1. GSICS GRWG & GDWG, March 2016, Tsukuba, Japan
SCOPE-CM: IOGEO
GSICS GRWG & GDWG, March 2016, Tsukuba, Japan
Rob Roebeling, Viju John, Tim Hewison, Marie Doutriaux Boucher, and Joerg Schulz

2. SCOPE-CM Introduction 2
We started to explore a closer partnership on climate with NOAA aiming at the development of a joint action plan.
However, we are only at the beginning.
Systematic activities: NOAA CDR Program –SAF Network and CAF
Infrastructure Elements:
Analyse reprocessing environments, develop common requirements baseline for reprocessing and search for optimisation of processing;
Increase commonalities on data archiving, data distribution and data post-processing such as, level-3 on demand, sub-setting in time and space, selection of parameters, etc. – develop and share tools;
Analyse potential for further increase of stewardship level by exchanging raw and derived records to have a third copy; also enables improved distribution.
Sensor Intercalibration
Level 2 and Level 3 data Records
CDR Quality Assessment
Interoperability of CDRs.
Benefits of common actions for international activities would be:
GSICS would fulfil the implementation plan items on climate;
SCOPE-CM could be further developed by becoming the international dominant producer of FCDRs;
The latter also strengthens the link between GSICS and SCOPE-CM;
International reanalysis activities will get a one stop shop for FCDRs from operational sensors;
NOAA/EUM can develop a common approach to answer requests from the CEOS WG Climate;
NOAA/EUM activities in GSICS and SCOPE-CM may appear as “the” science support with high visibility in the new WCRP-WDAC and the WCRP-JSC. 2

3. SCOPE-CM - Introduction
Sustained and Coordinated Processing of Environmental Satellite data for Climate Monitoring
Objective:
To advance on the sustained generation of Climate Data Records (CDRs) from satellite data.
Approach:
elevate the level of scientific and operational “maturity” of the CDRs;
ensure the sustained operation of the CDR generation systems;
foster the collaboration between satellite agencies & research institutions;
answer to priorities identified by the relevant communities, for example: Extend the use of the Global Space-based Inter-Calibration System (GSICS)
Benefits for space agencies:
ensures their role in the field of climate data stewardship;
improves their capacity to deliver data services for Global Climate Services;
improves their capacity to serve the scientific community.

4. System Maturity Matrix - Concept
Is the software robust and maintainable?
What original observations were used in the product?
What is the trueness of the data?
What methods were used to create the product?
Are data well used and user feedbacks taken care of?
Are the data and methods well documented?
Software readiness
Metadata
User documentation
Uncertainty Characterisation
Public Access, Feedback and Update
Usage
Are the codes compliant with standards, stable, portable and reproducible?
Do the metadata meet international standards, and allow provenance tracking?
Are the formal documents and peer-reviewed papers up-to-date and public?
Are the uncertainties assessed systematically in a standard manner?
Are the data, source code, and documents publicly available and regularly updated?
Are the data widely used in the scientific, and decision and policy making communities?

