1. Copernicus Programme of the EU Synergies with WMO, RA VI and EUMETNET
ICG WIGOS
18 February 2015
WMO Geneva
Dr. Silvo Žlebir
European Commission – DG GROW
European Environment Agency

2. EU Contribution to GEOSS !
It is about monitoring the environment
Specific onjective was also to set up an independent EO infrastructure (satellite constelation)
Fullfilling different far-reaching objectives… no secret also bringing new jobs and benefits to economy of the EU
Started cca 10 years ago and evolving very much during this time
EU Contribution to GEOSS !

3. Sustainable Information
USERS
Policy makers
Private, commercial
Public
Different Needs
&
&
Examples
Farming
Oil Spills
Air quality
Flood
Surveillance
Ice levels
Information
Services
Atmo-sphere
Emer-gency
Climate Change
Land
Marine
Security
In situ and satellite data NRT or archive…
Analyses, modelling and forecasting
Land: three components (global, paneuropean and local), number of applications like mapping of biodiversity and ecosystems, urban planning, farming (status of vegetation, monitoring and managing drought, soil water index…)
Marine: monitoring, modelling and analyses/forecasting of ocean parameters (waves, currents, salinity, biochemistry, temperature, sea ice etc), monitoring, modelling and forecasting of oil spills etc…
Atmosphere: monitoring, modelling and forecasting of chemical composition of the atmosphere: greenhouse gases, reactive gases and pollutants, analysis, modelling and forecasting of pollution etc…
Emergency: Mapping in cases of emergency situations (natural or man made disasters, e.g. flooding), activated on request, to help Civil protection and other authorities to act properly
Climate Change: will deal with monitoring, analyses and giving access to different ECVs (essential climate variables) and indices in support to climatre change mitigationa and adaptation. To be operational in 2 years from now… WMO and met community can benefit as well…
Security service: Border surveillance, maritime surveillance and support to the EU external actions
Space Infrastructure
In Situ Infrastructure
Sustainable Information
&
OBSERVATION

4. Atmosphere Monitoring Analyses and re-analyses
INTEGRATED
EO Programme
COPERNICUS
6 Services
Land Monitoring
Marine Monitoring
Atmosphere Monitoring
Emergency Management
Climate Change
Security
Sentinels
in-situ
measurements
EU and global sources:
WMO /EUMETNET
EuroGeographics
EuroGOOS
EuroArgo
ICOS
EARLINET …
Contributing
satellite
missions
Analyses and re-analyses
Modeling
Forecasting
Service activations …
EARLINET, the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network, is the first aerosol lidar network
ICOS RI is a European research infrastructure (RI) to provide harmonised high precision data for advanced research on carbon cycle and greenhouse gas budgets and perturbations.
…added-value products

5. REGULATION (EU) No 377/2014
OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 3 April 2014
establishing the Copernicus Programme
and repealing Regulation (EU) No 911/2010
Objectives of the programme
Governance of the programme
Budget for
Space component million €
Service & In-situ component million €
The new Regulation established the Copernicus program and repealled Regulation ((EU) No 911/2010) which set up the European Earth monitoring programme (GMES) and its initial operations (2011 to 2013).
Briefly three slides showing that Copenricus is in an important transition now – firm legal base, sustainable funding, data policy

6. Copernicus in transition
Dedicated infrastructure
EU Operational programme
Initial
Operations
Six operational services
Preparatory
actions
R&D
2004
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2020

7. Sentinels Copernicus Sentinels
Each satellite is technically different to meet the needs of the 6 services
Sentinel 1 – radar imaging
All weather, day/night applications
Sentinel 2 – Optical imaging
Land applications: urban, forest, agriculture,..
Sentinel 3+6 – Ocean and global land monitoring, high precision ocean altimetry
Sentinel 4+5 – Atmosphere composition monitoring, from a geostationary (-4) and a polar orbit (-5)

8. JRC
EEA
JRC
ECMWF
MERCATOR OCEAN
FRONTEX
EMSA
EUSC
ECMWF
EEA

9. Objectives of the data and information policy
Promote the use and sharing of Copernicus data and information
Support the European research, technology and innovation communities
Strengthen Earth observation markets in Europe, in particular the downstream sector, with a view to enabling growth and job creation !!!
GEO Data Policy Compliant !

10. In Situ Meteorological Data Needs of Copernicus Services
Atmosphere Service
air temperature, wind direction, wind speed, precipitation, air pressure, humidity, long wave radiation, shortwave (UV) radiation
Emergency Management Service
precipitation, air temperature, wind direction, wind speed, humidity
Land Monitoring Service
air temperature, water vapour, global solar radiation, infrared radiation, snow
Marine Service
temperature/global ocean, wind information/global ocean
Climate Change Service and Security Service !!
Requirements on:
coverage, timeliness, metrological characteristics, meta data…
Near-real time and/or Archive data (time series)
Basic (substantial) data in some processes, ancillary data in others (validation/verification…)

11. In Situ Hydrological Data Needs of Copernicus Services
Emergency Management Service
river discharges, water levels
Marine Service
water levels
Requirements on:
coverage, timeliness, metrological characteristics, meta data…
Near-realtime and/or Archive data (time series)

12. In Situ Hydro-Meteorological Data Needs of Copernicus Services
Main data sources / data providers :
National (Hydro)Meteorological services
Other (minority) data providers, e.g.:
World Radiation Data Centre
Global Runoff Data Centre …
WRDC under the umbrella of WMO in St. Petersbourg
GRDC under the auspices of WMO in Koblenz

13. Copernicus – WMO / EUMETNET Partnership
Copernicus to benefit from data provision:
WMO - WIGOS, WMO RA VI …
EUMETNET - grouping of 31 European National Meteorological Services
General Agreement in preparation, recognizing:
ECOMET, National data licensing policies
WMO Resolution 40, 1995, 'essential' and 'additional' data…
WMO & Meteorological Community to benefit from:
Copernicus Space Component (Sentinels) and
Services:
Marine, Atmosphere, Climate Change, Emergency Management…
WMO and Met Community benefits
- New satellite observations
Some services products are directly useful for the met community, national met services etc.
Some national met sercvies are also partners in service providers consortia etc (Split marine center…)
- Marine products, Climate change products, emergency and atmosphere…
- WMO to cooperate in the Copernicus User Forum… and to explores other ways
SYNERGIES AND MUTUAL BENEFITS !

14. Thank you
for your attention