This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 640276.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 640276.
The extensive review of existing observing non-satellite capabilities for the measurement of a multitude of ECVs provided in GAIA-CLIM should be considered for viability over the long term as a service activity updated on a regular basis. The process towards the implementation of such a service comprises of the following steps:
With respect to the last point above, the review offered within GAIA-CLIM will be improved and supported over the long term by Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) for the in-situ measurements component for a subset of the atmospheric, land and oceanic ECVs considered in GAIA-CLIM through the provision of extensive inventories of the investigated networks. C3S is dealing with the access to in-situ observation and shall provide valuable examples of structuring such governance between the data suppliers. The C3S outreach system ensures the coordination of its activities with other international activities for a sustained exchange of rich measurement metadata information ongoing at WMO’s Commission for Basic Systems, GCOS, GEOSS, GAW (Global Atmospheric Watch). In particular, a synergy with the INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe), at the EU level, and with WIGOS (WMO Integrated Global Observing System), at the international level, must be established.
The Copernicus Climate Data Store (CDS) will facilitate the access to rich discovery metadata and support the reduction of the fragmentation already experienced in the metadata sets available worldwide for a large number of networks.
Use of the collected geographical metadata through the CDS, the GAIA-CLIM ‘Virtual Observatory’ or similar efforts, and hence downstream applications. The timeline for the assessment and quantification of these datasets can be quantified on the basis of user’s level of satisfaction (via feedback collection) in the first two years after the release of metadata through each specific access platform.