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European Plans for Operational Atmospheric Composition Monitoring
Rose Munro (EUMETSAT) Jörg Langen (ESA) Yasjka Meijer (ESA)
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Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
GMES ObjectiveGMES Service DevelopmentGMES Atmosphere ServiceGMES Space Component
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Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
GMES – Global Monitoring for Environment and Security’ (GMES) is a joint initiative of the European Union and the European Space Agency (ESA)
Represents a concerted effort to bring data and information providers together with users
Make environmental and security-related information available to the people who need it through enhanced or new services
European Contribution to the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS)
GMES Objective
“to provide, on a sustained basis, reliable and timely services related to environmental and security issues in support of public policy makers’ needs”
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GMES Service Development
Integrated approach combining models, in-situ, and satellite data
Three fast track services: Emergency Response, Land Monitoring & Marine
Pilot GMES Atmosphere Service under development
Service Implementation Groups advise EC with working groups on
― Scope― Architecture― In-situ component― Space component
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Air Quality monitoring of global and European atmospheric composition and provision of historic
records threshold exceedance warning, development of effective air pollution abatement
integrated global, European & local air quality analysis & forecast traffic regulation, air quality alerts, support to health services, extreme events
Climate Forcing improved and sustained monitoring of the state of the climate system (surface and
upper air meteorology and composition) and its variability rapid response to extreme weather events and natural catastrophes
integrated global, European and regional concentration fields of key greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4 and related tracers) enabling determination of sources and sinks support to emission and sink verification and mitigation policy
Stratospheric Ozone and Solar Radiation improved and sustained monitoring of the current status and trends in stratospheric
ozone depletion and ozone depleting gases routine provision of updated ozone, UV and solar radiation maps and forecasts
GMES Atmosphere Service Components
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Sentinel-1 C-band interferometric radar mission
Sentinel-2 multispectral optical imaging mission
Sentinel-3 altimeter and wide-swath low-medium resolution optical and infrared radiometers
Sentinel-4, -5 two families of atmospheric chemistry monitoring missions, one on geostationary (Sentinel-4) and one on low Earth orbit (Sentinel-5)
Sentinels 4&5 will support the GMES Atmosphere Service
GMES Space Component
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High temporal and spatial resolution space-based measurements of tropospheric (PBL) composition for application to air quality
Climate gases (CO2, CH4 and precursor CO) and aerosol monitoring with sensitivity to the PBL
High vertical resolution measurements in the UT/LS region for ozone and climate applications
Main Gaps in Current / Planned Operational System
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Mission concept for climate protocol monitoring (lower troposphere) and air quality applications
Instrumentation: UV-VIS-NIR-SWIR spectrometer for O3, NO2, SO2, H2CO, CH4, CO, aerosol
thermal IR sounder for O3, CO and CH4 profiles and HNO3 cloud imager
System: Sentinel 4: GEO platform (Europe, reduced set of species)
Sentinel 5: sun-synchronous LEO platform
Note: A Sentinel 5 precursor with a launch date of 2014 is also planned to ensure data continuity and
to support development of operational services
Mission Concepts
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Mission concept for ozone and climate applications in the UTLS
Instrumentation options: either mm-wave (MASTER derivative) or mid-IR (AMIPAS derivative) limb-
sounder
System: sun-synchronous LEO platform
Maturation of application to be pursued. Choice of instrument type open.Mission to be considered after clarification of these points.
Mission Concepts
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Sentinel 4 will be a realised as
― addition of a UVN spectrometer on the EUM MTG-S platforms (~2018)
― utilisation of TIR data from the EUM IR sounder onboard the same platforms and
― utilisation of imager data from the EUM MTG-I platforms (~2015)
Sentinel 5 will consist of
― a UVNS spectrometer embarked on the EUM post-EPS platforms (~2020)
― implementation of the Sentinel 5 IR sounding requirements in addition to meteorological requirements for the EUM post-EPS IR sounder and
― utilisation of EUM post-EPS imager data.
