1. M. De Mazière NDACC SC 2011, Nov. 11, 2011 NORS Demonstration Network Of ground-based Remote Sensing observations in support of the GMES Atmospheric Service

2. M. De Mazière NDACC SC 2011, Nov. 11, 2011 Context (1/3) European Initiative Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES)  6 thematic areas - atmosphere - land - ocean - security - emergencies - climate Supported by ESA and EU since early 2000 as European contribution to GEOSS In NORS: Focus on GAS = GMES Atmospheric Service

3. M. De Mazière NDACC SC 2011, Nov. 11, 2011 Context (2/3) A number of ESA and EU projects have been funded in preparation of the operational GMES Atmosphere Service (GAS):  PROMOTE  www.gse-promote.org/ until end 2009  GEMS  gems.ecmwf.int/ until end of May 2009  MACC  www.gmes-atmosphere.eu/ These projects have developed comprehensive data analysis and modeling systems for monitoring the global distributions of atmospheric constituents important for climate, air quality (including aerosol) ozone and UV radiation, with a focus on Europe. In particular MACC, Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate, is the current pre-operational atmospheric service of the European GMES programme. MACC provides data records on atmospheric composition for recent years, data for monitoring present conditions and forecasts of the distribution of key constituents for a few days ahead. MACC combines state-of-the-art atmospheric modelling with Earth observation data to provide information services covering European Air Quality, Global Atmospheric Composition, Climate, and UV and Solar Energy.

4. M. De Mazière NDACC SC 2011, Nov. 11, 2011 Context (3/3) Actual weakness of MACC: Poor validation of the services, (almost) no use in MACC of ground-based remote sensing data for validation EU FP7 call in Nov. 2010 asking for Continuation of prototype Service  MACC-II R&D projects for improving GAS in the future  NORS Overall Objective: Perform the required research and developments to optimize the NDACC data and data products for the purpose of supporting the quality assessments of the future GAS.

5. M. De Mazière NDACC SC 2011, Nov. 11, 2011 Status Submitted in Nov. 2010 Passed evaluation and negotiation Start Nov. 1, 2011 Duration: 33 months KO meeting, Brussels, Dec. 14, 2011

6. M. De Mazière NDACC SC 2011, Nov. 11, 2011 General Objectives Perform the required research and developments to optimize the NDACC data and data products for the purpose of supporting the quality assessments of the future GAS. target NORS data products tropospheric and stratospheric ozone columns and vertical profiles up to 70 km altitude; tropospheric and stratospheric NO2 columns and profiles; lower tropospheric profiles of NO2, HCHO, aerosol extinction; tropospheric and stratospheric columns of CO tropospheric and stratospheric columns of CH4 4 NDACC techniques: Lidar, MW, FTIR, UV-VIS DOAS 4 NDACC pilot stations

7. M. De Mazière NDACC SC 2011, Nov. 11, 2011 NORS pilot stations 3 out of 4 are also TCCON sites

8. M. De Mazière NDACC SC 2011, Nov. 11, 2011 to implement procedures for operational data delivery of NDACC data to GAS actors with a delay of maximum 1 month; to provide an extensive characterisation of targeted NDACC data and user documentation. The NDACC data will also be evaluated in comparison with satellite data that are assimilated in the GAS products, and against other network data like Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) surface data and the Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) data, in a comprehensive and coordinated way; to investigate the integration of ground-based data products from various sources (ground-based in-situ surface and remote- sensing data, and satellite data), and to provide the integrated data products to GAS. Hereto, new scientific methodologies will be developed. Objectives (1/2)

9. M. De Mazière NDACC SC 2011, Nov. 11, 2011 Objectives (2/2) to provide ground-based measurement time series back to 2003 in support of the re-analysis products of GAS. NORS will provide and archive quality-controlled long-term reference data sets for open access by GAS and GMES users, a need expressed in the GAS Implementation Group Final Report. to develop and implement a new GAS-compliant web-based application for operational validation of GAS products using the NORS data products. In this validation service, better methodologies for validation will be included, based on the improved characterisation of the ground-based data. This service (based on GECA) will be user-oriented. Capacity building: To ‘export’ project achievements to whole NDACC community to support the extension of NDACC to stations outside Western Europe, namely in the tropics, in China, Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe.

10. M. De Mazière NDACC SC 2011, Nov. 11, 2011 Overall strategy of the workplan

11. M. De Mazière NDACC SC 2011, Nov. 11, 2011 Connections with GAS, ESA, NDACC, WMO The planned composition of the Steering Committee is as follows: the Project Management Team (coordinator and WP leaders); representatives of MACC (GAS) a representative of ESA for the GECA environment (T. Fehr); a representative of EEA for the coordination of the in-situ component in the GMES Atmosphere area; G. Braathen (WMO), as co-chairman for NDACC; O. Tarasova, responsible at WMO for matters related to Greenhouse gases, Reactive gases, GAW stations and QA/QC; J.C. Lambert, as representative of CEOS WGCV ---------------------- The Project Management Team (PMT) will consist of the coordinator and the WP leaders. They are part of the Steering Committee (SC) which includes additional members who are not involved in the project, but who have strong links to the project because of their role in GMES or in NDACC.

12. M. De Mazière NDACC SC 2011, Nov. 11, 2011 Connection to NDACC Connection to NDACC is important ! Via role of partners in the NDACC organisation WG co-chairmen SC members Use of NDACC DHF for submission of rapid delivery data in GEOMS HDF format to be agreed

13. M. De Mazière NDACC SC 2011, Nov. 11, 2011 Partners

14. M. De Mazière NDACC SC 2011, Nov. 11, 2011

15. WP4100: Validation and integration of tropospheric composition measurements (in-situ and remote-sensing measurements) WP4200: integrated O3 vertical profiles

16. M. De Mazière NDACC SC 2011, Nov. 11, 2011 Extension beyond W-Europe ObservatoryCountryInstrumentNORS partner involved Local partner Xianghe Integrated Observatory ChinaMAXDOASBIRA-IASBInstitute for Atmospheric Physics / Chinese Academy of Sciences BeijingChinaMini-MAXDOASMPICChinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences KourovkaRussiaFTIRUBremenUniv. of Yekaterinburg TomskRussiaFTIRKITZuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics ParamariboSurinameFTIRUBremenAnton de Kom University ParamariboSurinameMAXDOASUHMeteorological Service of Suriname Mexico CityMexicoFTIRKITUNAM Rio GallegosArgentina O 3 Lidar CNRSCEILAP-CONICET BujumburaBurundiMAXDOASBIRA-IASBUniv. of Bujumbura Addis AbabaEthiopiaFTIRKITAddis Ababa University BelgranoAntarcticaMAXDOASINTAInstituto Antártico Argentino (IAA)