Soil Water - Climate Feedbacks in Europe in the 21st Century (SWELTER-21)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Leicester
Department Name: Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
Whilst computer predictions of future climate agree that rising concentrations of greenhouse gases will warm the earth's surface over the 21st century, there is less concensus concerning how this will affect the climate in a region such as Europe, in particular when considering changes in rainfall. Broadly speaking, northern Europe is likely to get wetter, particularly during the winter, and central and southern Europe are expected to experience drier and hotter summers. Although regional changes in rainfall are difficult to predict with confidence, these are critical features of a changed climate which decision makers need to plan for now. For example, the likelihood of the UK experiencing more frequent summer droughts in the future has implications for the planning and building of new reservoirs, for agriculture and for the maintenance of key habitats. Uncertainty in our predictions of the water cycle arises from inadequate representation of key processes in climate models. When considering the likelihood of future droughts, one key area is the relationship between the atmosphere and the land. During summer, soils dry, which in many parts of Europe limits evaporation of soil moisture into the atmosphere. When this happens, there is a change in the partition of solar energy absorbed by the land surface; less energy is used for evaporation and more is used to warm the atmosphere directly. This 'feedback' can affect the development of clouds and rainfall, especially the occurrence of local summertime storms which develop during the afternoon. Furthermore, when soil dries out over a large region, as happened for example across much of Western and Central Europe during 2003, the lack of land evaporation can affect much larger-scale weather systems. Warmer air temperatures are expected to produce notably drier soil conditions in the summers of the late 21st century through increased spring-time evaporation. As a result, we would expect the drier soils to start to feed back on the atmosphere earlier in the summer, and in more northerly regions which are currently wet. Our lack of detailed knowledge about how this feedback between soil wetness and precipitation operates provides one of the major uncertainties in predicting the likelihood of droughts in the coming decades. Studies have suggested that the drought of 2003 may have illustrated the shape of things to come, with dry spring soils implicated in the drought and associated heatwave which followed. This implies that future European summers could become more variable from year to year, as droughts become 'locked in' by favourable soil conditions. This project will use a state-of-the-art computer model of the land surface and atmosphere combined with new compilations of data obtained from satellites to improve our understanding of how soil wetness influences rainfall. We will use observations from periods of drought to see directly how temperatures rise as soil water declines. We will use this knowledge to better represent evaporation over land in the UK Met Office climate model. We will also examine where, within drought-affected regions, clouds and storms preferentially develop, over relatively wetter or drier landscapes. This will allow us to predict the conditions where dry soils suppress rainfall, thus prolonging drought. From our detailed observations we will evaluate and improve climate models and their representation of soil wetness feedbacks. These improvements will feed into new Met Office predictions of climate change for Europe. We would also expect to improve the Met Office capability to predict whether the forthcoming summer will be hot and dry, as these seasonal predictions use the same computer model. Any improvements in prediction on either time scale would have direct benefits for the UK economy.
Organisations
- University of Leicester (Lead Research Organisation)
- European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (Collaboration)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Collaboration)
- Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) (Collaboration)
- Brockmann Consult (Collaboration)
- Estellus (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF READING (Collaboration)
- Portuguese Institute of Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) (Collaboration)
- ACRI-ST (Collaboration)
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- Meteorological Office UK (Collaboration)
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Collaboration)
- University of Bern (Collaboration)
- University of Bath (Collaboration)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Collaboration)
- European Space Agency (Collaboration)
- Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (Collaboration)
- SWANSEA UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
People |
ORCID iD |
John Remedios (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Bulgin C
(2018)
Quantifying Uncertainty in Satellite-Retrieved Land Surface Temperature from Cloud Detection Errors
in Remote Sensing
Candy B
(2017)
The Impact of Satellite-Derived Land Surface Temperatures on Numerical Weather Prediction Analyses and Forecasts
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Cheval S
(2022)
MODIS-based climatology of the Surface Urban Heat Island at country scale (Romania)
in Urban Climate
Ermida S
(2017)
Modelling directional effects on remotely sensed land surface temperature
in Remote Sensing of Environment
Gallego-Elvira B
(2019)
Evaluation of Regional-Scale Soil Moisture-Surface Flux Dynamics in Earth System Models Based on Satellite Observations of Land Surface Temperature
in Geophysical Research Letters
