Exeter, 22-25 Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-241 World Meteorological Organization Working together in weather, climate and water WMO Space

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World Meteorological OrganizationWorking together in weather, climate and water

WMO Space Programme Report

12th Asia Pacific Satellite Data Exchange and Utilization meeting24th North America-Europe Data Exchange meeting

Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, 22-25 October 2012

Jérôme LafeuilleWMO Space Programme

WMO Space Programme www.wmo.int/sat

WMO


Observation capabilities

Information& capacity building

Access to data and products

EO products & applications

Cross-cutting

WMO Space Programme Activity Areas






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WMO Space Programme Activity Areas


2012-2015 Strategic Plan Priorities

• Climate : Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS)

• Aviation meteorological services • Capacity building for developing & least developed

countries• Integration of observation/information systems

(WIGOS/WIS)• Disaster risk reduction


The WMO Space Programme OfficeDr Wenjian ZHANGDirector Observing &

Information Systems Dept.

Director Space Programme

Mr Jerome LAFEUILLEChief, Space-based Observing Systems

Dr Stephan BOJINSKIScientific Officer

Satellite Utilization

Mr Nils HETTICHJPO, IT matters

Ms Mireille HERINSecretary (50%)


Recent and upcoming major events

• Commission for Basic Systems (CBS-15) – Jakarta, 10-15 Sept 2012– Fred Branski President, Sue Barrell Vice-Pres.

• Extraordinary Congress on GFCS– 29-31 Oct 2012, Geneva

• CGMS-40– Lugano, Switzerland, 5-8 Nov 2012– High-level priority plan– Linkage with science groups (ITWG, IPWG, IWWG, IROWG)






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Space-based observing systemOverview (Oct 2012)

• 12 operational geostationary satellites • 6 operational sun-synchronous• R&D satellites in polar orbit• Other (inclined) orbits

Recent launches:• Megha-Tropiques (ISRO-CNES)• Suomi-NPP (NOAA)• FY-2F (CMA)• GCOM-W1 (JAXA)• MSG-3 (EUMETSAT)• Metop-B (EUMETSAT)


Space-based observing system Upcoming operational satellite generations / sensors

• GEO– 2013: INSAT-3D– 2014: Himawari/AMI– 2015: FY-4/AGRI– 2016: GOES-R/ABI– 2017: GEO-Kompsat-2A/AHI– 2018: MTG-I/FCI– 2020: MTG-S/IRS

• LEO– JPSS (2016)

CBS-15 Guideline on User Preparation for new op. sat systems• Information, proxy data sets, product pre-development, parallel

operation, guidelines for data access/equipment, training• Establish a User Readiness project

http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/sat/documents/SAT-GEN_CBS-15-GuidelineUserReadiness.pdf


Space-based observing system Facilitating further integration

• Rolling Review of Requirements

• Global planning – CGMS baseline, Manual on the GOS

– Architecture for climate monitoring from space

• GSICS (intercalibration)

• Product quality harmonization

• Data format and metadata standards


Rolling Review of (observation) Requirements database OSCAR (

www.wmo.int/oscar) (1)

References of

> 500 satellites

> 700 instruments with characteristics and indication of relevant variables

http://www.wmo.int/oscar


Rolling Review of (observation) Requirements

database OSCAR (www.wmo.int/oscar) (2)

• Gap Analysis by function or by variable

http://www.wmo.int/oscar


Intercalibration (http://gsics.wmo.int)

GSICS Product Catalogue







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Products and applications

• Best practices on product quality (e.g. « maturity matrix »)– Algorithm validation, documentation, software maintenance,

availability, quality assurance, data stewardship…

• Collaborative product development/generation– SCOPE-Climate Monitoring– SCOPE-Nowcasting and SWFDP– RGB composite imagery – Volcanic ash detection ?

• Important role of international science groups– Sounding (ITWG), Winds (IWWG), Radio-occultation (IROWG),

Precipitation (IPWG)






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Facilitating access to data and products« IGDDS strategy »

• CBS-15 Procedure to define regional data access requirements– RA-I, RA-III/IV, RA-V… (acknowledging NAEDEX/APSDEU for NWP)

• Promote multi-mission DVB-S retransmission services– e.g. EUMETCast, CMACast, with « regional » contents– Issue with coverage of America and Pacific

• Promote Direct Broadcast standards for LEO– CBS-XV recommended X-Band + L-Band for future LEO– Regional ATOVS Retransmission System (RARS) for

near-real time sounding data for NWP

• WIS metadata standards for data discovery and retrieval• « Access Guides » on http://www.wmo.int/sat

– Data Access Guide (will be transferred to OSCAR)– Product Access Guide

http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/sat/product-access-guide_en.php

http://www.wmo.int/sat

http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/sat/product-access-guide_en.php


RARS expansion to advanced soundersWay forward defined at ITSC-18

i. Implement /upgrade for Metop and for NPP receiving stations

ii. Implement adequate servers (computing power at each station)

iii. Install CSPP and AAPP

iv. Organize the telecommunications at the regional level – taking into account station locations, GTS hubs, and bandwidth

– Concentration by FTP and dissemination by xxxCast ?

v. Start with retransmission of Metop/ATOVS products

vi. Define filenames and/or bulletin headers for the new products

vii. Proceed with Metop/IASI and NPP products retransmission– Channel selection and/or Principal Components ?– With/without overlap among stations ?

viii. Inform and seek feedback from NWP community






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Information and capacity building

• Biennial survey on satellite use by WMO Members• www.wmo.int/sat• Regional users’ conferences:

– AOMSUC (Jeju 2012, Melbourne 2013)– EUMETSAT (Sopot 2012, Vienna 2013)– EUMETSAT User Forum in Africa (Addis, 2012)– NOAA (Miami 2011, Maryland 2013)

• Virtual Laboratory (VLab)

http://www.wmo.int/sat






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Other activities: Space Weather

• Involves 19 WMO Members & 7 international organizations

• Observation requirements taken into account in the RRR

• Space Weather warning services to aviationbeing discussed with ICAO

• Space Weather product portal

• Initial training modules


Conclusions: key messages

• CBS recommended review process for sat data access requirements

• CBS recommended user readiness projects for new sat generations

• OSCAR resource now available (Feedback?)

• GSICS resource now available

• RARS / advanced sounders:

– open questions to NAEDEX/APSDEU

• Direct Broadcast dissemination– Frequency & standard issues

• Regional retransmission systems (xxxCast)

– Coverage and content to be further consolidated


Documents

Exeter, 22-25 Oct 2012WMO SP report to APSDEU-12/NAEDEX-241 World Meteorological Organization Working together in weather, climate and water WMO Space