Gap Analysis for Integrated Atmospheric ECV CLImate Monitoring
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Results

The main results of the GAIA-CLIM project were:

  • The Maturity Matrix Assessment (MMA) [1] developed within GAIA-CLIM to assess various quantifiable aspects of the maturity of a measurement system or network of measurement systems.
  • Product Traceability and Uncertainty (PTU) documents [2] that represent a consistent metrological (measurement science) based approach to understanding measurement systems and their processing. Their key foundation is a traceability diagram that fully outlines the processing steps from SI units or internationally agreed standards to the final reported measurement.
  • Methods developed for - and applied to - the quantification of smoothing and sampling issues in a range of atmospheric ground-based measurement techniques, and to estimate the uncertainties that need to be taken into account when comparing non-perfectly co-located ground-based and satellite measurements with different spatio-temporal smoothing and sampling properties. Libraries (i.e. guiding material and data files) of such uncertainties for key ground-based measurement systems and for key comparisons [3] have been made available.
  • The 'the ‘GRUAN Processor [4]’ tool, which enables the comparison of co-located geophysical fields and simulated brightness temperatures between radiosondes and model fields.
  • The GAIA-CLIM Virtual Observatory [5], providing a unified platform for co-located observations, with statistics and uncertainty propagation information for both level-1 and level-2 products.
  • The gap assessment of unfulfilled user needs in observation capability of Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) within the sphere of the GAIA-CLIM project, which is sumarised in the Gaps Assessment and Impacts Document (GAID). [6] The full details on all identified gaps are available in an online Catalogue of Gaps [7].
  • The Recommendations document [8] that is a high-level accessible document, destilling the findings from the gap analysis performed within GAIA-CLIM into a set of 11 actionable priority recommended activities.
Public Content [9]

Source URL: http://www.gaia-clim.eu/page/results

Links
[1] http://www.gaia-clim.eu/page/maturity-matrix-assessment
[2] http://www.gaia-clim.eu/page/product-traceability-and-uncertainty-documents
[3] http://www.gaia-clim.eu/page/smoothing-and-co-location-uncertainty-libraries
[4] http://www.gaia-clim.eu/page/gruan-processor
[5] http://www.gaia-clim.eu/page/virtual-observatory
[6] http://www.gaia-clim.eu/system/files/document/d6.11.pdf
[7] http://www.gaia-clim.eu/page/gap-reference-list
[8] http://www.gaia-clim.eu/page/recommendations
[9] http://www.gaia-clim.eu/content-access/public-content