1. BNSC’s contribution to the GCOS Job Assessment Forms
Lucie Viciano
ESYS
With QinetiQ
Wednesday 10th May 2006
CEOS-WGISS 21 Budapest
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2. BNSC taking a UK position
Status
Initial assessment is in progress
Discussion/inputs from this meeting
Completion of forms from UK perspective
Assess the responsibilities for actions.
Scoping
BNSC and partners for JAFs (see next slide)
Cross-cutting issues not yet completed from UK.
Status
Initial assessment is in progress
Discussion/inputs from this meeting are encouraged and will be highly useful for…
…the Completion of forms from UK perspective. This will help BNSC coordinate a response to the next GCOS meeting in May 22nd.
Assess the responsibilities for actions.
Scoping
BNSC has 11 partners it represents and this needs to be taken in mind when filling in the JAFs
Cross-cutting issues: I’m here to understand a bit better what the cross-cutting issues may be and see what role BNSC can play in GOCS.
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3. footer Met Office NERC=Natural Environment Research Council
PPARC= Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council
CCLRC= Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils_Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)
OST= Office of Science and Technology
MoD
DTI
DfT
DEFRA=Department for Food and Rural Affairs
FCO=Foreign Commonwealth Office
DfES= Department for Education and Skills
UKISC= UK Industrial Space Committee
EPSRC= Engineering of Physical Sciences and Research Council
HO= Home Office
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4. Issues identified
Focus on issues pertaining to data processing, archiving and interoperability of sensors.
Other issues: dataset continuity, satellite instrument operationalisation…
Main issues for Atmosphere ECVs:
Products are inadequate and need new product generation
data need to be re-processed
Main issues for Oceans ECVs:
Continuity
Main issues for Terrestrial ECVs:
Record continuity
Cal/Val
Product generation, coverage…
Expand on the product inadequacy…
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5. Issues: Atmosphere ECV
Wind
Temp’
Vapour
Cloud
Precip’
ERB
Ozone
Reanalysis
Aerosol
Co2…
Upper wind
Coverage √
Re-processing
Accuracy record
Product inadequacy & developing new/homogenous products/record
Instrument specificity
Cal/Val
Continuity
[A.3.3: Upper-tropospheric humidity] HIRS products are not adequate for trend identification. There needs to be a Product construction effort: These products need to be improved from HIRS onset (1979) as well as the AMSU-B products (1983 onwards).
HIRS= High Resolution Infrared Sounder (NOAA for versions /2, /3, /4 which also will be carried by Metop)
Cloud properties: Current products are not adequate for:
monitoring regional/large-scale spatial structures like ENSO or for model validation
monitoring climate change, as differences in time series from different products and single-product discontinuities have shown.
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6. Issues: Ocean ECV footer Sea ice Sea level SST Ocean colour Sea state
Sea ice
Sea level
SST
Ocean colour
Sea state
Reanalysis
Ocean salinity
Coverage
Re-processing √
Accuracy record
Product inadequacy & developing new/homogenous products/record
√ ?
Instrument specificity (interop')
(√)
Cal/Val
Continuity
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7. Issues: Terrestrial ECV
Lakes
Glaciers…
Snow Cover
Albedo
Land cover
fAPAR
LAI
Biomass
Fire
Soil moisture
Coverage √
(√)
Re-processing
pre-pro'
reanalysis
Accuracy
Record accessibility
Record Continuity/archiving
Product inadequacy & developing new/homogenous products/record
action to improve pd
operationalisation not in place
√, budget constraints
Instrument interop'/Sensor adequacy
Cal/Val
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8. Next steps Prioritising/Discussion of key issues
Review the priority issues in the UK context
Complete the JAFs
Discuss the way forward with BNSC and its partners.
Synthesis
Feedback on the proposed method
ESYS needs to take account of the prioritisation and discussion of the key issues.
Synthesis
Feedback on the proposed method
Who and how are the JAFs going to be integrated. What exactly is wanted?
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9. Thoughts?
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