5. System Maturity Matrix – Master Table
SOFTWARE READINESS
METADATA
USER DOCUMENTATION
UNCERTAINTY CHARACTERISATION
PUBLIC ACCESS, FEEDBACK, UPDATE
USAGE 1
Conceptual development
None
Limited scientific description of the methodology available from PI
Restricted availability from PI 2
Research grade code
Research grade
Comprehensive scientific description of the methodology, report on limited validation, and limited product user guide available from PI; paper on methodology is sumitted for peer-review
Standard uncertainty nomenclature is idenitified or defined; limited validation done; limited information on uncertainty available
Data avaliable from PI, feedback through scientific exchange, irregular updates by PI
Research: Benefits for applications identified DSS: Potential benefits identified 3
Research code with partially applied standards; code contains header and comments, and a README file; PI affirms portability, numerical reproducibility and no security problems
Standards defined or identified; sufficient to use and understand the data and extract discovery metadata
Score 2 + paper on methodology published; comprehensive validation report available from PI and a paper on validation is submitted; comprehensive user guide is available from PI; Limited description of operations concept available from PI
Score 2 + standard nomenclature applied; validation extended to full product data coverage, comprehensive information on uncertainty available; methods for automated monitoring defined
Data and documentation publically available from PI, feedback through scientifc exchange, irregular updates by PI
Research: Benefits for applications demonstrated. DSS: Use occuring and benefits emerging 4
Score 3 + draft software installation/user manual available; 3rd party affirms portability and numerical reproducibility; passes data providers security review
Score 3 + standards systematically applied; meets international standards for the data set; enhanced discovery metadata; limited location level metadata
Score 3 + comprehensive scientific description available from data provider; report on inter comparison available from PI; paper on validation published; user guide available from data provider; comprehensive description of operations concept available from PI
Score 3 + procedures to establish SI traceability are defined; (inter)comparison against corresponding CDRs (other methods, models, etc); quantitative estimates of uncertainty provided within the product characterising more or less uncertain data points; automated monitoring partially implemented
Data record and documentation available from data provider and under data provider's version control; Data provider establishes feedback mechanism; regular updates by PI
Score 3 + Research: Citations on product usage in occurring DSS: societal and economical benefits discussed 5
Score 4 + operational code following standards, actions to achieve full compliance are defined; software installation/user manual complete; 3rd party installs the code operationally
Score 4+ fully compliant with standards; complete discovery metadata; complete location level metadata
Score 4 + comprehensive scientific description maintained by data provider; report on data assessment results exists; user guide is regularly updated with updates on product and validation; description on practical implementation is available from data provider
Score 4 + SI traceability partly established; data provider participated in one inter-national data assessment; comprehensive validation of the quantitative uncertainty estimates; automated quality monitoring fully implemented (all production levels)
Score 4 + source code archived by Data Provider; feedback mechanism and international data quality assessment are considered in periodic data record updates by Data Provider
Score 4+ Research: product becomes reference for certain applications DSS: Societal and economic benefits are demonstrated 6
Score 5 + fully compliant with standards; Turnkey System
Score 5 + regularly updated
Score 5 + journal papers on product updates are and more comprehensive validation and validation of quantitative uncertainty estimates are published; operations concept regularly updated
Score 5 + SI traceability established; data provider participated in multiple inter-national data assessment and incorporating feedbacks into the product development cycle; temporal and spatial error covariance quantified; Automated monitoring in place with results fed back to other accessible information, e.g. meta data or documentation
Score 5 + source code available to the public and capability for continuous data provisions established (ICDR)
Score 5 + Research: Product and its applications becomes references in multiple research field DSS: Influence on decision and policy making demonstrated

6. System Maturity Matrix - Sub Matrices Documentation
SOFTWARE
READINESS
METADATA
USER DOCUMENTATION
UNCERTAINTY CHARATERISATION
PUBLIC ACCESS, FEEDBACK, UPDATE
USAGE
Formal description of scientific methodology
Formal Validation Report
Formal Product User Guide
Formal description of operations concept
Limited scientific description of methodology available from PI
None
Comprehensive scientific description available from PI and Journal paper on methodology submitted
Report on limited validation available from PI
Limited product user guide available from PI
Score 2 + Journal paper on methodology published
Report on comprehensive validation available from PI; Paper on product validation submitted
Comprehensive User Guide available from PI
Limited description of operations concept available
Score 3 + Comprehensive scientific description available from Data Provider
Report on inter-comparison to other CDRs, etc. Available from PI and data Provider; Journal paper on product validation published
Score 3 + available from data provider
Comprehensive description of operations concept available
Score 4 + Comprehensive scientific description maintained by data provider
Score 4 + Report on data assessment results exists
Score 4 + regularly updated by data provider with product updates and/or new validation results
Operations concept and description of practical implementation available
Score 5 + Journal papers on product updates published
Score 5+ Journal papers more comprehensive validation, e.g., error covariance, validation of qualitative uncertainty estimates published
Score 5
Score 5 + Operations concept regularly updated      