Gallego-Elvira B
(2016)
Global observational diagnosis of soil moisture control on the land surface energy balance
in Geophysical Research Letters
Ghent D
(2017)
Global Land Surface Temperature From the Along-Track Scanning Radiometers
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Ghent D
(2019)
A New Approach to Defining Uncertainties for MODIS Land Surface Temperature
in Remote Sensing
Good E
(2017)
A spatiotemporal analysis of the relationship between near-surface air temperature and satellite land surface temperatures using 17 years of data from the ATSR series
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Hu X
(2019)
Agricultural drought monitoring using European Space Agency Sentinel 3A land surface temperature and normalized difference vegetation index imageries
in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Loew A
(2017)
Validation practices for satellite-based Earth observation data across communities
in Reviews of Geophysics
Ma Z
(2019)
Long-Term Precipitation Estimates Generated by a Downscaling-Calibration Procedure Over the Tibetan Plateau From 1983 to 2015
in Earth and Space Science
Martin M
(2019)
Comprehensive In Situ Validation of Five Satellite Land Surface Temperature Data Sets over Multiple Stations and Years
in Remote Sensing
Mielonen T
(2018)
Summertime Aerosol Radiative Effects and Their Dependence on Temperature over the Southeastern USA
in Atmosphere
Nie J
(2021)
Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity Retrieval From Nighttime Middle-Infrared and Thermal-Infrared Sentinel-3 Images
in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
Perry M
(2020)
Multisensor Thermal Infrared and Microwave Land Surface Temperature Algorithm Intercomparison
in Remote Sensing
Popp T
(2020)
Consistency of Satellite Climate Data Records for Earth System Monitoring
in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Rasmussen T
(2018)
Impact of Assimilation of Sea-Ice Surface Temperatures on a Coupled Ocean and Sea-Ice Model
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
Sobrino J
(2016)
Synergistic use of MERIS and AATSR as a proxy for estimating Land Surface Temperature from Sentinel-3 data
in Remote Sensing of Environment
Tagesson T
(2018)
Disaggregation of SMOS soil moisture over West Africa using the Temperature and Vegetation Dryness Index based on SEVIRI land surface parameters
in Remote Sensing of Environment
Zheng Y
(2019)
Land Surface Temperature Retrieval from Sentinel-3A Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer, Using a Split-Window Algorithm
in Remote Sensing
Zhou X
(2020)
Drought Monitoring Using the Sentinel-3-Based Multiyear Vegetation Temperature Condition Index in the Guanzhong Plain, China
in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Description | This project is examining land surface-atmosphere feedbacks in the context of European droughts. As well models such as JULES and the Met Ofice climate models, we can also look at surface state with land surface temperature and soil moisture data from satellite. The use of quality, land surface temperature data is particularly innovative. |
Exploitation Route | Indirectly in climate change impacts Improvement of Met Office and other forecasting centre models. Improvement of climate models |
Sectors | Environment |
Description | Very much increased awareness with UK land surface modelling community of the use of land surface temperatures. The Met Office are now placing considerable emphasis on this aspect of their models. The use of new satellite data for land surface temperature is leadign to a better understanding of the challenges of land surface temperatures for weather forecasting and environmental impacts |
First Year Of Impact | 2011 |
Sector | Environment |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal |
Description | Invited Expert onto the GCOS-TOPC Panel |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Description | LSTM Mission Advisory Group |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Description | Assessment of the potential use of high resolution Thermal Infra-Red (TIR) bands |
Amount | € 400,000 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 4000120368/17/NL/AF/hh |
Organisation | ESA - ESTEC |
Sector | Public |
Country | Netherlands |
Start | 04/2017 |
End | 04/2020 |
Description | COPERNICUS SPACE COMPONENT VALIDATION FOR LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE, AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH AND WATER VAPOUR SENTINEL-3 PRODUCTS |
Amount | € 1,500,000 (EUR) |
Organisation | European Space Agency |
Sector | Public |
Country | France |
Start | 01/2020 |
End | 12/2021 |
Description | EO4Society - Restore-IT |
Amount | € 150,000 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 4000136484/21/I-DT-lr |
Organisation | European Space Agency |
Sector | Public |
Country | France |
Start | 12/2021 |
End | 12/2022 |
Description | ESA CCI Land Surface Temperature |
Amount | € 1,745,720 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 4000123553/18/I-NB |
Organisation | European Space Agency |
Sector | Public |
Country | France |
Start | 04/2018 |
End | 10/2021 |
Description | ESA Earth Observation Envelope Programme - Data User Element (GlobTemperature) |
Amount | € 332,995 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 4000xxx/13/I-AM |
Organisation | European Space Agency |
Sector | Public |
Country | France |
Start | 11/2013 |
End | 12/2017 |
Description | ESA LSTM End-2-End Mission Performance Simulator (E2ES) Study |
Amount | € 250,000 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 4000125870/18/NL/LF |
Organisation | ESA - ESTEC |
Sector | Public |
Country | Netherlands |
Start | 11/2018 |
End | 03/2020 |
Description | ESA Sentinel-3 Mission Performance Centre (S3MPC) |
Amount | € 354,466 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 4000111836/14/I-LG |
