Slide 1 Future ECMWF Contributions to GEO Main contributions to GEO offered by ECMWF: -Long-standing...

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GEPW-5, London, February 2011

Future ECMWF Contributions to GEO

Main contributions to GEO offered by ECMWF:

- Long-standing expertise in numerical weather prediction

- Observing System Experiments (OSEs)

- TIGGE

- MACC

- Reanalysis work

Participation:

- Ministerial meetings

- Plenary meetings

- GEO HLWG

- User Interface Committee (UIC)

- Science and Technology Committee (STC)

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Floods in Pakistan

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Contours at 1% levelShaded areas significant at 10% levelensemble size = 51 ,climate size = 90

Verification period: 26-07-2010/TO/01-08-2010Precipitation anomaly

Analysis and ECMWF VarEPS-Monthly Forecasting System

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ANALYSIS

FORECAST 22-07-2010: DAY 5-11 FORECAST 15-07-2010: DAY 12-18

FORECAST 08-07-2010: DAY 19-25 FORECAST 01-07-2010: DAY 26-32

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GMES Atmosphere

Weather services

Atmosphericenvironmental services

Climate forcing by gases and aerosols

Long-range pollutant transport

European air quality

Dust outbreaks

Solar energy

UV radiation

• • • Environmental agencies

provide data & information on

Services related to the chemical and particulate content of the atmosphere

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MACC Daily Service Provision

Air quality

Global Pollution

Aerosol

UV index

Biomass burning

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Implications of coverage differences on trends

ERA sampled to have same coverage as CRUTEM3

ERA-40 for 1973-1988 ERA-Interim from 1989

Full ERA coverage

12months running means

Temperature anomaly (K) relative to 1989-1998, averaged over all land areas

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Reanalyses

provide a complete picture of recent trends example: temperatureDeg C/decade, 1979-2001

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