7. System Maturity Matrix - Sub Matrices Usage
SOFTWARE
READINESS
METADATA
USER DOCUMENTATION
UNCERTAINTY CHARATERISATION
PUBLIC ACCESS, FEEDBACK, UPDATE
USAGE
Research
Decision Support System
None
Benefits for research applications identified
Potential benefits identified
Benefits for research applications demonstrated by publication
Use occurring and benefits emerging
Score 3 + Citations on product usage occurring
Score 3 + societal and economical benefits discussed
Score 4 + product becomes reference for certain applications
Score 4 + societal and economical benefits demonstrated
Score 5 + Product and its applications becomes references in multiple research field
Score 5 + influence on decision (including policy) making demonstrated      

8. Maturing Takes Time!       1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 1
MATURITY
SOFTWARE READINESS
METADATA
USER DOCUMENTATION
UNCERTAINTY CHARATERISATION
PUBLIC ACCESS, FEEDBACK, UPDATE
USAGE 1 2 3 4 5 6
MATURITY
SOFTWARE READINESS
METADATA
USER DOCUMENTATION
UNCERTAINTY CHARATERISATION
PUBLIC ACCESS, FEEDBACK, UPDATE
USAGE 1 2 3 4 5 6
MATURITY
SOFTWARE READINESS
METADATA
USER DOCUMENTATION
UNCERTAINTY CHARATERISATION
PUBLIC ACCESS, FEEDBACK, UPDATE
USAGE 1 2 3 4 5 6
MATURITY
SOFTWARE READINESS
METADATA
USER DOCUMENTATION
UNCERTAINTY CHARATERISATION
PUBLIC ACCESS, FEEDBACK, UPDATE
USAGE 1 2 3 4 5 6
MATURITY
SOFTWARE READINESS
METADATA
USER DOCUMENTATION
UNCERTAINTY CHARATERISATION
PUBLIC ACCESS, FEEDBACK, UPDATE
USAGE 1 2 3 4 5 6
MATURITY
SOFTWARE READINESS
METADATA
USER DOCUMENTATION
UNCERTAINTY CHARATERISATION
PUBLIC ACCESS, FEEDBACK, UPDATE
USAGE 1 2 3 4 5 6      

9. SCM-06 IOGEO* Towards a GEO ring
Fundamental Climate Data Record (FCDR)
of inter-calibrated
Infrared, Water vapour and Visible radiances
European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (Rob Roebeling, Tim Hewison)
Japanese Meteorological Agency (Masaya Takahashi)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Kenneth Knapp, Anand Inamdar)
Deutscher Wetterdienst (Marc Schroeder)
China Meteorological Administration (Peng Zhang, Xiuqing Hu)
Indian Meteorological Department (A.K. Sharma, Ashim Mitra)
Korea Meteorological Administration (Dohyeong Kim, Hyesook Lee)
*Inter-calibration of imager observations from time-series of geostationary satellites (IOGEO)
We started to explore a closer partnership on climate with NOAA aiming at the development of a joint action plan.
However, we are only at the beginning.
Systematic activities: NOAA CDR Program –SAF Network and CAF
Infrastructure Elements:
Analyse reprocessing environments, develop common requirements baseline for reprocessing and search for optimisation of processing;
Increase commonalities on data archiving, data distribution and data post-processing such as, level-3 on demand, sub-setting in time and space, selection of parameters, etc. – develop and share tools;
Analyse potential for further increase of stewardship level by exchanging raw and derived records to have a third copy; also enables improved distribution.
Sensor Intercalibration
Level 2 and Level 3 data Records
CDR Quality Assessment
Interoperability of CDRs.
Benefits of common actions for international activities would be:
GSICS would fulfil the implementation plan items on climate;
SCOPE-CM could be further developed by becoming the international dominant producer of FCDRs;
The latter also strengthens the link between GSICS and SCOPE-CM;
International reanalysis activities will get a one stop shop for FCDRs from operational sensors;
NOAA/EUM can develop a common approach to answer requests from the CEOS WG Climate;
NOAA/EUM activities in GSICS and SCOPE-CM may appear as “the” science support with high visibility in the new WCRP-WDAC and the WCRP-JSC. 9

