• A component of Europe’s Global Monitoringfor Environment and Security initiative

– which also provides services for land and ocean

– will move from research to operational funding 2011-2014

• The atmospheric programme comprises

– developing operational space-based observation of constituents

– strengthening the provision of complementary in-situ observations

– developing and operating associated data and information services

• A 48-partner EC-funded project called MACC

– provides pilot core monitoring services

– will support downstream services for specific sectors

– is coordinated by ECMWF

GMES atmospheric environmental services

The GMES Sentinel satellite missions/instruments

Sentinel 1 Land and ocean Launches from 2011

Sentinel 2 Land Launches from 2012

Sentinel 3 Land, ocean and some atmosphere Launches from 2013

Sentinel 5 precursor

Atmosphere(UV/VIS/NIR/SWIR - Polar) Launch 2014

Sentinel 4on MTG-S

Atmosphere(UV/VIS/NIR - Geostationary) Launches from 2017

Sentinel 5on post-EPS

Atmosphere(UV/VIS/NIR/SWIR - Polar) Launches from 2020

• Atmosphere, ocean and land services each have someclimate-service components

• A regulation for initial operational services (2011-2013) is going through European Parliament/Council procedures

• Regulation includes provision for a climate-change monitoring service in addition to the atmosphere, ocean and land services

• Climate service may

– include the climate elements provided by the atmosphere, ocean and land services

– include additional elements, among them global and regional reanalysis

• Full operational range of services expected from 2014

Range of GMES services

GMES atmospheric environmental services

Services related to the chemical and particulate content of the atmosphere

Based on global and regional processing, adapting the data assimilation and forecasting approaches of numerical weather prediction

Includes:

Near-real-time global and regional production streams

Delayed-mode global stream (~six months lag)

Global reanalysis for past decade (with regional air-quality assessments)

Structure of atmospheric service

www.gmes-atmosphere.eu

From retrospective analysis for 2003 - 2009Total column carbon monoxideAerosol optical depth at 550nm

July 2003

July 2004

July 2005

July 2006

July 2007

Real-time aerosol forecasts

MACC dust aerosol optical depth

Dust aerosol optical depth

Jeff Schmaltz, NASA

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