COordinating earth observation data validation for RE-analysis for CLIMAte ServiceS:

CORE-CLIMAX

Bob Su, Wim Timmermans, Bert Boer, Joris Timmermans, Yijian Zeng

Presented by Yijian Zeng on behalf of ITC team

CoreClimax: Presentation overview

Project overview (1) Consortium (2) Project objectives (3) Project teams (3) Coordination of high-quality research (3) Coordination mechanisms & workplan (6) Future R&D needs – consistency of ECVs: Examples (13) Future R&D needs – Our response (1) References / Further reading (1)

CoreClimax: Project overview

EU FP7 Project acronym: CORE-CLIMAX

Coordinating Earth observation data validation for RE-analysis for CLIMAte ServiceS

Project coordinator: Professor Bob Su, z.su@utwente.nl

Project manager (technical matters): ir. Wim Timmermans

Project manager (financial/legal/administrative matters): ir. Bert Boer

Department of Water Resources, ITC, University of Twente, The Netherlands

EU Contribution: 1,997,635 Euro

Project duration: 30 months

Start: 1st January 2013

9 Partners, 21.5 Person Years, 27 Deliverables

CoreClimax: Consortium

no. Participant organization name Country

1. University of Twente, Faculty for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)

The Netherlands

2. European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)

International

3.European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)

International

4. German Weather Service (DWD) Germany

5.Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO)

Belgium

6. Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) Finland

7. Meteo-France (MTF) France

8.Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP)

China

9.Chinese Academy of Sciences, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute (CAREERI)

China

Satellite data provider and producer

ECV producers and climate service providers

Reanalysis Center in Europe

Satellite data processing and validation centers

CoreClimax: Consortium

CoreClimax: Project objectives

1. Coordinate with Copernicus ongoing activities and contribute to the

formulation of the Copernicus climate service theme (GCOS, FP7 Copernicus and

climate change projects, ESA CCI projects, EUMETSAT including its SAF network

and EUMETNET as part of the European Meteorological Infrastructure)

2. Propose a structured process for delivering ECVs through the stepped and

quality controlled elaboration of Climate Data Records (CDR), the latter being

derived from prioritisation of the most appropriate input data sets;

3. Propose a validation process aiming at qualifying the accuracy of the climate

variables;

4. Propose a feedback mechanism ensuring that the results of the re-analysis

process get appropriately reflected into updates of the CDR;

5. Propose a process to compare reanalyses.

This project will help to substantiate how Copernicus observations and products can contribute to climate change analyses, by establishing the extent to which Copernicus observations complement existing Climate Data Records

CoreClimax: Project objectives

CORE-CLIMAX as European contribution to international efforts in coordinating ECV generation & use in reanalyses

CoreClimax: Project objectives

CoreClimax: Project Team

Objective 1

Objective 2Objective 1 Objective 3 Objective 4 Objective 5

Coordinated with CEOS WGCV

CoreClimax: Project Team

ITC: Bob Su, Wim Timmermans, Joris Timmermans, Yijian Zeng, Bert Boer

EUMETSAT: Jörg Schulz, Rob Roebeling

ECMWF: Paul Poli, David Tan

DWD: Frank Kaspar, Andrea Kaiser-Weiss

VITO: Else Swinnen, Carolien Tote, Lieven Bydekerke

FMI: Hilppa Gregow, Terhikki Manninen, Ali Nadir Arslan

MTF: Jean-Christophe Calvet

ITP: Yaoming Ma

CAREERI: Wen Jun, Cai Ying, Gao Xiaoqing, Lu Shihua, Wei Zhigang, Hu

Zeyong,Gao Yanhong

CoreClimax: Project Team

Research Executive Agency (REA), Project Officer (“PO”):

Stijn Vermoote

Advisory Board (“AB”) Members:

John Bates (NOAA/NCDC, ECVs generation process & maturity index)

Michael Bosilovich (NASA, reanalysis)

Mark Dowell (JRC, ECVs & climate service policy requests, CEOS WG Climate)

Andre Jol (EEA)

Steve Noyes (EUMETNET)

Velina Pendolovska (Policy Officer at DG CLIMA)

CoreClimax: Coordination of high-quality research

Flow chard of creating and maintaining Long-term Climate Data Records:

A TCDR (Thematic CDR) may only be considered as a CDR upon the validation

process given by A34, which may form just one component of an ECV

Maturity Index (Bates-Barkstrom)

CoreClimax: Future R&D needs – Consistency of ECVs

Examples from current projects:

Ex. 1: Product and information exchange procedures – ESA WACMOS project

Ex. 2: Ability of the ECMWF model in soil moisture simulation over the Third Pole

Ex. 3: Closing the global water cycle with earth observation

Ex. 4: Climate change impacts and adaptation in river basins

CoreClimax: Future R&D needs – Consistency of ECVs

Ex. 1: Product and information exchange procedures – ESA WACMOS project

(Water Cycle Multimission

Observation Strategy - WACMOS)

CoreClimax: Future R&D needs – Consistency of ECVs

Ex. 1: Product and information exchange procedures – ESA WACMOS project

(30+ years of passive and active satellite microwave observations for soil

moisture)

