This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 640276.
Remedy 2: Adoption of measurement systems approach and assessment by international bodies
Adoption of the GAIA-CLIM approach or of a similar approach to measurement maturity assessment established by globally responsible entities, such as the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) or WIGOS and / or in subsequent relevant scientific projects. A single approach needs to be formulated, adopted, and rolled out across a broad range of non-satellite observing capabilities to assess their maturity and appropriately categorise their role in the global observing system. Periodic re-review of observing capabilities should then be instigated to ensure that assessments reflect up-to-date snapshots of measurement capabilities. A mechanism of feedback to the contributing measurement networks should be codified and enacted. The results of the assessments should be made available in a way that provides actionable information to end-users and to ensure they use the most appropriate data for their applications.
The adoption of an international programmatic effort to assess measurement capabilities would directly address the gap and ensure broad buy-in.
Documentation of adopted mechanism, results of assessment available to users.
- High
- Programmatic multi-year, multi-institution activity
- Less than 3 years
- Low cost (< 1 million)
- Yes
- Copernicus funding
- WMO
- ESA, EUMETSAT or other space agency