Additionally a UVNS spectrometer (precursor of Sentinel-5) is required in a polar orbit complementary to MetOp, with afternoon equator crossing time
GAS Implementation Group WG 4 Recommendations (Space)
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Future EUMETSAT MissionsMeteosat Third Generation (MTG)Post-EPSRelationship to Sentinels 4&5
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Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) (GEO)
Identification of user requirements supported by a User Consultation Process, also addressing atmospheric chemistry
Based on the assessment of the capabilities of observing techniques there were five candidate observation missions identified for MTG: • High Resolution Fast Imagery (HRFI) mission• Full Disk High Spectral Imagery (FDHSI) mission• Infrared Sounding (IRS) mission• Lightning Imagery (LI) mission• UV-VIS Sounding (UVS) mission
For further information seewww.eumetsat.int Home Main What_We_Do Satellites Future_Satellites Meteosat_Third_Generation
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Post-EPS (EUMETSAT Polar System) (LEO)
Application Expert Groups convened to analyse the needs of EUMETSAT users in the 2020+ timeframe User needs documented in 5 position papers
• Atmospheric Chemistry• Atmospheric Sounding and Wind Profiling• Climate Monitoring• Cloud, Precipitation and Large Scale Land Surface Imaging• Ocean Surface Topography and Imaging
Mission Requirements Document (MRD) includes Infra-Red Sounding, UV-Visible-SWIR, Limb MM-Wave & Infra-Red and 3MI missions
For further information see www.eumetsat.int Home Main What_We_Do Satellites Future_Satellites Post-EPS
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Relation to GMES Sentinels 4&5 – Requirements Analysis
Requirements harmonisation process aimed to achieve convergence between Sentinel 4&5 and MTG and post-EPS requirements level of commonality high
MTG and Sentinel 4 (GEO) For MTG some differences remain between Sentinel -4 UVS and MTG UVS
specifications, most notably related to spatial coverage requirements The MTG Infra-Red Sounder (IRS) primarily targets meteorological applications and the
Sentinel -4 IRS purely atmospheric chemistry applications as a result there are differences in requirements specification
Post-EPS and Sentinel 5 (LEO) High degree of convergence achieved no significant differences remain Current specification assures continuity with EPS. Limb MM-Wave & Infra-Red instruments not currently included in the Sentinel 4&5 MRD IRS requirements for Atmospheric Chemistry in the post-EPS framework have priority
“2” relative to all other candidate Missions for post-EPS
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Relation to GMES Sentinels 4&5 – Schedule
MTG versus Sentinel 4 With the MTG twin-satellite configuration there is now a possibility to
embark a UVS mission similar to the UVS studied during MTG Phase 0 (payload mass ~ 140 kg)
Final decision to embark Sentinel 4 on the MTG sounding satellites has to be taken in late summer 2008 together with the definition of the MTG payload complement
Post-EPS versus Sentinel 5 UVNS mission will be studied in the Sentinel 4&5 context at payload level &
at most only accommodation/system level issues considered in the post-EPS study; the IRS will be studied in the frame of post-EPS
Final decision to embark Sentinel-5 on the Post-EPS has to be taken by end of 2009 (or early 2010) together with the definition of the Post-EPS payload complement.
