cams users and their requirements snapshot september 2019

Atmosphere Monitoring

T. Popp, F. Schnell, O. Goussev/ DLR

L. Tarrason / NILU

E. Wey, M. Marchand / TSV

A. Stidworthy / CERC

on behalf of CAMS-94, ECMWF and CAMS contractors

CAMS users and their requirements – snapshot September 2019

AtmosphereMonitoring

C A M S u s e r s c o m e f r o m …

• Sciene

– CAMS data to study the atmosphere

• Space agencies

– CAMS NRT data for satellite verification

• Consultancies / citizen services

– Public information apps (e.g. air quality)

– Aviation maintenance support

– Health information (pollen)

• The public

– Media (continuing large interest)

• Public authorities

– Policy management tools

• Strong multiplicator effects of media, apps, …

PASYFO


C A M S u s e r s n e w s a t t h e w e b s i t e

PASYFO

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C A M S u s e c a s e s a t t h e w e b s i t e

PASYFO

…… some apps have several 10.000 to 100.000 users


E v o l u t i o n o f C A M S a c t i v e u s e r s

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global NRT, unique users

global fire, unique users

global reanalysis, unique users

global ECPDS, unique users

radiat. (all-sky), active users

radiat. (clear-sky), active users

regional AQ, unique API users

policy, unique website visitors

emissions, active users

GHG, forcing


E v o l u t i o n o f C A M S r e g i s t e r e d u s e r s

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global NRT

regional AQ

global reanalysis

GHG flux

solar

emissions

GFAS

climate forcings


C o m p a r e C A M S / M A C C r e g i s t e r e d u s e r s

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MACC Q2-2015

CAMS Q2-2019


U s e r s o f C A M S s e r v i c e s Q 2 2 0 1 9


C A M S u s e r c a t e g o r i e s Q 2 2 0 1 9

All CAMS / user categories (1464)

international

public

private

individual

academic / research

unknown

global reanal. / user categories global ECPDS / user categories

GHG + forcing rad all-sky / user categories


C A M S u s e r s c o m e f r o m …

• 113 countries

– almost entire Europe

– large parts of the world (weakest in Africa)

• … different categories

– almost half from academia

– but also substantial parts from private and public sectors

– varying mix between different CAMS service lines

• Overall statistics Q2 2019

– ~392TB downloaded

– ~11900 registered users

– ~2500 active users

– overall steadily increasing

– at time peaks due to events

• Continuous interaction with users

AtmosphereMonitoring • Co-organized with national user community

– Focus on their specific needs– Stimulate exchange between users

• 2 dedicated per annum, 1 at annual assembly

• 2016 user workshops:– Athens (assembly user day)– Brussels (policy)– Riga, Offenbach

• 2017 user workshops– Warsaw (assembly user day)– Utrecht, Madrid

• 2018 user workshops– Copenhagen (policy)– Lisbon (assembly user day)– Zagreb, Stockholm (November)

U s e r w o r k s h o p s


C A M S u s e r e v e n t s i n t h e l a s t y e a r

• User day at the Lisbon assembly 17-10-2018

• User workshop in Zagreb 13-11-2018

• User workshop in Stockholm 26-11-2018

• Policy user worskhop in Warzawa with FAIRMODE 13/14-02-2019

-> new Air Control tool (ACT) training and feedback + questionnaire

• User day at the Budapest assembly 16-09-2019

-> created a new Hungarian CAMS user group

• User workshop in Bucharest 27-11-2019

• User workshop in Dublin xx-11-2019


C A M S u s e r w o r k s h o p i n C r o a t i a

• Co-organised by Ministry of Environment

• followed by a user day for C3S

• 67 participants

• rather new national CAMS user community

• role of CAMS services: concerns about possible duplication of work between the Copernicus services and national meteo / climate services

• new user requirements

– need more information on use of CAMS in the European Air Quality Index

– need to provide IFS meteorological data with the same open policy

– need for emission data in local scale

– need for emission data temporal evolution

• Participants were inspired to begin working with CAMS


C A M S u s e r w o r k s h o p i n S w e d e n

• Co-organised with national EPA and Met service

• experienced national CAMS user community

• 33 participants

• substantial requirements input

• Deposition repeatedly mentioned

• specific issues of Nordic countries discussed

– low pollution / 1-2 km hot spots not well covered by CAMS 10km data

– only few in situ hourly measurement stations (esp. for NO2)

