Third GEO European Projects Workshop

Parallel session: Climate monitoring, including Global Carbon Observation System

Friday 09 October 2009

Istanbul (Turkey)

Participants

Akkoyun Emrah TUBITAK UEKAE

Aytaç Aslı TUBITAK Space

Beer ChristianMax Planck Institute, Germany CARBO-Extreme

Cripe Douglas GEO Secretariat

Facchini Mauro EC GMES

Gaertner Udo DLR, Germany EUGENE

GascardJean Claude

LOCEAN_ IPSL, France DAMOCLES

Guo ChenboUniv. Hamburg, Germany THOR

Gürol Selime TUBITAK Space

Ollier Gilles EC RTD 14

Özsoy Emin METU, IMS My Ocean

Quadfasel DetlefUniv. Hamburg, Germany THOR

Rivier Leonard LSCE, France ICOS-COCOS-MACC

Schindler UweUniv. Bremen, Germany HYPOX

Staudenrausch Helmut DLR, Germany EUGENE

Wahner AndreasFoschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany IAGOS-ERI

The GEO Ministers provide guidance and orientation for the implementation of GEOSS on a regular basis (2005, 2007, 2010)

The Ministers endorsed the 2007 Cape-Town Declaration in which they identified priorities for GEOSS and committed to actions

They resolved to meet again before the end of 2010 to:

1. Review progress

1. Conduct a mid-term assessment

1. Give further guidance on the implementation of GEOSS

2010 GEO Ministerial: background and early steps

Review progress (TF): 1) Ensure a limited number of Showcases are prepared in order to show the Ministers the progress made so far in GEO

2) Ensure that outreach events and communication actions are prepared so that all the actors involved in the GEO implementation have a chance to contribute to the Ministerial

Conduct a mid-term assessment (M&E group):3) To be completed in the context of the GEO M&E framework (specific evaluation group to be created)

Further guidance on the implementation of GEOSS (TF): 4) Ensure a set of actions for the future of GEOSS is proposed to the Ministers that they can endorse on the occasion of the Ministerial

Possible role of the TF

Show the GEOSS added value in specific areas/Biodiversity – GEO-BON, Global Carbon Observing System, Environment and Health, Water….

Should demonstrate that GEO can provide global assessment in key societal benefit areas by aggregating regional/national resources

Will certainly provide an incomplete picture in the different domains but they should at least be convincing enough to show that GEO has the potential to perform such assessments

The showcases should build on the capability of the GCI

Ensure a limited number of Showcases are prepared in order to show the Ministers the progress made so far in GEO:

Climate monitoring, including Global Carbon Observation System:

Climate change is very broad

Political dimension – climate change cross-cutting – Role of Europe GEO for climate changes

Focus on a subset of the Climate Observing System????

Carbon Monitoring…….

Ensure a limited number of Showcases are prepared in order to show the Ministers the progress made so far in GEO:

ICOS network and atmosphericStation, conceptual design

Ecosystem stations Atmospheric stations Ocean ship and stations

The GEMS/MACC CO2 flux inversion system

http://gems.ecmwf.int/

4D-Var analysisOf CO2 concentrations

Optimized CO2 fluxes

Prior informationabout CO2 fluxes

Satellite observations

Of CO2

MOZAIC (1994-2009)

1994-2001: ≈ 18000 flights with O3 & H2O

2002-2008: ≈ 13000 additional flights with CO and NOy

Substance: One component (ICOS etc..) is not enough

ICOS infrastructure + Carboscope (added value several models integrate the data from other regions).

Showcase should include human dimension

What about the ocean component????

JAGOS (recording atmospheric parameter with commercial aircraft)

ICOS (in-situ) + MACC + GOSAT to be integrated (the way forward)

Showcase: Global Carbon Monitoring System

Water should not be forgotten – water scarcity etc….

WATER: water quality, drought, flooding reservoir capacity •Visualisation aspects (water availability/account all around the world) - CSIRO•Interim assessment- show time series – precipitation – ocean is part of the water cycle but were do we stop•Sea-level rise maybe an important issue as well

CEOP-AEGIS could contribute

Other topics: Demonstrator for water System

Should be defined by the TF so that contributors can provide material– What is it a showcase intended for the Ministers?•Short movie – half an hour session – maybe shorter ?•3 min video ?•Cape-town: Probably too long report•Any document to be released before?•Role of Secretariat in preparing the case ?•Timing issue: basically one year left o integrate the components of a Carbon showcase

What is it a showcase for the Ministers?

Ensure that outreach events and communication actions are prepared so that all the actors involved in the GEO implementation have a chance to contribute to the Ministerial:

Too many tasks on-going in GEO: they cannot be shown all to the Ministers through the showcases

The TF should explore ways and means to involve all GEO tasks at the Ministerial (large side event to be organised: exhibition? Conference? Publication?)

In this context the Ministers can also be taken to the exhibition

Outreach events and communication actions

What could be the content of the declaration?

Added value of GEO•Based on the Target document (difficult to select one o two)•Follow-up of the Cape-Town declaration•Carbon trading…..•Transverse areas important but next step of showcases important•Continuity issue

Ensure a set of actions for the future of GEOSS is proposed to the Ministers that they can endorse on the occasion of the Ministerial

Follow-up of Cape Town:

Adopting a process towards the implementation of the GEO data sharing principles ???

Agreeing to sustain operations of the shared architectural GEOSS components and related information infrastructure ???

Beyond Cape Town:

Recognizing better GEOSS as a key initiative for Global Earth Observation

Ensure a set of actions for the future of GEOSS is proposed to the Ministers that they can endorse on the occasion of the Ministerial