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Relation to GMES Sentinels 4&5 – Scientific Activities
The ESA scientific study “Observation Techniques and Mission Concepts for Atmospheric Chemistry” (CAMELOT) is currently running in parallel to the Sentinel -4 and -5 industrial studies with the aim of providing further scientific advice and support to the industrial teams on implementation of critical requirements, orbit trade-offs, and other related issues
Additionally, ESA funding available for an air quality impact study and a limb-sounding study
Completed MTG studies also relevant
EUMETSAT can run additional science studies to support the process as necessary
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Sentinel 4Mission ObjectivesSpectral CharacteristicsSpatial Coverage
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Sentinel 4 – Mission Objectives
Sentinel-4 will be focussed on air quality
Main data products O3, NO2, SO2, HCHO and aerosol optical depth
The specific objective is to support air quality monitoring and forecast over Europe with high revisit time (~1 hour) for the period of time between 2017 and 2032
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Sentinel 4 – Spectral Characteristics
Band I D
Spectral range [nm]
Spectral resolution
[nm]
Spectral sampling
ratio
Priority Target Species
GEO-UV 305-400 0.5 3 1 tropospheric ozone, sulphur dioxide, albedo,
f ormaldehyde, aerosol absorption, bromine monoxide, rayleigh scattering (cloud),
GEO-VI S 400-500 0.5 3 1 aerosol, nitrogen dioxide, glyoxal, O2-O2 (cloud)
GEO-NI R 750-775 0.5 or 0.06
3 1
2
O2-A (cloud, aerosol)
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Sentinel 4 – Spatial and Temporal Sampling
Repeat cycle < 1 hour with a goal of 0.5 hr
Spatial sampling distance at 45N, 0E <8km
Spatial Coverage (acquisition is only required in the sunlit part of the orbit whenever the Sun Zenith Angle at the observed spatial sample is <92º and the Observation Zenith Angle is <75º)
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Conclusions
Atmospheric Chemistry requirements are an essential element in the implementation of future European GEO/LEO missions
ESA & EUMETSAT have taken all necessary steps with the EC to ensure accommodation of GMES S4 on MTG, with full support of ESA & EUMETSAT Delegations
MTG Ground Segment will provide all necessary processing elements and data dissemination capabilities
Same approach has been taken for GMES Sentinel 5
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Additional slides …
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Core services Standard operational products and information services providing direct
support to European policy and information on global issues Sustained public funding (EU & Member States) Pilot service “GMES Atmospheric Service (GAS)”: EU FP7 activity “MACC” to
start 2009; negotiation ongoing Precursor / development activities: GEMS (EU FP6 Integrated Project),
PROMOTE (ESA GMES Service Element)
Downstream services Targeted services that address specific user requirements, or trans-national,
national, regional or local problems EU not directly driving the service and not responsible for service requirements Use core service data as input Call to be issued Precursor / development activities: PROMOTE, national developments
GMES Atmosphere Service
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Air quality integrated global and European air quality analysis integrated global and European air quality forecast historic records of Global and European atmospheric composition
Climate forcing improved and sustained monitoring of the state of the climate system (surface and
upper air meteorology and composition) and its variability integrated global, European and regional concentration fields of key greenhouse
gases (CO2, CH4 and related tracers) enabling determination of sources and sinks
Stratospheric ozone and solar radiation improved and sustained monitoring of the current status and trends in stratospheric
ozone depletion and ozone depleting gases routine provision of updated ozone, UV and solar radiation maps and forecasts historic European UV and solar radiation records and mapping
Core Service Components
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Air Quality local air quality forecasts, e.g. as input to traffic regulation Improved air-quality-related alerts and forecasts for health services supporting
vulnerable communities (COPD, asthma, pollen-induced allergies) daily compliance with air-quality legislation (threshold exceedance warning) support to development of effective air pollution abatement measures through
proper apportionment of sources and assessment of impacts (human exposure) etc
forecasts for extreme events involving the combined effects of heat stress, high UV-B exposure and poor air quality
Climate Change information for rapid response to extreme weather events and natural
catastrophes identification, assessment and monitoring of regional/local sources and sinks of
greenhouse gases and pollutants and related tracers in support of emission and sink verification and mitigation policy.