• needs for evolving the national Swedish community in relation to CAMS (e.g. organizing an all-Sweden 1km forecast)


Similar requirement Number repeated

Requirement analysis / status

Provide high spatial resolution AQ data 14 Out of scope due to CAMS mandatePilot National Uptake scheme in preparation

Provide sub-setting / OGC interfaces for download (regional) 14 Regional dataserver, global WebAPI

Accompany atmospheric composition with meteo data 8 Out of scope due to meteorological data policy

Provide products in netCDF format 8 netCDF fromat available

CAMS roadmap / extended documentation 8 Continous website updates with release plans

Extend historic length of global reanalysis 7 Ongoing reanalysis calculations

Provide regions, cities source apportionment 7 Major updates of CAMS policy tools

Provide uncertainties with the data 6 Needs further R&D

User forum 5 Opened end of last week

User survey / online questionnaire 5 Annual surveys by CAMS communication team

Provide interim reanalysis earlier 5 Planned product phased in during CAMS

Provide daily AQ forecasts earlier in the morning 4 Delivery advanced several hours / split timing

Provide multi-annual regional air quality datasets 4 Period covered 2007 - 2016

Provide deposition products 4 Testing is ongoing to establish quality

R e s p o n s e t o m o s t f r e q u e n t r e q u i r m e n t s


P o r t f o l i o c h a n g e s d u e t o r e q u i r e m e n t s


N e w r e q u i r e m e n t s i n Q 2 - 2 0 1 9

No Description1779 add Reykjavik to AQ EPSGrams1818 Develop user guides and training tutorials of all policy user products 1821 Acces to policy products via the CAMS website1824 Information on the use of satellite products1827 Guidelines on the coupling of regional and urban scales 1844 Provide recommendations on use of CAMS background values in urban areas1777 include oxygen consumption in your products (in this case negative emissions)1830 Provide additional Information on the chemical composition in the regional forecasts1774 user request on behalf of ESA regarding some aerosol fields they have requested as input for the Sentinel 4 satellite. 1780 extend global reanalysis into 2018/20191782 Include the shipping sector in CAMS_ACT tool (Air Control toolbox)1785 Include more pollutants in the CAMS_ACT Tool1788 Correct the indicator for ozone in the CAMS_ACT Tool1791 Include percentage reductions in the ACT tool visualization of results1794 Include SA bar charts as visualization of results in the ACT tool1797 Provide recommendations on realistic emission reductions per sector in the ACT tool1800 Introduce Zooming by country in the ACT Tool1803 Consider to have the results from an ensemble of models in the ACT1806 Extend the ACT tool to a climatological approach 1809 Investigate ways to include data assimilation in SR calculations1812 Explain the background and natural contributions in the ACT tool1815 Explain better the limitations of the ACT tool in urban areas1833 Re-consider the design of the ACT Tool for use in urban areas


C A M S u s e r r e q u i r e m e n t s i n t h e d a t a b a s e

409 requirements in the database from

• Implementation group and MACC projects, defining service scope

• CAMS assemblies / user days 2016 + 2017 + 2018 + 2019

• CAMS user workshops (2 per year, across Europe)

• CAMS Policy User Workshops (annual)

• Copernicus User Support Service Desk

• Interaction with CAMS contractors

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requirements in URDB (accum.)

requirements in URDB(accum.)


T a r g e t e d s e r v i c e s o f r e q u i r e m e n t s


R e q u i r e m e n t C l a s s i f i c a t i o n


R e q u i r e m e n t p o t e n t i a l i m p a c t


C o n c l u s i o n

• CAMS is truly driven by user interaction as shown

– By portfolio changes driven by user requirements

• Implementation of service portfolio evolution needs

– Time and efforts

– Thorough analysis of feasibility, priorities

– Thorough testing and continuous user feedback

cams users and their requirements snapshot september 2019

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