CEOP AEGIS

Hydrology and Climatology of South and

East Asia

EU GEO project

Massimo Menenti – TU Delft NL

Li Jia – WUR Alterra NL

Jerome Colin – Univ. Strasbourg F

18 beneficiaries from 8 european and asian countries

An international cooperation project between Europe and Asia to improve knowledge on hydrology and meteorology of the Tibetan Plateau and its role in climate, monsoon and extreme meteorological events To construct out of existing ground measurements and

current / future satellites an observing system to determine and monitor the water yield of the Plateau, i.e. how much water is finally going into the seven major rivers of SE Asia

To monitor the evolution of snow, vegetation cover, surface wetness and surface fluxes and analyze the linkage with convective activity, (extreme) precipitation events and the Asian Monsoon.

CEOP-AEGIS

Coordinated Asia-European long-term Observing system of Qinghai–Tibet Plateau hydro-metOeorological processes and the Asian-monsoon systEm with Ground satellite Image data and numerical Simulations

Vegetation phenology, transpiration and surface

temperature

Scientific community

Project partners

GIS Service

Data Server (openDAP)

CEOP-AEGIS Web Portal

GEOSS

Portal

CEOP-AEGIS

Technical Elements

CEOP-AEGIS

• 18 Research organizations and SME-s in 8 Countries

• 6 Research organizations China

• 1 Partner India, 1 Partner Japan

• Coordinator: M.Menenti TU Delft

• Permanent observatories Qinghai – Tibet Plateau: CAS, NSF-

China

• WATER Remote Sensing Experiment: CAS

• ESA satellite data: ESA-NRSCC Dragon Program 2 and 3 two

projects

CEOP-AEGIS

Partnership

Visibility GEO

GEO VII Plenary and Ministerial Summit Beijing 2010:

Asian regional showcase

Stand EU

Stand China

Own stand

GEO VIII Plenary Istanbul 2011:

Stand EU

Stand Capacity Building Committee

GEO Portal:

Compelling example http://www.geo-tasks.org/geoss_portfolio

CEOP AEGIS data system is a registered component

CEOP-AEGIS

ID-03 Science and Technology in GEOSS

Activities:

1.1 Develop a framework for the transition of relevant research infrastructures to

sustained operation

1.2 Encourage the incorporation of new technology in observing systems

1.3 Assess the requirement for continuity and long-term monitoring by Earth

observation systems of essential data from GEOSS components.

1.4 Support state-of-the-art technology in the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI)

and observation infrastructures

Lead: M.Menenti

Task WA-01 Integrated Water Information (incl. Floods and

Droughts)

Components:

C1 Integrated Water-cycle Products and Services

C2 Information Systems for Hydro-meteorological Extremes (incl.

Floods and Droughts)

C5 Information System Development and Capacity Building

CEOP-AEGIS

Contributions WP 2008 - 2011

Precipitation

Composite reflectivity

field from contiguous

radars

(Porcu et al.)

Cloud Dynamics and Radiation

Database used to retrieve rainrate

from microwave radiometers +

merged into VIS-IR

Six ground weather radars + microwave radiometers (SSMI/I, SSMIS, AMSR-E,

TMI) + VIS-IR (MVIRI, MODIS, AVHRR) + radars (TRMM and CloudSat)

Glaciers and Snow Meltwater

Snow Cover Terra Aqua

Terra+Aqua

Merge Terra + Aqua / MODIS

FSCA: spectral mixture analysis algorithm

Number of frozen days in China (Oct. 1, 2002 ~ Sep. 31, 2003)

Sensor: SSM/I

Method: Decision Tree

Precision Evaluation

Total classification precision: 91％ ;Kappa coefficient: 80％

Soil Frozen/Thaw Status

(Wang et al.)

Data system operational at Institute Tibetan Plateau Research,

Beijing

New algorithms developed and applied for several hydrological

observations

Most hydrological data sets 2008 – 2010 produced and available

on data system

Distributed hydrological model Plateau and headwaters main

rivers S and E Asia developed, evaluation in progress

Trans-boundary water transfers downstream of Plateau evaluated

(Bangladesh, India, Pakistan..)

125 team Members

79 MSc and 93 PhD students active in the framework of the project

CEOP-AEGIS

Achievements

Stakeholders Meetings and training sessions in China, India and

Nepal

Consolidation / full fruition of results requires a follow-up phase of

at least 3 years

Dual fruition:

Transfer of knowledge and methods to other parts of the world

Demonstration case-studies to include complete river basins

around the Qinghai – Tibet Plateau

CEOP-AEGIS

Outlook

1st Stakeholders Meeting and Advanced

Training Session

CMA Beijing May 17th – 19th 2011

40 Participants: Regional Meteorological and

Hydrological Services; PhD students, young scientists

2nd Stakeholders Meeting and Advanced

Training Session

NIT Rourkela, India April 16th 20th 2012

60 Participants: National and Local Government; Meteorological and

Hydrological Services; PhD students, young scientists

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Suggested priorities

Basic data to monitor fresh water resources world-wide: increasingly scarce,

hard to access data on river flows

Hydrological data products + integration by large area hydrological models

Expand current data base of water level in lakes and rivers merging all laser

and radar altimeter data

Integrate water quantity and water quality information for a few exemplary

large transnational watersheds to document benefits of shared hydrologic

information