Organisation | European Space Agency |
Sector | Public |
Country | France |
Start | 09/2018 |
End | 12/2021 |
Description | EUMETSAT Visiting Scientist Scheme (Intercomparison of the CM SAF and GlobTemperature LST TCDR Project) |
Amount | € 21,000 (EUR) |
Organisation | European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
Sector | Public |
Country | Germany |
Start | 03/2016 |
End | 10/2016 |
Description | Ground-Based Observations for validation (GBOV) of Copernicus Global Land Products |
Amount | € 172,000 (EUR) |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 09/2017 |
End | 06/2021 |
Description | Ground-Based Observations for validation (GBOV) of Copernicus Global Land Products - Phase 2 |
Amount | € 2,000,000 (EUR) |
Organisation | European Union |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 12/2021 |
End | 12/2025 |
Description | Land Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (LST_cci) Phase-2 |
Amount | € 1,300,000 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 4000123553/18/I-NB |
Organisation | European Space Agency |
Sector | Public |
Country | France |
Start | 03/2022 |
End | 03/2025 |
Description | Newton-Fund CSSP-China VEgetation near Real time Detection And moNiToring for China (VERDANT) Project |
Amount | £221,755 (GBP) |
Funding ID | P107722 |
Organisation | Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2020 |
End | 03/2021 |
Description | Optical Mission Performance Cluster (OPT-MPC) |
Amount | € 20,000,000 (EUR) |
Organisation | European Space Agency |
Sector | Public |
Country | France |
Start | 01/2022 |
End | 12/2026 |
Description | SPRINT - ESDIM (Environmental Sites Data Intelligent Monitoring) |
Amount | £49,950 (GBP) |
Organisation | UK Space Agency |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2021 |
End | 03/2022 |
Description | Thermal InfraRed Imager Scientific sIMulation study (TIRI-SIM) |
Amount | € 90,000 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 4000117242/16/NL/FF/mc |
Organisation | ESA - ESTEC |
Sector | Public |
Country | Netherlands |
Start | 06/2016 |
End | 06/2017 |
Title | LST_cci AATSR |
Description | ESA Land Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (LST_cci): Land surface temperature from AATSR (Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer), level 3 collated (L3C) global product (2002-2012), version 3.00 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Climate model evaluation |
Title | LST_cci ATSR-2 |
Description | ESA Land Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (LST_cci): Land surface temperature from ATSR-2 (Along-Track Scanning Radiometer 2), level 3 collated (L3C) global product (1995-2013), version 3.00 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Climate model evaluation |
Title | LST_cci Aqua-MODIS |
Description | ESA Land Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (LST_cci): Land surface temperature from MODIS (Moderate resolution Infra-red Spectroradiometer) on Aqua, level 3 collated (L3C) global product (2002-2018), version 3.00 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Climate model evaluation |
Title | LST_cci IRCDR |
Description | ESA Land Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (LST_cci): Multisensor Infra-Red (IR) Low Earth Orbit (LEO) land surface temperature (LST) time series level 3 supercollated (L3S) global product (1995-2020), version 2.00 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Climate model evaluation |
Title | LST_cci IRMGP |
Description | ESA Land Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (LST_cci): Multisensor Infra-Red (IR) Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) land surface temperature (LST) level 3 supercollated (L3S) global product (2009-2020), version 1.00 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Climate model evaluation |
Title | LST_cci SLSTR-A |
Description | ESA Land Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (LST_cci): Land surface temperature from SLSTR (Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer) on Sentinel 3A, level 3 collated (L3C) global product (2016-2020), version 3.00 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Climate model evaluation |
Title | LST_cci SLSTR-B |
Description | ESA Land Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (LST_cci): Land Surface Temperature from SLSTR (Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer) on Sentinel 3B, level 3 collated (L3C) global product (2018-2020), version 3.00 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Climate model evaluation |
Title | LST_cci Terra-MODIS |
Description | ESA Land Surface Temperature Climate Change Initiative (LST_cci): Land Surface Temperature from MODIS (Moderate resolution Infra-red Spectroradiometer) on Terra, level 3 collated (L3C) global product (2000-2018), version 3.00 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Climate model evaluation |
Title | Land Surface Temperature (LST) dataset from the (A)ATSR instruments |
Description | Land Surface Temperature (LST) products from the Along-Track Scanning Radiometers (ATSRs) at Level-2 (swath) and Level-3 (gridded) |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Use of this dataset in multiple user applications |
URL | http://data.globtemperature.info/ |
Title | Land Surface Temperature (LST) datasets from the MODIS instruments |
Description | Land Surface Temperature (LST) datasets from the MODIS instruments with uncertainties estimated from first principles |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2015 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Use the dataset in investigative studies on data assimilation into NWP, and building relationships between land and air temperature to fill the gaps in the global air temperature coverage |
Title | Land Surface Temperature Climate Data Record from ATSRs |