Stratospheric Ozone and Solar Radiation surface UV-radiation monitoring and forecasting personalized skin-type specific UV information
Examples of Downstream Services
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Environmental Themes, Data Usage and Services
Environmental Theme
Data usage
Ozone Layer &Surface UV radiation
Air Quality
Climate
Protocol Monitoring
UNEP Vienna Convention; Montreal and subs. ProtocolsCFC emission verificationStratospheric ozone, halogen and surface UV distribution and trend monitoring
UN/ECE CLRTAP; EMEP / Göteborg Protocol; EC directives EAP / CAFEAQ emission verificationAQ distribution and trend monitoring
UNFCCC Rio Convention; Kyoto Protocol; Climate policy EUGHG and aerosol emission verificationGHG/aerosol distribution and trend monitoring
Near Real Time Services
Stratospheric composition and surface UV forecastNWP assimilation and (re-) analysis
Local Air Quality (BL); Health warnings (BL)Chemical Weather (BL/FT)Aviation routing (UT)
NWP assimilation and (re-) analysisClimate monitoringClimate model validation
Assessment
(lower priority for operational mission)
Long-term global data recordsWMO Ozone assessments Stratospheric chemistry and transport processes;UV radiative transport processesHalogen source attributionUV health & biological effects
Long-term global, regional, and local data recordsUNEP, EEA assessmentsRegional & local boundary layer AQ processes; Tropospheric chemistry and long-range transport processesAQ source attributionAQ Health and safety effects
Long-term global data recordsIPCC assessmentsEarth System, climate, rad. forcing processes; UTLS transport-chemistry processesForcing agents source attributionSocio-economic climate effects
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Ozone Layer & globalSurface UV radiation
threshold : Europe + surrounding areas(e.g. monitoring of EC directives and national AQ legislation, short-term air quality forecast)
Air Quality target : global (monitoring, assessment and forecast of global air quality, the oxidising capacity, and the quantification of continental in/outflow)
Climate global
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Geographical Coverage Requirements
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Consortium
KNMI – lead SRON RAL
Univ. of Leicester FMI BIRA-IASB
IFAC-CNR Noveltis Univ. of Köln
Duration
April 07 – April 09
Camelot Study
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complementation of existing geophysical observation requirements with meteorological and possibly other auxiliary data requirements and delivery time requirements
contributions to trade-offs among different observation principles for several chemical species and parameters
derivation of comprehensive instrument performance requirements from the geophysical observation requirements with previously identified observation principles
quantification of the effects of cloud interference as a function of geophysical and observational parameters
contributions to the trade-off between orbit scenarios
support to parallel Sentinel 4&5 phase 0 and phase A system studies
recommendations for changes and additions to the MRD
Camelot Study - Objectives
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EU documents on GAS• GAS Orientation paper and workshop report, 12/2006• FP7 Cooperation Work Programme Space, 6/2007 • GAS IG WG4 Draft Report and Summary, 3/2008
GAS precursor projects• FP7 Integrated Project GEMS• GMES Service Element PROMOTE
Environment and climate protection protocols• Vienna convention – Montreal protocol, UNFCCC – Kyoto protocol• UNECE – CLRTAP, EU directives
Related work on observation requirements• IGOS-IGACO Theme report• GCOS implementation plan• WCRP-SPARC long-term observation requirements• EU GMES-GATO report• EU FP projects, e.g. Create-Daedalus, Evergreen• Eumetsat user consultation and studies in the frame of MTG / post-EPS• ESA studies on CO2 monitoring• ESA study on atmospheric chemistry observation requirements• ESA study dedicated to S4&5 requirements (“CAPACITY”) incl. user workshop• ESA study on radiance requirements (“CAMELOT”), ongoing
Major Sentinel 4&5 MRD References
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A. Research missions
Envisat, Aura, Odin, Scisat, Mopitt (ongoing)OCO, Gosat (2009)
• Wealth of data for science• Advanced stratospheric component• Pathfinders for tropospheric applications
Main deficiencies: Temporal resolution, horizontal sampling / coverage in nadir Vertical resolution in limb
All expected to stop ≤ 2014, no new plans
Assessment of Existing and Planned Missions (1/4)
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B. Operational missions
MetOp 2006 GOME-2, IASINPP / NPOESS 2009/13 OMPS, CRISMTG 2017 IRSpost-EPS 2019 IRS
