ESA’s DUE eSurge Project: Improving storm surge modelling with advanced satellite data products.

Phillip Harwood; CGI - Phillip.Harwood@cgi.com Paolo Cipollini, Helen Snaith, Kevin Horsburgh, Luke West, Marcello Pasaro ; NOCJacob Høyer, Weiwei Fu, Kristine Madsen; DMIRory Scarrott, Declan Dunne, Ned Dwyer; CMRCAd Stoffelen, Tilly Driesenaar; KNMICraig Donlon; ESA

User consultation meeting held 2009, asking what users wanted from a storm surge project.This was the basis of the subsequent ITT for eSurge.

Its mission is:

To support storm surge systems, their services, engineers and scientists by facilitating the widespread user uptake and application of advanced information products from ESA and other Earth Observation missions.

It is funded under ESA’s Data User Element (DUE) programme, and is being undertaken by a consortium of CGI (formerly Logica), NOC, DMI, CMRC, KNMI.

It is currently in its operational phase, making a variety of satellite and other data available for historic and live surge events.

is the ESA Storm Surge Demonstration Project.

However the modeling and forecasting of surges could be improved by use of newer types of satellite products. METOP-A image of

Sandy from Eumetsat

Satellite data already play a critical role in storm forecasting.

• Coastal altimetry.• High resolution and near-coast

winds from scatterometry.

These can be used:•For validating model results after an event.•As inputs to NRT models during an event.

Replace in-situ data where infrastructure is lacking

Ensemble pruning

Post event model reassessment

Better input data (esp. wind fields)

To support storm surge systems, their services, engineers and scientists by facilitating the widespread user uptake and application of advanced information products from ESA and other Earth Observation missions.

To support storm surge systems, their services, engineers and scientists by facilitating the widespread user uptake and application of advanced information products from ESA and other Earth Observation missions.

1) Make it easier to access relevant satellite data

www.storm-surge.info

To support storm surge systems, their services, engineers and scientists by facilitating the widespread user uptake and application of advanced information products from ESA and other Earth Observation missions.

2) Provide new types of satellite data especially suited to storm surge applications

To support storm surge systems, their services, engineers and scientists by facilitating the widespread user uptake and application of advanced information products from ESA and other Earth Observation missions.

3) Perform experiments to prove the value of the data

To support storm surge systems, their services, engineers and scientists by facilitating the widespread user uptake and application of advanced information products from ESA and other Earth Observation missions.

4) Provide training to help new users start working with satellite data and surge models

Training course (right): deadline for applications December 6th.

Online training: ask for demo tomorrow.

To support storm surge systems, their services, engineers and scientists by facilitating the widespread user uptake and application of advanced information products from ESA and other Earth Observation missions.

5) Help build a community where satellite data providers and storm surge researchers can engage and interact.

This is the second of three meetings we will organise – the third will be in summer 2014 at a venue TBC.

There have been many recent events showing the importance of being able to accurately predict storm surges.

It is not just the big storms that count ….… Outer Hebrides, 11-12 January 2005.

• 2m storm surge• 5 lives lost• €20m infrastructure

damage• Loss of electricity• Broken transport links• Loss of

communications

What are we aiming to get out of this meeting?

•Understand the problems faced by storm surge forecasters, modellers, planners and others who need to deal with practical consequences.•Present recent work on new satellite data and how it can be used for improving storm surge modelling.•Try to make a synthesis to understand how the available data can best be applied to real needs.•Have an open discussion about what else can be done in the field.

Open discussion between everyone is important….

… so jump in and get your feet wet..