World Meteorological OrganizationWorking together in weather, climate and water

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Jérôme LafeuilleWMO Space ProgrammeGeneva

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Improving availabilityof & access to satellite

data and products

Strengthening users’ capability to benefit

from satellites

Satellite operators

Users: WMO Members and Programmes

Enhancing the space-based Global Observing System

WMO Space Programme Objectives

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Space-based Global Observing System Schematic

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Challenges and responses (1)Space-based observing system

• Coordinating and optimizing the space-based GOS– Requirements and Gap Analysis – Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS)

• Building up a sustainable climate observing system– Gaps on observation of ECVs require broad collaboration– « Architecture » concept being developed with CEOS, CGMS

• Continuity and upgrade of operational meteorological missions– Radio-occultation, scatterometers, hyperspectral IR LEO & GEO– Higher resolution of GEO and LEO

• Interoperability and consistency of global system– Intercalibration with reference sensors

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LEO-LEO intercalibration

More on: http://gsics.wmo.int

•Routine IR inter-calibration against IASI and AIRS on simultaneous overpass

• VIS and MW calibration under development

GEO versus LEO

Global Space-based Inter-calibration System (GSICS)

NOAA-CMA-CNES-EUMETSAT-IMD-ISRO-JAXA-JMA-KMA-NASA-NIST-USGS-WMO

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ApplicationsProductsFrom Satellite

data

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Challenges and responses (2)Data/products availability and accessibility

• Moving from data to products– Sharing development and validation efforts– Encourage responsibilities for regional/global products– Validated, documented, quality controlled

• Data & products accessibility– Direct Broadcast on agreed standards and frequencies– Integrated dissemination systems (e.g GEONETCast)– Searchable in catalogues (metadata) in WMO Information System

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IGDDS – GEONETCast footprintDVB-S Dissemination of products or data

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Challenges and responses (3)Supporting new missions/priorities

• Emphasis on climate services• Air quality• Volcano ash plume monitoring• Space Weather• ……

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Monitoring volcanic ash plumes

WMO ETR SYMPOSIUM XI, Citeko, Oct 2010

Meteosat-9

ETNA eruption 4-channel MODIS

Courtesy: D. Rosenfeld

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Space Weather

• More vulnerability to Space Weather effects with increased use of satellites and cross-polar flights

• New solar cycle

• Emerging Space Weather operations can benefit from experience of weather community

• 13 countries and 6 international organizations currently participating in this effort with WMO

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Challenges and responses (4)Getting closer to the users

• Regional initiatives– Americas: RA III/ RA IV Satellite Data Requirements Task Team– Africa: RA I EUMETCast Group– Asia: RA II Pilot Project

• Virtual Laboratory for Education and Training– 12 Centres of Excellence world wide

• Regional user conferences– Satellite Direct Readout Conference, GOES Users Conference– Asia-Oceania Meteorological Satellite Conference– EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference

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As a conclusion…

• The Space Programme: a privileged framework for collaboration among satellite operators and user communities

• Improves the benefit to all through sharing best practices

• Relies on WMO Members and their space agencies– Thank NOAA for SDRO : interaction with users is a key for

the success

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