EUMETSAT EXPERIENCES IN RESPONDING TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF OPERATIONAL USERS

Outlook What is EUMETSAT How does EUMETSAT work Building capacity for a better utilisation of satellite data Example working with the marine forecasters community: alignments and synergies with current esurge project activities How does the esurge community see the evolution of the demonstrational service established via the esurge project into an operational service and how to carry over the legacy of the esurge project 2 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015

EUMETSAT as an Intergovernmental Organisation Member States Cooperating States AUSTRIA BELGIUM BULGARIA CROATIA SERBIA CZECH REPUBLIC DENMARK ESTONIA FINLAND FRANCE GERMANY GREECE HUNGARY ICELAND IRELAND ITALY LATVIA LITHUANIA LUXEMBOURG THE NETHERLANDS NORWAY POLAND PORTUGAL ROMANIA SLOVAK REPUBLIC SLOVENIA SPAIN SWEDEN SWITZERLAND TURKEY UNITED KINGDOM THREE NEW MEMBER STATES GAINED IN 2013: ESTONIA, LITHUANIA AND ICELAND BULGARIA JOINED IN MAY 2014 3 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015

EUMETSAT s mission The primary objective is to establish, maintain and exploit European operational meteorological satellite systems, responding to the needs of our members states and taking into account as far as possible the recommendations of the World Meteorological Organisation. A further objective is to contribute to operational climate monitoring and detection of global climatic changes. Responding to operational needs of our member states for data, covering scales from near real time (weather forecasting needs) to decadal (climate monitoring needs). 4 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015

EUMETSAT main areas of activity satellites development, launch and operations data acquisition, processing and dissemination supporting our users in the utilisation of this data 5 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015

EUMETSAT ground segment overview METEOSAT JASON-2 INITIAL JOINT POLAR SYSTEM METOP NOAA SATELLITES CONTROL AND DATA ACQUISITION FLIGHT OPERATIONS PRE-PROCESSING EUMETSAT HEADQUARTERS THIRD-PARTY DATA SOURCES DATA CENTRE EUMETSAT HEADQUARTERS METEOROLOGICAL PRODUCT EXTRACTION EUMETSAT HEADQUARTERS Central processing and generation of products SATELLITE APPLICATION FACILITIES WITHIN EUMETSAT MEMBER STATES Distributed processing and generation of products REAL TIME DISSEMINATION OF DATA AND PRODUCTS VIA EUMETCAST APPLICATIONS GROUND SEGMENT USERS 6 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015

EUMETSAT SAF network across Europe 7 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015

What do we provide and who are our users? EUMETSAT and the SAFs essentially provide core data and s/w services EUMETSAT has no mandate to provide in a leading role downstream services to users, but it can support them Member States Partner organisations (e.g. NOAA) Copernicus (e.g. MyOcean) ECMWF End users.. they can all use the data and provide downstream services, in accordance and under the conditions of the EUMETSAT data policy agreed by the Member States 8 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015

What do we provide and who are our users? EUMETSAT and the SAFs essentially provide core data and s/w services EUMETSAT has no mandate to provide in a leading role downstream services to users, but it can support them Member States main source of requirements Partner organisations (e.g. NOAA) Copernicus (e.g. MyOcean) ECMWF End users.. they can all use the data and provide downstream services, in accordance and under the conditions of the EUMETSAT data policy agreed by the Member States 9 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015

Capacity building To maximize the return to the investment made to set up and sustain the satellite programs EUMETSAT and member states work in close cooperation in defining data contents and formats EUMETSAT and SAFs help-desks Capacity building: specific user groups, training events and activities Frameworks: EUMETSAT user support and training program: 5-year plan agreed with the member states International context: in collaboration with NOAA, WMO, IOC/IODE 10 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015

Training of marine forecasters how was the story triggered? WMO recommendation: improve the use of scatterometer and altimeter wind and wave data in marine forecasting in the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) in the SH GMDSS Met Area High-Seas Operational Forecast Responsibility Data routinely used in operational forecasts? If so, how are they accessed? Surface Vector Winds QuikSCAT (to go on GTS) ASCAT Significant Wave Height Jason-1 & Jason-2 ENIVSAT (to go on GTS) V VI VII VIII-S X XIV-N XIV-S XV Marine Meteorological Service, Brazilian Navy National Institute for Space, Brazil Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, Argentina South African Weather Service Mauritius Meteorological Service Australian Bureau of Meteorology Fiji Met Service Met Service of New Zealand Servicio Meteorológico de la Armada, Chile Yes FTP Yes FTP Some FTP No No No No No No No Some FTP No No No No No No No No No Yes FTP Yes FTP Yes FTP Yes FTP Yes FTP Yes FTP Yes GTS No No Yes FTP No No No No No No 11 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015

