some template text and images for presentations on the land / atmosphere data assimilation project...
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Some template text and images for presentations on the Land / Atmosphere
Data Assimilation project
Bethan HarrisAssimila Ltd
Project Summary
This project will advance the state of the art in Earth Observation (EO) data assimilation in two specific areas – land surface processes and atmospheric composition.
Interfacing Earth Observation Data with Atmosphere and Land Models
Project Overview
Creating a comprehensive characterisation scheme for vegetation type is a longstanding problem in Earth system modelling. The myriad soil and vegetation types with their seasonal changes mean that quantifying the nature of the land surface at any particular point is hugely taxing. And taking sufficient detailed observations to verify any global scheme is an enormous undertaking.
Project Overview continued
This project will build on the growing research in this area, first by advancing the latest vegetation and radiative transfer models and then by incorporating these into an updated version of the new Earth Observation Land Data Assimilation System (EOLDAS) model. This will provide a cutting-edge surface data assimilation system for continuing research.
Project Overview continued
The second area of research is in quantifying greenhouse gas emissions. Attempts to model such emissions suffer from similar difficulties as for vegetation modelling: changes in emissions are localised, vary with season, and are difficult to observe in sufficient detail so that the models can be verified. On top of this, the emissions of anthropogenic sources are hard to distinguish from the emissions of natural sources.
Project Overview continued
The question of sufficient observations will be tackled first, as Observing System Simulation Tools will be developed, documented and made available to the wider community. Improvements to model performance will then be made to allow higher resolution runs, and two data assimilation techniques for distinguishing between natural and anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions will be compared
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Project Structure OverviewInterfacing EO data with
Atmosphere and Land Models
Task 1Analysis
Reading
Task 2 Process model development
Reading
Task 3EOLDAS Baseline
UCL
Task 4Validation
Reading
Task 8Outreach
Reading
Task 9Management
Assimila
WP2.4 Microwave RT
Modelling
Reading
WP2.3 Optical RT Modelling
UCL
WP2.2 Vegetation Structure
UCL
WP2.1 Dynamics
Reading
WP 1.3 Contributions and review for
AtmosphereEdinburgh
WP 1.2Contributions and review for
land
Reading
WP1.1 Analysis and
Document preparation
Assimila
WP3.2 Integration of
enhanced components
UCL
WP3.1 EOLDAS V1
Consolidation
UCL
WP4.3 Field Validation
Reading
WP4.2Synthetic
experiments
UCL
WP4.1Data
Management
Reading
WP8.3capacity building
workshop Reading+team
members
WP 8.2Promotional
materialReading+team
members
WP 8.1Roadmap
Reading+team members
WP 9.2Scientific
management
Reading
WP 9.1Project
management
Assimila
Task 7CO:CO2Ratios
Edinburgh
Task 6Hi-res Model
Edinburgh
Task 5OSSE Tool
Edinburgh
WP5.1Tool
Development
Edinburgh
WP5.2Visualisation
tools
Edinburgh
WP6.1Hi-res forward
and inverse model for CO2
and CH4Edinburgh
WP7.1Ensemble KF
methods
Edinburgh
WP7.2Variational Methods
Leeds
WP5.3Documentation
Edinburgh
Images – “Data”
Source: http://pixabay.com/en/binary-code-binary-binary-system-63529/
Source: http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-2665444580Required reference: “photo by widdowquinn on Flickr”
Source: http://pixabay.com/en/ball-http-www-crash-administrator-63527/ Source: http://pixabay.com/en/black-business-computer-computing-18295/
Images – “Observations”
Source: http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-6648960719Required Reference: “photo by NASA Goddard Photo and Video on Flickr”
Source: http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-6818408270Required reference: “photo by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on Flickr”
Source: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/944298Required Reference: “Copyright Thomas Nurgent (www.geograph.org.uk/profile/48267)”
Source: http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-6875674067Required Reference: “photo by NASA Goddard Photo and Video on Flickr”
Images – “Models”
Source: http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-3334947628Required Reference: “photo by Argonne National Laboratory on Flickr”
Required reference: “International Space Innovation Centre”
Source: http://de.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-2656065581 Required Reference: “photo by Erica_Marshall on Flickr”Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/5552929311/in/photostream/
Required Reference: “photo by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos on Flickr”