10. SCM-06 IOGEO - Introduction
Objective:
Re-calibrate and Inter-calibrate Meteosat First Generation (MFG) and Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) IR, WV, and VIS radiances from 1982 till date.
Project Activities:
to share common re-calibration methods between the participating agencies;
to re-calibrate geostationary data from all heritage instruments;
to compare re-calibrated geostationary data in overlap regions;
to prepare an FCDR of re-gridded radiances normalized to a reference instrument;
We started to explore a closer partnership on climate with NOAA aiming at the development of a joint action plan.
However, we are only at the beginning.
Systematic activities: NOAA CDR Program –SAF Network and CAF
Infrastructure Elements:
Analyse reprocessing environments, develop common requirements baseline for reprocessing and search for optimisation of processing;
Increase commonalities on data archiving, data distribution and data post-processing such as, level-3 on demand, sub-setting in time and space, selection of parameters, etc. – develop and share tools;
Analyse potential for further increase of stewardship level by exchanging raw and derived records to have a third copy; also enables improved distribution.
Sensor Intercalibration
Level 2 and Level 3 data Records
CDR Quality Assessment
Interoperability of CDRs.
Benefits of common actions for international activities would be:
GSICS would fulfil the implementation plan items on climate;
SCOPE-CM could be further developed by becoming the international dominant producer of FCDRs;
The latter also strengthens the link between GSICS and SCOPE-CM;
International reanalysis activities will get a one stop shop for FCDRs from operational sensors;
NOAA/EUM can develop a common approach to answer requests from the CEOS WG Climate;
NOAA/EUM activities in GSICS and SCOPE-CM may appear as “the” science support with high visibility in the new WCRP-WDAC and the WCRP-JSC. 10

11. SCM-06 IOGEO - Introduction
(Courtesy Reto Stöckli, CM SAF Meteo-Swiss)
Progress (Status 2015)
Developed GSICS based re-calibration method for the IR and WV channels;
Developed Space Time Angle Matching Procedure (STAMP) to collocate GEO-LEO or LEO-LEO observations [may be made available to IOGEO];
Generated time-series of reference radiances from HIRS/2, IASI and AIRS observations;
Generated HIRS data record in NetCDF format (version 2) [available to IOGEO];
Re-calibration of MFG, FY-2, and GOES time-series of IR and WV radiances;
Initiated a joint GSICS and IOGEO inter-comparison of recalibrated IR/WV radiances;
We started to explore a closer partnership on climate with NOAA aiming at the development of a joint action plan.
However, we are only at the beginning.
Systematic activities: NOAA CDR Program –SAF Network and CAF
Infrastructure Elements:
Analyse reprocessing environments, develop common requirements baseline for reprocessing and search for optimisation of processing;
Increase commonalities on data archiving, data distribution and data post-processing such as, level-3 on demand, sub-setting in time and space, selection of parameters, etc. – develop and share tools;
Analyse potential for further increase of stewardship level by exchanging raw and derived records to have a third copy; also enables improved distribution.
Sensor Intercalibration
Level 2 and Level 3 data Records
CDR Quality Assessment
Interoperability of CDRs.
Benefits of common actions for international activities would be:
GSICS would fulfil the implementation plan items on climate;
SCOPE-CM could be further developed by becoming the international dominant producer of FCDRs;
The latter also strengthens the link between GSICS and SCOPE-CM;
International reanalysis activities will get a one stop shop for FCDRs from operational sensors;
NOAA/EUM can develop a common approach to answer requests from the CEOS WG Climate;
NOAA/EUM activities in GSICS and SCOPE-CM may appear as “the” science support with high visibility in the new WCRP-WDAC and the WCRP-JSC. 11