OMPS • designed for stratospheric ozone monitoring• considered appropriate for this purpose; OMPS also limb• some contribution to NWP• contributions to tropospheric applications limited, due to insufficient temporal sampling (~ 1/week/geo-location cloud-free) and too coarse horizontal resolution• OMPS not expected to deliver useful tropospheric data (spectral coverage and resolution, SNR)
Assessment of Existing and Planned Missions (2/4)
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B. Operational missions (cont’d)
MetOp 2006 GOME-2, IASINPP / NPOESS 2009/13 OMPS, CRISMTG 2017 IRSpost-EPS 2019 IRS
GOME-2 • target species O3 profile, total column O3, NO2, tropospheric NO2, SO2, HCHO, BrO, aerosol optical depth, clear sky UV index, UV
including clouds and surface albedo … • contributes to NWP• spatial resolution (40 km x 80 km) not optimal for tropospheric applications• near-daily coverage (1920km swath)
Assessment of Existing and Planned Missions (3/4)
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B. Operational missions (cont’d)
Infrared Sounders
IASI:• chemical products: H2O, O3, CH4, N2O, CO, HNO3, SO2
• H2O vertical profiles; some vertical info for tropospheric O3, CO
Post-EPS IRS:• instrument not yet defined (phase 0 starting)• primary Eumetsat objective for IRS is NWP• secondary Eumetsat objective for IRS is air quality / chemistry-climate
interaction (requirements harmonised with S4&5)
CRIS:• met instrument (low spectral resolution) – chemistry limited
MTG IRS:• limited contribution – assessment vis-à-vis S4&5 requirements ongoing
Assessment of existing and planned missions (4/4)
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High temporal and spatial resolution space-based measurements of tropospheric (PBL) composition for application to air quality
Climate gases (CO2, CH4 and precursor CO) and aerosol monitoring with sensitivity to the PBL
High vertical resolution measurements in the UT/LS region for ozone and climate applications
Main Gaps in Current / Planned Operational System
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CO2 mission for Kyoto protocol verification : Severe random and systematic measurement error requirements Uncertainties of inverse modelling (transport PBL – free troposphere) Uncertainties in modelling of natural surface fluxes
CO2 considered immature for operational missionas recognised by
• dedicated ESA study (CNRS-LSCE et al.)• Capacity study consortium• Post-EPS atmospheric chemistry AEG.
CO2 mission on natural surface fluxes First significant results from AIRS and Sciamachy available Dedicated research missions to come (OCO, Gosat) Very demanding spec’s → a mission of its own Advanced mission being investigated in Earth Explorer programme
Carbon Dioxide
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EUMETSAT Objectives & Mission
The primary objective is to establish, maintain and exploit European systems of operational meteorological satellites.
A further objective is to contribute to the operational monitoring of the climate as well as the detection of global climatic changes.
Furthermore, environmental issues which drive or are driven by meteorological conditions are considered.
Objectives:
To deliver operational satellite data and products that satisfy the meteorological and climate data requirements of its Member States - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, through decades.
This is carried out according to the recommendations of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Mission:
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The EUMETSAT Application Ground Segment
EUM GeostationarySystems
Systems of theEUM/NOAA Cooperation
Centralised processingand generation of products Decentralised processing
and generation of products
Data Acquisitionand Control
Data ProcessingEUMETSAT HQ
Meteorological ProductsExtraction
EUMETSAT HQ
Archive & RetrievalFacility (U-MARF)EUMETSAT HQ
Satellite ApplicationFacilities (SAFs)
USERS
Application Ground Segment
other data sources
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EUMETSAT Space Segment Overview
GMES Sentinel 5
96 98 00 02 0497 99 01 03 05 06 08 10 12 1407 09 11 13 15 1716 18
OSTMJason-2
Jason-3
IODC (63° E)
Rapid Scanning (10° E)
Primary Service (0° E) IODC (57.5° E)
3.4° W
0°
Meteosat First Generation
Meteosat-5
Meteosat-6
Meteosat-7
MSGMeteosat-8
Meteosat-9
Meteosat-10
Meteosat-11
MTG
EPSMetOp-A
MetOp-B
MetOp-C
Post-EPS
IODC Backup (67.5° E)
GMES Sentinel 3
GMES Sentinel 4
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Meteosat Third Generation (MTG)
The UVS mission was studied at instrument level only (not at system level) during pre-Phase A activities but not studied further
Decision endorsed by Council, however, Council also tasked EUM to coordinate with ESA for Implementation of the UVS within GMES, preserving the role of EUM as Operator. This is reflected in the agreed approach for MTG for the ESA C-MIN-08.