Description | A first Climate Data Record (CDR) of Land Surface Temperature from the ATSR sensors |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | First publications in preparation Collaborations with other group in intercomparing the CDR with Air Temperature data records |
URL | http://data.globtemperature.info |
Title | Land Surface Temperature from SLSTR |
Description | Operational Land Surface Temperature from the SLSTR sensor |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Operational Sentinel dataset available to the wide user community via Copernicus |
URL | http://data.globtemperature.info |
Title | Multi-sensor Merged Land Surface Temperature Dataset |
Description | 3-hourly Multi-sensor GEO + LEO Merged Land Surface Temperature dataset to resolve the diurnal cycle on a global basis |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Exploitation of this dataset in first publications |
URL | http://data.globtemperature.info |
Description | H2020 EUSTACE Project |
Organisation | Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) |
Country | Denmark |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Work Package Leader on Validation and Intercomparison Provision of satellite Land Surface Temperature data and associated uncertainties from the MODIS instruments |
Collaborator Contribution | Project Leadership Building relationships between surface temperature and air temperature |
Impact | Production of MODIS Land Surface Temperature Product to be added to the UK CEDA Archive for use by the wider science community |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | H2020 EUSTACE Project |
Organisation | Meteorological Office UK |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Work Package Leader on Validation and Intercomparison Provision of satellite Land Surface Temperature data and associated uncertainties from the MODIS instruments |
Collaborator Contribution | Project Leadership Building relationships between surface temperature and air temperature |
Impact | Production of MODIS Land Surface Temperature Product to be added to the UK CEDA Archive for use by the wider science community |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | H2020 EUSTACE Project |
Organisation | Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute |
Country | Netherlands |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Work Package Leader on Validation and Intercomparison Provision of satellite Land Surface Temperature data and associated uncertainties from the MODIS instruments |
Collaborator Contribution | Project Leadership Building relationships between surface temperature and air temperature |
Impact | Production of MODIS Land Surface Temperature Product to be added to the UK CEDA Archive for use by the wider science community |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | H2020 EUSTACE Project |
Organisation | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Work Package Leader on Validation and Intercomparison Provision of satellite Land Surface Temperature data and associated uncertainties from the MODIS instruments |
Collaborator Contribution | Project Leadership Building relationships between surface temperature and air temperature |
Impact | Production of MODIS Land Surface Temperature Product to be added to the UK CEDA Archive for use by the wider science community |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | H2020 EUSTACE Project |
Organisation | University of Bath |
Department | Department of Mathematical Sciences |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Work Package Leader on Validation and Intercomparison Provision of satellite Land Surface Temperature data and associated uncertainties from the MODIS instruments |
Collaborator Contribution | Project Leadership Building relationships between surface temperature and air temperature |
Impact | Production of MODIS Land Surface Temperature Product to be added to the UK CEDA Archive for use by the wider science community |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | H2020 EUSTACE Project |
Organisation | University of Bern |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Work Package Leader on Validation and Intercomparison Provision of satellite Land Surface Temperature data and associated uncertainties from the MODIS instruments |
Collaborator Contribution | Project Leadership Building relationships between surface temperature and air temperature |
Impact | Production of MODIS Land Surface Temperature Product to be added to the UK CEDA Archive for use by the wider science community |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | H2020 EUSTACE Project |
Organisation | University of Reading |
Department | Department of Meteorology |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Work Package Leader on Validation and Intercomparison Provision of satellite Land Surface Temperature data and associated uncertainties from the MODIS instruments |
Collaborator Contribution | Project Leadership Building relationships between surface temperature and air temperature |
Impact | Production of MODIS Land Surface Temperature Product to be added to the UK CEDA Archive for use by the wider science community |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | International Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity Working Group (ILSTE) |
Organisation | ACRI-ST |
Country | France |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Setup and Coordination of this International Working Group Leading the effort to reclassify Land Surface Temperature (LST) as an Essential Climate Variable (ECV) Production of community-wide protocols and formats: Validation Protocol; Harmonised Data Format; Common Terminology Organisation of International Meetings of the Working Group |