12. Some Results
We started to explore a closer partnership on climate with NOAA aiming at the development of a joint action plan.
However, we are only at the beginning.
Systematic activities: NOAA CDR Program –SAF Network and CAF
Infrastructure Elements:
Analyse reprocessing environments, develop common requirements baseline for reprocessing and search for optimisation of processing;
Increase commonalities on data archiving, data distribution and data post-processing such as, level-3 on demand, sub-setting in time and space, selection of parameters, etc. – develop and share tools;
Analyse potential for further increase of stewardship level by exchanging raw and derived records to have a third copy; also enables improved distribution.
Sensor Intercalibration
Level 2 and Level 3 data Records
CDR Quality Assessment
Interoperability of CDRs.
Benefits of common actions for international activities would be:
GSICS would fulfil the implementation plan items on climate;
SCOPE-CM could be further developed by becoming the international dominant producer of FCDRs;
The latter also strengthens the link between GSICS and SCOPE-CM;
International reanalysis activities will get a one stop shop for FCDRs from operational sensors;
NOAA/EUM can develop a common approach to answer requests from the CEOS WG Climate;
NOAA/EUM activities in GSICS and SCOPE-CM may appear as “the” science support with high visibility in the new WCRP-WDAC and the WCRP-JSC. 12

13. SCM-06 IOGEO MFG biases relative to reference sounders
Water Vapour
Fig: Time series of Meteosat-7 water vapor biases relative to HIRS/2 from NOAA-14 and AIRS
Infra-Red
Fig: Time series of Meteosat-7 infra-red biases relative to HIRS/2 from NOAA-14 and NOAA-15

14. SCM-06 IOGEO Comparison of operational and re-calibrated radiances
(Courtesy Reto Stöckli, CM SAF Meteo-Swiss)
Substantial Reduction of the biases to 1.2 K for IR and 2.2 K for WV
Note: the effect will likely be bigger for earlier Meteosat satellites
Note: the comparison does not account for differences in Spectral Response
Fig: Scatterplots of relationship between MFG and MSG brightness temperatures Before and After re-calibration corrections for the
Water Vapor channel (left panel) and the Infrared channel (right panel)
These graphs show the impact of the recalibration by checking operational and recalibrated radiances against those inferred from MSG for the Payerne area for the year The plots show that the recalibration reduces the bias with MSG significantly. For the IR channels the difference is now smaller than 1.3 K and for the WV channel the difference is now smaller than 2.2 K. The biases are still relatively large, especially for the WV channel. Part of the observed biases are caused by the fact that for these graphs MeteoSwiss (Reto Stoeckli) did not yet corrected for the differences in Spectral Response between MFG and MSG.

15. SCM-06 IOGEO Preliminary evaluation of re-calibrated time-series
(Courtesy Reto Stöckli, CM SAF Meteo-Swiss)
METEOSAT-2 and METEOSAT-3 Instruments
- Calibration or image issues -
METEOSAT-3 and METEOSAT-7 Instruments
- Very regular and trend-free time-series -
Fig: Time-series of re-calibrated Infrared channel (upper panel) and Water Vapor channel (lower panel) brightness temperatures over a desert site during the period
- Quote Reto Stoeckli -
“I really like the (visual, not statistical) cleanness of the IR BT’s over time. It’s a marvel to look at it.”

16. Joint GSICS and IOGEO inter-comparison re-calibrated IR and WV radiances
We started to explore a closer partnership on climate with NOAA aiming at the development of a joint action plan.
However, we are only at the beginning.
Systematic activities: NOAA CDR Program –SAF Network and CAF
Infrastructure Elements:
Analyse reprocessing environments, develop common requirements baseline for reprocessing and search for optimisation of processing;
Increase commonalities on data archiving, data distribution and data post-processing such as, level-3 on demand, sub-setting in time and space, selection of parameters, etc. – develop and share tools;
Analyse potential for further increase of stewardship level by exchanging raw and derived records to have a third copy; also enables improved distribution.
Sensor Intercalibration
Level 2 and Level 3 data Records
CDR Quality Assessment
Interoperability of CDRs.
Benefits of common actions for international activities would be:
GSICS would fulfil the implementation plan items on climate;
SCOPE-CM could be further developed by becoming the international dominant producer of FCDRs;
The latter also strengthens the link between GSICS and SCOPE-CM;
International reanalysis activities will get a one stop shop for FCDRs from operational sensors;
NOAA/EUM can develop a common approach to answer requests from the CEOS WG Climate;
NOAA/EUM activities in GSICS and SCOPE-CM may appear as “the” science support with high visibility in the new WCRP-WDAC and the WCRP-JSC. 16