Twin satellite configuration also endorsed by EUMETSAT council with the second platform the MTG-S carrying the IRS
With this, a UVS Mission (as Sentinel 4) shall be accommodated within the design margins offered by the MTG Sounding Satellites
The IRS primarily targets meteorological applications but is also expected to provide information on O3 and CO.
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Relation to GMES Sentinels 4&5 – Context
Following decisions taken at the 60th EUMETSAT Council (December 2006)
― It is recognised that MTG and post-EPS atmospheric chemistry requirements shall be implemented in the context of GMES
― "According to current plans Sentinels-4 and -5 will be implemented as additional payloads on the Eumetsat MTG and post-EPS missions, and will be operated by Eumetsat as part of the overall MTG and post-EPS management procedures.“
Similar decisions taken at ESA PBEO in September 2006
“ESA-EUMETSAT Working Assumptions on GMES Sentinels-4 and -5” finalised for presentation to EUMETSAT Council and ESA PB-EO by end of 2007, confirmed in 2008 and in use for preparation of C-MIN-08.
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Post EPS Atmospheric Chemistry Mission:Approach to Generating Requirements
Generated by a dedicated Application Expert Group (AEG)
Heritage― Integrated Global Atmospheric Chemistry Observations (IGACO) Report from
the IGOS Atmospheric Chemistry Theme Partners ― ESA commissioned CAPACITY study to define the Geophysical Data
Requirements for an Operational Atmospheric Chemistry Monitoring Mission
Requirements specified for satellite observations only
Prioritisation per application remaining aware of observing feasibility
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Post-EPS Atmospheric Chemistry Mission: User Data Requirements Tables
Ozone & Surface UV ― Priority 1 (protocol/forecast): O3 stratosphere/UT profile & column― Priority 2 (assessment): stratospheric ClO, BrO, HNO3
& aerosol (heterogeneous chemistry)
Composition – Climate Interaction― Priority 1: O3 & H2O profiles; trop CH4 (emissions)― Priority 2: CO2 (emissions); trop CO & NO2 (chemistry);
stratospheric N2O/CH4 (circulation); AOD & cirrus
Pollution & Air Quality― Priority 1 (regulation/AQ index) O3, NO2, CO, SO2, AOD ― Priority 2 (forecast): H2O, H2CO, aerosol type
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Post-EPS Atmospheric Chemistry Candidate Missions
Considering data reqs for the three applications and drawing on the extensive assessment of observing techniques for CAPACITY, four main candidate missions proposed for atmospheric chemistry applications
Nadir-viewing uv-swir and ir spectrometers complementary in (a) near-surface sensitivity and (b) detectable constituents
― Requirements for near-surface observations of trace gases and aerosol addressed by this combination
Limb-viewing mm-wave and IR spectrometers complementary in (a) cirrus sensitivity and (b) detectable constituents
― Requirements for vertical profiling addressed optimally by combination of limb- and nadir-sounding
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Overall Status
Phase A
EUMETSAT roadmap
20092008 20112007
Phase B Start Phase C/D
2012 20132010
ESA roadmap
20092008 2011
2007
2012 20132010Council Approved the
MTG PP
Council Full Programme
Approval
ESA C-MIN NOV. 2008
Approval full Programme
Go-ahead for Phase B
PCR
PRR
Phase APreparatoryProgramme
PRRPCR
Council 9 Oct. MTG Payload Complement
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GAS WG 4 recommends that: 1. Use of existing data dissemination
infrastructure, such as EUMETCast and GEONETCast, should be encouraged, especially for GAS near real time applications
2. Existing assets such as the Climate Monitoring and Ozone / Atmospheric Chemistry SAFs established by EUMETSAT contribute to the GAS provision as needed.
Recommendations for Use of Existing Infrastructure & Assets