EUMETGRIDEUMETGRID Towards a common European data Towards a common European data infrastructure for gridded climate data infrastructure for gridded climate data

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Who is EUMETGRID?

• An optional programme of EUMETNET• 25 participating NMSs

• Programme Manager: Ole Einar Tveito, met.no• Climate scientists, gridding experts, IT experts, users

• Building on demonstration project (S- EUROGRID)

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Why EUMETGRID?

• Continental-scale gridded climate data is important to …

– understand past climate variations and their origin

– improve prediction of climate variations and change

– adapt to a changing climate

– improve warning against extremes/hazards

• Huge amount of gridded climate information exists

– Distributed, fragmented, many not sustained

• Increasing needs and requirements for downstream services

– S-EUROGRID survey: 99% would use a pan-European, high-resolution

• Harmonization is needed for making data available and useful for a wider community.

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SEAMLESS ACCESS TO THE BEST AVAILABLE HIGH RESOLUTION GRIDDED

DATA SETS IN EUROPE

AND

THEIR RELATED PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

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High resolution adds value

22. August 2005

daily

1x1 km

all available stations

quality prooved data

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… should complement on-going re-analysis and observational interpolation initiatives by:

• Provide access to gridded climate data that already exist.

• Develop an in-situ based pan-European gridded data set based on tiled national datasets.

• Establish a sustainable data infrastructure for exchange and distribution of grid data and products:– distributed archives, adapted to different data policies.

• Cooperate with and take advantage of other relevant initiatives providing gridded data, e.g. the EURO4M FP7 project.

EUMETGRID …

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• Variables: Atmospheric surface parameters: – air temperature (daily mean, min and max)– precipitation– possibly others (air pressure, snow cover, …)

• Area: Europe in its entirety.

The EUMETNET area, WMO Region VI, Europe as defined by EEA, the African Mediterranean countries and the countries of the Middle East.

• Period: The past 50-100 years with a focus on 1971 till present.

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EUMETGRID Structure

Gridding methods•testing•comparison

User interaction and services•User needs•data-on-demand vs ready-to-go-data

Management

Border problemRe-projection & re-sampling

Data access &Services portal

Data Policy

CROSS CUTTING

Data access & Exchange•Data sets•Dataformats

•”Dataprocessing”•IT

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Compliant to standards/specs of:

WIS, INSPIRE, GEO(SS), GMES

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Ascii-Ascii-filesfiles

SQLSQL

GIS-formats GIS-formats

InterpretorInterpretor

InterpretorInterpretor

InterpretorInterpretor

Users & Users & downstream downstream

servicesservices

DISTRIBUTED DISTRIBUTED DATASOURCESDATASOURCES

ACCESS and ACCESS and INTERPRETORINTERPRETOR

AccessAccess

AccessAccess

AccessAccess

PROCESSING & DISSEMINATIONPROCESSING & DISSEMINATION

Re-project Re-project & &

re-scalere-scale

Re-project Re-project & &

re-scalere-scale

Re-project Re-project & &

re-scalere-scale

Merge Merge & &

analyseanalyse

tmp-tmp-storagestorage

USERSUSERSEUMETGRID DataflowEUMETGRID Dataflow

APPLICATIONSAPPLICATIONS

Query builderQuery builder

meta-meta-datadata

User User interface/dialogueinterface/dialogue

QMQM

NCs & DCPCsNCs & DCPCs(NMHSs & other datacentres)(NMHSs & other datacentres)

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Timeline

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Benefits from EUMETGRID

• Best available data– High resolution– Full climate networks

• Local knowledge, continental coverage

• One access point / distributed sources

• Clearer ownership

• Added value for users– Downstream services– Coverage– Tiling

• Re-useable technology

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EUMETGRID <> FP7 call for GCI

• Concept in accordance with principles GEO• Same challenges with interoperability / data sharing• Committment for sustainability and unified access• Interest in sharing knowledge and experience

• EUMETGRID is still a concept • Not as mature as TIGGE, HARON, GOOS• Allocation to SBA unclear

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Contact DetailsOle Einar Tveito

EUMETGRID Programme ManagerG.I.E./EIG EUMETNET

 

G.I.E. EUMETNET Secretariatc/o L’Institut Royal Météorologique de BelgiqueAvenue Circulaire 31180 Bruxelles, Belgique Tel: +32 (0)2 373 05 18Fax:     +32 (0)2 890 98 58Email: info@eumetnet.euWeb: www.eumetnet.eu

EUMETGRID Programme ManagerNorwegian Meteorological InstituteP.O.Box 43 BlindernNO-0313 OSLO, Norway

Tel: + 47 22963375Fax: + 47 22963380Email: ole.einar.tveito@met.noWeb: www.eumetgrid.eu (soon)