The ICSU/WMO World Data Center for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere: - Service for Science

Prof. Dr. Michael Bittner and Dr. Julian Meyer-Arnek

6 July, 2015Paris

http://wdc.dlr.de

Mission Statement

Provide free, simplified, standardized and sustainable access to atmosphere related satellite based data, information, value added products and services for science, administrative bodies, and industries

R&D activities

Aerosols and RadiationTrace GasesAtmospheric DynamicsInfrasound

R&D activities

Aerosols and RadiationTrace GasesAtmospheric DynamicsInfrasound

Data archive

Atmospheric trace gasesAerosols, RadiationTemperaturesCloud physical parametersSurface parameters (SST, LST, NDVI)

Spectroscopic data

Data archive

Atmospheric trace gasesAerosols, RadiationTemperaturesCloud physical parametersSurface parameters (SST, LST, NDVI)

Spectroscopic data

Services

Convention MonitoringRenewable EnergiesAir Quality & HealthHazard Early DetectionValidation

Services

Convention MonitoringRenewable EnergiesAir Quality & HealthHazard Early DetectionValidation

Portfolio

Activities of WDC-RSAT along the “Value Adding Chain”From data towards information

Numerical ModelsNumerical Models

Data assimilation Level 3 Level 4

synopticdistributions analysis

Value Added ProductsValue Added Products

Level 0 Level 1 Level 2

raw data intensities footprints

Satellite DataSatellite Data

Non Satellite DataNon Satellite Data

Level 0 Level 1 Level 2

raw data intensities footprints

Satellite DataSatellite Data Numerical ModelsNumerical Models

Data assimilation

Non Satellite DataNon Satellite Data

Level 3 Level 4

synopticdistributions analysis

Value Added ProductsValue Added Products

Service: Monitoring the Ozone Hole (Montreal Protocol)

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Interactive Product Exploration: Navigation in Time and Space

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Service: Interactive Product Exploration

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Service: Interactive Product Exploration (assimilated products NO2 [µg/m³], forecast)

http://www.lab.dtrd.de/Obsairve

Presentation of service atCeBit, Hannover, 03/2012

R&D: Dissemination of information via App on the mobile phone

R&D: Trend analysis of air pollutants(Mean total NO2concentration over a 7-years period – 2007-2013)

NO2 Trend [1014 Moleküle/cm² pro Jahr]

MetOp/GOME-2: 2007-2013

R&D: Trend analysis of air pollutants(Linear trend in total NO2 concentration over a 7-years period – 2007-2013)

MetOp/GOME-2: 2007-2013

R&D: Weekly cycle of air pollutants for larger cities(Linear trend of total NO2concentration over a 7-years period – 2007-2013)

Sunday Friday

Service: Monitoring desert dust loads in the atmosphere

August, 2013 - derived from IASI on MetOp

Service: Monitoring cloud cover & cloud physical parameters over Europe

16 May, 2014 - derived from AVHRR on NOAA-19

30 Years of AVHRR @ DLR

Cloud phys. Param.

Snow Cover

LST (Day)

LST (Night)

NDVI

SST

Service: Monitoring snow cover over Europe

19 February, 2015 - derived from AVHRR on NOAA-19

30 Years of AVHRR @ DLR

Cloud phys. Param.

Snow Cover

LST (Day)

LST (Night)

NDVI

SST

30 Years of AVHRR @ DLR

Cloud phys. Param.

Snow Cover

LST (Day)

LST (Night)

NDVI

SST

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R&D: Analysing special eventsHeat wave in Europe 28 July (left) – 10 August (right), 2003

8 12 16 20 24 28 ºC8 12 16 20 24 28 ºC

30 Years of AVHRR @ DLR

Cloud phys. Param.

Snow Cover

LST (Day)

LST (Night)

NDVI

SST

NO2

O3

PM25

PM10

S02

Health related

information

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NO2

O3

PM25

PM10

S02

Erlaubt die Beurteilung des Gesundheitsrisikos durch die additive Wirkung verschiedener Luftschadstoffe bei kurzzeitiger Exposition

Sicard et al., 2011, 2012

www.DLR.de • Folie 18

R&D: Developing measures for health impact of pollutantsAir pollution: Most significant individual environmental health risk (WHO) 3,2 Million premature deaths per year (2010)

Renewable Energy - SolarProviding information about the state of the atmosphere in order to serve

forecasts on potential

energy yield, monitoring power plant efficiency and planning of new power

plants

Cloud parameters

0.0 0.5 1.0

AOD 550

Aerosols

Snow cover

Water vapor

Ozone

opentopomap.org

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R&D: Monitoring plumes of volcanic emission (ash, SO2)

(CLAUDIO SANTANA/AFP/Getty Images)

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Service: Monitoring the atmospheric airglow layer (~90km altitude)

ISS030-E-10008, Nikon D3S, F/2.8, 24mm, 0.8 sec. exposure, ISO-12800, December, 4th, 2012, 00:13:44 UTC

OI - 630 nm

OI - 577.7 nmO2 ~ 865 nm

Na - 589 nm OH (87 km):~ 500 - 4500 nm

Service: Hosting the data of the international Network for the Detection of Mesospheric Change, NDMC

http://wdc.dlr.de/ndmc

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International Users:Users from 120 Countries (01/2015)