Section: Satellite-based climate data | Using Gridded Satellite Data for Climate Services, Riga, 2018 | EUMETSAT

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    Workshop on the Use of Gridded Satellite Data for Climate Services

    Online Phase: 16 April - 27 April 2018

           Classroom Phase: 14 - 18 May 2018, Riga, Latvia                            

                                   
    • Please use the forum to:

      • get in touch with your course mates and the instructors
      • raise your questions
      • discuss your ideas for the mini project you would like to work on during the classroom phase.

      Forum posts might not be answered immediately - however the instructors will attend the forum and answer your questions in "near real time" during the following times:

      • Monday, 16 April 2018, 12:00 - 14:00 UTC(!): Jörg from CM SAF (General questions about the course; EDR / FCDR / TCDR; CM SAF Data search and ordering; CM SAF R Toolbox)
      • Tuesday, 17 April 2018, 10:00 - 12:00 UTC(!): Danny / Roger from Stats4SD (R-Instat)
      • Wednesday, 18 April, 2018, 11:00 - 13:00 UTC(!): Christine from EUMETSAT (General questions about the course; EDR / IDR / FCDR / TCDR; CM SAF Data search and ordering)
      • Friday, 20 April 2018, 13:00 - 15:00 UTC(!): Angel from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (Climate Data Store)
      • Tuesday, 24 April 2018, 10:00 - 12:00 UTC(!): Danny / Roger from Stats4SD (R-Instat)
      • Wednesday, 25 April 2018,  8:00 - 10:00 UTC(!): Jörg from CM SAF (General questions about the course; EDR / FCDR / TCDR; CM SAF Data search and ordering; CM SAF R Toolbox)
      • Thursday, 26 April 2018, 11:00 - 13:00 UTC(!): Christine from EUMETSAT (General questions about the course; EDR / IDR / FCDR / TCDR; CM SAF Data search and ordering)
      • Friday, 27 April 2018, 13:00 - 15:00 UTC(!): Angel from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (Climate Data Store)

      You can post your contributions at any time and we will do our best to answer them also outside the time slots listed above!

Satellite-based climate data

  • Satellite-based climate data

    Satellite-based Climate Data

    This Workshop is about the use of satellite-based climate data for climate Monitoring and other applications.

    Here we are providing background Information on climate data and, more specifically, on those climate data that can be derived from satellite observations. In the context of climate monitoring, climate data are collected

    • to document the status of the climate system and
    • to classify the current state of the climate system in the long term climatology

    The climate observations are coordinated by WMO in the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), which defines the necessary parameters (the so-called essential climate variables (ECVs) and their requirememts to monitor the climate. Many ECVs, as well as many other parameters that have not been defined as ECVs, can be derived from satellite observations. These include cloud coverage, surface radiation, integrated water vapor, selected greenhouse gases (e.g., CO2), surface albedo, soil moisture, sea surface temperature. While for some parameters long-term climate data records are already available (e.g, cloud coverage, radiation) for other paramters the satellite-based time series might still be too short to be considered a climate data record (e.g., for greenhouse gases).

    Several sources of satellite-based climate data are available:

    These data are made available at no charge.

    • In this workshop we focus on the data provided by the CM SAF. A general introduction into satellite-based climate data records, and those provided by the CM SAF as well as some applications can be found in this presentation, by Jörg Trentmann, DWD / CM SAF.