Training of marine forecasters: lessons learned and continuity Course 1: Dec 2009 in Oostende (IOC/IODE): getting to know the issues and challenges Data access/formats, etc the one-stop-shopping concept Need for more hands-on approach Europeans were not using the data either! Course 2: Dec 2011 in Oostende (IOC/IODE): targeting European users No common data visualisation and analysis system -> introduction of GEMPAKS and eport Course 3/4: March 2013 in Brazil (INPE/CPTEC) targetting South American users and Dec 2013 in Pretoria (SA Weather Service) targetting African users Established use of GEMPAKS and eport and teachers team Need to build up a history of cases as they happen Need for continuous development - forum or discussion group Focusing on training the trainers and getting the local centres involved in the training 12 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015

Training marine forecasters building a community 13 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015

Parallels with esurge one-stop-shopping Assuming that what we are shopping is for data: NRT data portals OSI SAF AVISO PODAAC ftp?? EUMETSAT operational data access via ftp being considered - first step: Online Data Access (ODA) for S-3 data 15 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015

Parallels with esurge one-stop-shopping But marine forecaster community does not only need NRT data, additional requirements: Detection of events Access to history of events Synergetic visualisation of different data types eport esurge viewer eport moving towards a web map server system during 2015/2016 16 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015

Parallels with esurge: community building and continuity Ocean forum and working groups 17 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015

Parallels with esurge: community building and continuity Example: the Convection Working Group In cooperation with the European Severe Storm Laboratory EUMETSAT funds maintenance of the web site and the organisation of up to two meetings per year http://essl.org/cwg/ 18 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015

The future of esurge some key questions to answer How does the esurge community see the evolution of the demonstrational service established via the esurge project into an operational service? What would its components be? Who would host (or has the mandate to host) each of those components? What are the potential role of the GDACS or the Copernicus MCS in supporting such operational service? Are there any gaps? Would some of the EUMETSAT activities described be of use to support any of those elements? We think that establishing a storm surge working group supported by EUMETSAT, based on the community built by the esurge project, would be a good start. It would provide a context to pick up the questions above and a voice w.r.t EUMETSAT and its member states 19 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015

Conclusions and way forward EUMETSAT mandate as core data and software provider (jointly with the SAFs). We are not downstream service providers, but support our users, who are EUMETSAT has experience in community building and in responding to the needs of e.g. the operational marine forecasters and convection user and expert groups: understanding their requirements and supporting solutions: eport, EUMETCast, ftp data access, etc Continuity through support of user groups and continuous training Within the user services and training program agreed with our member states (i.e., European weather services) In coordination with the SAFs and international organisations such as WMO and IOC/IODE Could any of these activities/elements help carry the esurge heritage forward into the future? 20 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015

21 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015 mark.higgins@eumetsat.int julia.figa@eumetsat.int

The member states Our member states are represented towards EUMETSAT by their national weather services and organisations, e.g. Met Office Agenda Estatal de Meteorologia Météo-France Deutscher Wetterdienst Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut Eesti Meteoroloogia ja Hudroloogia Instituut Uffici Generale spazio Aereo e Meteorologia etc... 22 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015

What do we provide and who are our users DOWNSTREAM SERVICES CORE DATA AND s/w SERVICES 23 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015

EUMETSAT programmes overview YEAR... 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 METEOSAT FIRST GENERATION METEOSAT-7 METEOSAT SECOND GENERATION METEOSAT-8 METEOSAT-9 Mandatory Programmes EUMETSAT POLAR SYSTEM (EPS) METOP-A Optional and Third Party Programmes YEAR... 24 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015 METEOSAT-10 MSG-4/METEOSAT-11 METOP-B Operational Development JASON JASON-2 JASON-3 COPERNICUS SENTINEL-3 METEOSAT THIRD GENERATION MTG-I-1 : IMAGERY MTG-S-1: SOUNDING METOP-C MTG-I-2: IMAGERY METOP SECOND GENERATION METOP-SG-A1 METOP-SG-B1 MTG-I-3: IMAGERY JASON CONTINUITY OF SERVICE (JASON-CS) SENTINEL-4 ON MTG-S SENTINEL-5 ON EPS-SG MTG-S-2: SOUNDING MTG-I-4: IMAGERY METOP-SG-A2 METOP-SG-B2 METOP-SG-A3 METOP-SG-B3 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

NWP SAF SAF on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP SAF) aims at increasing the benefits to Met.- Services from Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) develops advanced techniques for the effective use of satellite data development and maintenance of RTTOV radiative transfer model, ATOVS and AVHRR Pre-processing Package (AAPP) Leading Entity is the UK MetOffice, Exeter 25 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015

Ocean and Sea Ice SAF Sea surface temperature Ocean and Sea Ice (OSI) SAF routinely produces and disseminates products characterising the ocean surface and the energy fluxes across the sea surface Operationally produces information on the sea ice characteristics (extend, concentration, ) Leading Entity is Météo-France in Lannion OSI SAF distributes near real-time products based on NOAA, MSG, Metop, DMSP and GOES data Sea ice concentration 26 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015

Capacity building international context (VLABs) Virtual Laboratory for Training and Education in satellite Meteorology partnerships between satellite operators and specialized training centres established by WMO 27 esurge symposium in Delf, February 2015