17. IOGEO and GSICS inter-comparison - Introduction
Objective
IOGEO and GSICS partners to compare their sensor equivalent radiances* for the water vapor (WV) and infrared (IR) channels on the heritage geostationary satellites.
Method
To collect re-calibrated WV and IR data from all partners for a Common Test Period:
WV and IR channels on COMS, GOES, Feng-Yun, Himawari, Kalpana, METEOSAT
1 March 2014 and 20 March 2014
3 hourly images (00, 03, 06, 09, 12, 15, 18, 21 GMT)
To encourage IOGEO partners to all use HIRS as reference instrument (Eumetsat can provide HIRS record ( ) in standard NetCDF format)
To inter-compare re-calibrated data in overlapping regions;
To compare re-calibrated data against IASI observations;
To compare re-calibrated data against simulated radiances from ECMWF.
Data Exchange
An FTP site has been set up at EUMETSAT where all IOGEO and GSICS partners can upload their test data (details on the next slide)
We started to explore a closer partnership on climate with NOAA aiming at the development of a joint action plan.
However, we are only at the beginning.
Systematic activities: NOAA CDR Program –SAF Network and CAF
Infrastructure Elements:
Analyse reprocessing environments, develop common requirements baseline for reprocessing and search for optimisation of processing;
Increase commonalities on data archiving, data distribution and data post-processing such as, level-3 on demand, sub-setting in time and space, selection of parameters, etc. – develop and share tools;
Analyse potential for further increase of stewardship level by exchanging raw and derived records to have a third copy; also enables improved distribution.
Sensor Intercalibration
Level 2 and Level 3 data Records
CDR Quality Assessment
Interoperability of CDRs.
Benefits of common actions for international activities would be:
GSICS would fulfil the implementation plan items on climate;
SCOPE-CM could be further developed by becoming the international dominant producer of FCDRs;
The latter also strengthens the link between GSICS and SCOPE-CM;
International reanalysis activities will get a one stop shop for FCDRs from operational sensors;
NOAA/EUM can develop a common approach to answer requests from the CEOS WG Climate;
NOAA/EUM activities in GSICS and SCOPE-CM may appear as “the” science support with high visibility in the new WCRP-WDAC and the WCRP-JSC. 17

18. IOGEO and GSICS inter-comparison – FTP site details
Site : ftp.eumetsat.int User accounts : CMA, EUMETSAT, GSICS, IMD, JMA, KMA, NOAA Password : Each user account has a personal password for details mail to Viju John Directories : Each user account has a personal directory with r/w/e permissions Sub Directories : Each personal directory contains the following sub-directories Reference data : IASI and HIRS reference data will be made available on the FTP site Calibrated data : Each user should but their calibrated data in their personal directory
/sec_native
sensor equivalent calibrated data original resolution
/sec_resamp
sensor equivalent calibrated data re-sampled (5x5 km2)
/aux_native
auxiliary data (e.g. geometry data) original resolution
/aux_resamp
auxiliary data (e.g. geometry data) re-sampled (5x5 km2)
We started to explore a closer partnership on climate with NOAA aiming at the development of a joint action plan.
However, we are only at the beginning.
Systematic activities: NOAA CDR Program –SAF Network and CAF
Infrastructure Elements:
Analyse reprocessing environments, develop common requirements baseline for reprocessing and search for optimisation of processing;
Increase commonalities on data archiving, data distribution and data post-processing such as, level-3 on demand, sub-setting in time and space, selection of parameters, etc. – develop and share tools;
Analyse potential for further increase of stewardship level by exchanging raw and derived records to have a third copy; also enables improved distribution.
Sensor Intercalibration
Level 2 and Level 3 data Records
CDR Quality Assessment
Interoperability of CDRs.
Benefits of common actions for international activities would be:
GSICS would fulfil the implementation plan items on climate;
SCOPE-CM could be further developed by becoming the international dominant producer of FCDRs;
The latter also strengthens the link between GSICS and SCOPE-CM;
International reanalysis activities will get a one stop shop for FCDRs from operational sensors;
NOAA/EUM can develop a common approach to answer requests from the CEOS WG Climate;
NOAA/EUM activities in GSICS and SCOPE-CM may appear as “the” science support with high visibility in the new WCRP-WDAC and the WCRP-JSC. 18