CoreClimax: Future R&D needs – Consistency of ECVs

Ex. 1: Product and information exchange procedures – ESA WACMOS project

(WASMOS soil moisture at Maqu site. Su, et.al., 2011)

CoreClimax: Future R&D needs – Consistency of ECVs

Ex. 2: Ability of the ECMWF 1 model in soil moisture simulation over the Third Pole

(How good is soil moisture analysis/assimilation? Su & de Rosnay,

et.al., 2013)

CoreClimax: Future R&D needs – Consistency of ECVs

Ex. 2: Ability of the ECMWF 1 model in soil moisture simulation over the Third Pole

(How good is soil temperature analysis/assimilation? Su & de Rosnay,

et.al., 2013)

CoreClimax: Future R&D needs – Consistency of ECVs

Afternoon rain more likely over drier soils

Christopher M. Taylor, Richard A. M. de Jeu, Françoise Guichard, Phil P. Harris & Wouter A. Dorigo

Nature 489, 423–426 (20 September 2012) 

Ex. 3: Closing the global water cycle with earth observation

(Total Precipitable Water & Soil Moisture)

CoreClimax: Future R&D needs – Consistency of ECVs

Ex. 4: Climate change impacts and adaptation in river basins

(Basin overview)

CoreClimax: Future R&D needs – Consistency of ECVs

Ex. 4: Climate change impacts and adaptation in river basins

(Yellow river basin Total Water Storage from

different sources)

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FY-SMC = Chinese Meteorological Administration – Soil Moisture Content

Which source of data you should trust?

GLDAS_TWSC1 = Soil Moisture +Snow Water Equivalent+Canopy Water Storage

CoreClimax: Future R&D needs – Consistency of ECVs

Ex. 4: Climate change impacts and adaptation in river basins

(Yellow river basin Total Water Storage from

different sources)Upper basin

Entire basin

TWSC3 = TRMM_PC – GLDAS_ETC – In-situ_ RC (anomaly of total water storage change)

GLDAS_TWSC2 = P - ET - R (Anomaly)

How make the data from different sources consistent?

CoreClimax: Future R&D needs – Consistency of ECVs

Ex. 4: Climate change impacts and adaptation in river basins

(Yellow river basin Cumulative Total Water Storage change from

different sources)

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FY-SMC = Chinese Meteorological Administration – Soil Moisture Content

Scale-induced inconsistency

CoreClimax: Future R&D needs – Consistency of ECVs

Ex. 4: Climate change impacts and adaptation in river basins

(Cumulative discharge anomalies at Lanzhou station (circles) and GLDAS/GRACE TWS

estimates)

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Heterogeneity-derived inconsistency

CoreClimax: Future R&D needs – Our response

Global Framework of Climate Services

A schematic representation of the pillars of the Framework, with the indication that the Capacity Development

component encompasses the other components. Arrows depict flows of information and feedback.

Our response

FP7 CORE-CLIMAX:

“Coordinating Earth observation data validation for RE-analysis for CLIMAte ServiceS”

WMO 2011 high-level taskforce report

CoreClimax: References / Further reading

Su, Z., Wen, J., Dente, L., van der Velde, R., Wang, L., Ma, Y., Yang, K., and Hu, Z. 2011, The Tibetan Plateau observatory of plateau scale soil moisture and soil temperature (Tibet-Obs) for quantifying uncertainties in coarse resolution satellite and model products, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 15, 2303–2316, 2011, www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/15/2303/2011/, doi:10.5194/hess-15-2303-2011.

Dente, L., Vekerdy, Z., Wen, J. and Su, Z., 2012, Maqu network for validation of satellite - derived soil moisture products. Int. J. Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation : JAG, 17 (2012) pp. 55-65.

Dente, L., Su, Z. and Wen, J., 2012, Validation of SMOS soil moisture products over the Maqu and Twente regions. Sensors, 12, 9965-9986.

Su, Z., P. de Rosnay, J. Wen, L. Wang, Y. Zeng, 2013, Ability of the ECMWF 1 model in simulating and analysis of root zone soil moisture on the Tibetan plateau , JGR (in revision)

van der Velde, R., Z. Su, and Y. Ma,  2008,  Impact of soil moisture dynamics on ASAR signatures and its spatial variability observed over the Tibetan plateau. Sensors, 8(9),5479-5491.

van der Velde, R., Z. Su, 2009, Dynamics in land surface conditions on the Tibetan Plateau observed by ASAR, Hydrol. Sci. j., 54(6), 1079-1093.

van der Velde, R., Z. Su, M. Ek, M. Rodell, and Y. Ma, 2009, Influence of thermodynamic soil and vegetation parameterizations on the simulation of soil temperature states and surface fluxes by the Noah LSm over a Tibetan plateau site, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 13, 759-777.

van der Velde, R., Salama, M.S., van Helvoirt, M.D. and Su, Z. (2012) Decomposition of uncertainties between coarse MM5 - Noah - Simulated and fine ASAR - retrieved soil moisture over Central Tibet. J. hydrometeorol., 13 (6), 1925-1938.

van der Velde, R., Su, Z., van Oevelen, P., Wen, J., Ma, Y. and Salama, M.S. (2012) Soil moisture mapping over the central part of the Tibetan Plateau using a series of ASAR WS images. Remote sens. Environ., 120,175-187.

Thank you for you attentions!

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