Anthropogenic CO2 monitoring with the European Copernicus mission – continuous operations, product processing and Cal/Val
Ruediger Lang, EUMETSAT, ruediger.lang@eumetsat.int (Presenter)
Erik Andersson, European Commission, DEFIS, erik.andersson@ec.europa.eu
Hartmut Boesch, University of Leicester, hartmut.boesch@le.ac.uk
Bojan Bojkov, EUMETSAT, bojan.bojkov@eumetsat.int
Michael Buchwitz, University of Bremen, Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), buchwitz@uni-bremen.de
David Crisp, JPL/Caltech, david.crisp@jpl.nasa.gov
Mark Drinkwater, European Space Agency, mark.drinkwater@esa.int
Oleg Dubovik, CNRS / University of Lille, oleg.dubovik@univ-lille1.fr
Richard Engelen, ECMWF, richard.engelen@ecmwf.int
Thorsten Fehr, ESA, thorsten.fehr@esa.int
Valerie Fernandez, ESA, valerie.fernandez@esa.int
Denis Jouglet, CNES (France), denis.jouglet@cnes.fr
Gerrit Kuhlmann, Empa, gerrit.kuhlmann@empa.ch
Greet Janssens-Maenhout, European Commission, JRC, greet.maenhout@ec.europa.eu
Julia Marshall, DLR (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt), julia.marshall@dlr.de
Rosemary Munro, EUMETSAT, rosemary.munro@eumetsat.int
Antoine Lacan, EUMETSAT, antoine.lacan@eumetsat.int
Jochen Landgraf, SRON, j.landgraf@sron.nl
Hannakaisa Lindqvist, FMI, hannakaisa.lindqvist@fmi.fi
Armin Loescher, ESA, armin.loescher@esa.int
Giuseppe Longhitano, EUMETSAT, giuseppe.longhitano@eumetsat.int
Yasjka Meijer, ESA, yasjka.meijer@esa.int
Nakajima Masakatsu, JAXA, nakajima.masakatsu@jaxa.jp
Remy Perin, EUMETSAT, remy.perin@eumetsat.int
Bernard Pinty, European Commission, DEFIS, bernard.pinty@gmail.com
Dany Provost, EUMETSAT, dany.provost@eumetsat.int
Cosimo Putigniano, EUMETSAT, cosimo.putigniano@eumetsat.int
Vincenzo Santacesario, EUMETSAT, vincenzo.santacesario@eumetsat.int
Bernd Sierk, ESA, bernd.sierk@esa.int
Pepijn Veefkind, KNMI, pepijn.veefkind@knmi.nl
Hugo Zuncker, European Commission, DEFIS, hugo.zuncker@ec.europa.eu
As part of the European Copernicus Programme, the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA), together with the support of EUMETSAT and ECMWF, are preparing the expansion of the first generation Copernicus Space Component to include measurements for anthropogenic CO2 emission monitoring. The greatest contribution to the increase in atmospheric CO2 comes from emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels and cement production. In support of well-informed policy decisions and for assessing the effectiveness of strategies for CO2 emission reduction, uncertainties associated with current anthropogenic emission estimates at national and regional scales need to be improved.
Through an envisaged Contribution Agreement with the European Union, it is expected that EUMETSAT will be tasked to develop the Ground Segment for a future CO2 Monitoring (CO2M) mission including a Payload Data Ground-Processing Sub-Segment (PDGS), which facilitates the continuous processing, monitoring, validation and, where needed, vicarious calibration of the payload data-products and their operational dissemination to users. EUMETSAT will also undertake the routine operations of the CO2M satellites, while ESA will develop the space-component and its instrument payload, and will perform the satellite in-orbit verification and satellite commissioning activities whilst taking care of the satellite operations during this phase.
This presentation provides an overview of the main logical elements of the CO2M operational processing system currently established as part of EUMETSATs CO2M-PDGS Phase A/B1 activities. In particular we provide an overview of the key parameters and products, which can be expected from CO2M and point to specific challenges for a future operational CO2 monitoring system.
In addition the presentation will detail key-elements of an operational Cal/Val and monitoring environment to be established as part of a future PDGS at EUMETSAT. We will also address some of the challenges for such a continuous monitoring and Cal/Val environment for a future operational European CO2M mission.
Poster: Poster_Lang__38_25.pdf
Presentation Type: Poster
Session: 1.2b Results expected from future missions
Session Date: Monday (6/14) 9:45 AM