19. IOGEO and GSICS inter-comparison – Status Data Uploads
00z
03z
06z
09z
12z
15z
18z
21z
24z 21
GOES-15
135°W 
GOES-13
75°W
Met-10
0°E 
Met-7
57°E
INSAT-3D
82°E 
FY-2D
86°E
FY-2E
105°E
FY-2F
112°E
COMS-1
128°E
MTSAT-2
145°E
 : Ready and uploaded to the common FTP site
 : Ready but not yet uploaded to the common FTP site
 : Not ready but not yet uploaded to the common FTP site
 : Current status needs to be checked

20. Planning
We started to explore a closer partnership on climate with NOAA aiming at the development of a joint action plan.
However, we are only at the beginning.
Systematic activities: NOAA CDR Program –SAF Network and CAF
Infrastructure Elements:
Analyse reprocessing environments, develop common requirements baseline for reprocessing and search for optimisation of processing;
Increase commonalities on data archiving, data distribution and data post-processing such as, level-3 on demand, sub-setting in time and space, selection of parameters, etc. – develop and share tools;
Analyse potential for further increase of stewardship level by exchanging raw and derived records to have a third copy; also enables improved distribution.
Sensor Intercalibration
Level 2 and Level 3 data Records
CDR Quality Assessment
Interoperability of CDRs.
Benefits of common actions for international activities would be:
GSICS would fulfil the implementation plan items on climate;
SCOPE-CM could be further developed by becoming the international dominant producer of FCDRs;
The latter also strengthens the link between GSICS and SCOPE-CM;
International reanalysis activities will get a one stop shop for FCDRs from operational sensors;
NOAA/EUM can develop a common approach to answer requests from the CEOS WG Climate;
NOAA/EUM activities in GSICS and SCOPE-CM may appear as “the” science support with high visibility in the new WCRP-WDAC and the WCRP-JSC. 20

21. SCM-06 IOGEO - Planning
: IR and WV recalibration geostationary satellites:
to inter-compare FCDRs of IR & WV radiances in overlapping regions;
to gather more feedback from beta users;
to generate of IR and WV radiance FCDRs for the GEO satellites;
to assess the VIS inter-calibration methodologies developed by GSICS.
: VIS recalibration geostationary satellites:
to develop a consensus inter-calibration approach for the VIS channels;
to generate of VIS reflected radiance FCDRs for the GEO satellites;
to inter-compare the FCDRs of VIS reflected radiances in overlapping regions;
to gather feedback from beta users.
: Gridded FCDR (GEO ring) of inter-calibrated radiances
to generation a combined product of gridded inter-calibrated radiances that is based on re-calibrated radiances from as many geostationary satellite data as possible.
IR Combined
WV Combined
VIS Combined
We started to explore a closer partnership on climate with NOAA aiming at the development of a joint action plan.
However, we are only at the beginning.
Systematic activities: NOAA CDR Program –SAF Network and CAF
Infrastructure Elements:
Analyse reprocessing environments, develop common requirements baseline for reprocessing and search for optimisation of processing;
Increase commonalities on data archiving, data distribution and data post-processing such as, level-3 on demand, sub-setting in time and space, selection of parameters, etc. – develop and share tools;
Analyse potential for further increase of stewardship level by exchanging raw and derived records to have a third copy; also enables improved distribution.
Sensor Intercalibration
Level 2 and Level 3 data Records
CDR Quality Assessment
Interoperability of CDRs.
Benefits of common actions for international activities would be:
GSICS would fulfil the implementation plan items on climate;
SCOPE-CM could be further developed by becoming the international dominant producer of FCDRs;
The latter also strengthens the link between GSICS and SCOPE-CM;
International reanalysis activities will get a one stop shop for FCDRs from operational sensors;
NOAA/EUM can develop a common approach to answer requests from the CEOS WG Climate;
NOAA/EUM activities in GSICS and SCOPE-CM may appear as “the” science support with high visibility in the new WCRP-WDAC and the WCRP-JSC. 21

22. How good should FCDRs be?
Questions
How good should FCDRs be?