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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
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Observation capabilities
Information& capacity building
Access to data and products
EO products & applications
Cross-cutting
WMO Space Programme Activity Areas
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Observation capabilities
Information& capacity building
Access to data and products
EO products & applications
Cross-cutting
WMO Space Programme Activity Areas
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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
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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%)
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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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Observation capabilities
Information& capacity building
Access to data and products
EO products & applications
Cross-cutting
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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Rolling Review of (observation) Requirements
database OSCAR (www.wmo.int/oscar) (2)
• Gap Analysis by function or by variable
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Intercalibration (http://gsics.wmo.int)
GSICS Product Catalogue
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Observation capabilities
Information& capacity building
Access to data and products
EO products & applications
Cross-cutting
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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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Observation capabilities
Information& capacity building
Access to data and products
EO products & applications
Cross-cutting
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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
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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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Observation capabilities
Information& capacity building
Access to data and products
EO products & applications
Cross-cutting
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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)
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Observation capabilities
Information& capacity building
Access to data and products
EO products & applications
Cross-cutting
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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
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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
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