasts for countries in SERVIR Himalayan region.)
(and beyond): Launch a pilot project for the Magdalena River in Colombia using in-situ observations provided by CIRMAG for the calibration of the Copernicus Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) by the JRC/EU.  The long-term objective of this project is to use near-real-time runoff observations, served through an OGC-Sensor Observation Service (SOS), to bias-correct the GloFAS forecasts.

14. Theme #6 Continued
2017 – 2019 (and beyond): ARSET will provide on-site training in Latin America or elsewhere in water resources management in Spanish or English depending on the audience. ARSET online training will also be available through the program website. Surveys will be used at the completion of each training to assess the value of training to participants, and after 6 months to assess the impact of the training on participant’s decision making activities.
2017 – 2019 (and beyond): The NASA DEVELOP National Program addresses environmental and public policy issues through interdisciplinary research projects that apply Earth observations to community concerns around the globe. DEVELOP will focus projects world-wide with three or more projects per year in non-U.S. Latin American countries in support of the AmeriGEOSS initiative, The goal of these projects is to empower the current and next generation of decision makers in the use of Earth observations to enhance decision making processes.

15. At this meeting we should develop new deliverables for which we are committed to take action. In addition we should reaffirm those existing deliverables we endorse (if they are working well we should adopt them) and identify what steps should be taken for those that are not progressing.
For each of the above activities/deliverables we should have plans that specify:
The person who is leading the production of the product.
Deliverables (D- Discussion Paper; P-plan; I – Implementation; C-completion) and the time when each of these is expected to be achieved.
The steps that will be taken in order to produce the deliverables and how GEOGLOWS will interact with the project.

16. Structure and Chairs of WGs for this GEOGLOWS meeting:
Working Group #1: Socio-economic issues of the water crisis and policy linkages (Rose Alabaster)
Working Group #2: Science, applications, product development and testing (Ashutoth Limaye)
Working Group #3: Essential Water Variables and observations (George Huffman)
Working Group #4: Data dissemination, community portals, capacity building and dissemination (Jim Nelson)