Collaborator Contribution | Setup and population of the ILSTE Website Contributions to the effort to reclassify LST as an ECV Contributions to the community protocols and data formats |
Impact | Direct influence on the decision by GCOS to add LST as an ECV in the next Implementation Plan of 2016 Community-wide established LST Validation Protocol, Harmonised Data Format for LST, and Common Terminology |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | International Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity Working Group (ILSTE) |
Organisation | Estellus |
Country | France |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Setup and Coordination of this International Working Group Leading the effort to reclassify Land Surface Temperature (LST) as an Essential Climate Variable (ECV) Production of community-wide protocols and formats: Validation Protocol; Harmonised Data Format; Common Terminology Organisation of International Meetings of the Working Group |
Collaborator Contribution | Setup and population of the ILSTE Website Contributions to the effort to reclassify LST as an ECV Contributions to the community protocols and data formats |
Impact | Direct influence on the decision by GCOS to add LST as an ECV in the next Implementation Plan of 2016 Community-wide established LST Validation Protocol, Harmonised Data Format for LST, and Common Terminology |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | International Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity Working Group (ILSTE) |
Organisation | European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Setup and Coordination of this International Working Group Leading the effort to reclassify Land Surface Temperature (LST) as an Essential Climate Variable (ECV) Production of community-wide protocols and formats: Validation Protocol; Harmonised Data Format; Common Terminology Organisation of International Meetings of the Working Group |
Collaborator Contribution | Setup and population of the ILSTE Website Contributions to the effort to reclassify LST as an ECV Contributions to the community protocols and data formats |
Impact | Direct influence on the decision by GCOS to add LST as an ECV in the next Implementation Plan of 2016 Community-wide established LST Validation Protocol, Harmonised Data Format for LST, and Common Terminology |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | International Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity Working Group (ILSTE) |
Organisation | European Space Agency |
Country | France |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Setup and Coordination of this International Working Group Leading the effort to reclassify Land Surface Temperature (LST) as an Essential Climate Variable (ECV) Production of community-wide protocols and formats: Validation Protocol; Harmonised Data Format; Common Terminology Organisation of International Meetings of the Working Group |
Collaborator Contribution | Setup and population of the ILSTE Website Contributions to the effort to reclassify LST as an ECV Contributions to the community protocols and data formats |
Impact | Direct influence on the decision by GCOS to add LST as an ECV in the next Implementation Plan of 2016 Community-wide established LST Validation Protocol, Harmonised Data Format for LST, and Common Terminology |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | International Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity Working Group (ILSTE) |
Organisation | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Setup and Coordination of this International Working Group Leading the effort to reclassify Land Surface Temperature (LST) as an Essential Climate Variable (ECV) Production of community-wide protocols and formats: Validation Protocol; Harmonised Data Format; Common Terminology Organisation of International Meetings of the Working Group |
Collaborator Contribution | Setup and population of the ILSTE Website Contributions to the effort to reclassify LST as an ECV Contributions to the community protocols and data formats |
Impact | Direct influence on the decision by GCOS to add LST as an ECV in the next Implementation Plan of 2016 Community-wide established LST Validation Protocol, Harmonised Data Format for LST, and Common Terminology |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | International Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity Working Group (ILSTE) |
Organisation | Meteorological Office UK |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Setup and Coordination of this International Working Group Leading the effort to reclassify Land Surface Temperature (LST) as an Essential Climate Variable (ECV) Production of community-wide protocols and formats: Validation Protocol; Harmonised Data Format; Common Terminology Organisation of International Meetings of the Working Group |
Collaborator Contribution | Setup and population of the ILSTE Website Contributions to the effort to reclassify LST as an ECV Contributions to the community protocols and data formats |
Impact | Direct influence on the decision by GCOS to add LST as an ECV in the next Implementation Plan of 2016 Community-wide established LST Validation Protocol, Harmonised Data Format for LST, and Common Terminology |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | International Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity Working Group (ILSTE) |
Organisation | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
Department | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
Country | United States |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Setup and Coordination of this International Working Group Leading the effort to reclassify Land Surface Temperature (LST) as an Essential Climate Variable (ECV) Production of community-wide protocols and formats: Validation Protocol; Harmonised Data Format; Common Terminology Organisation of International Meetings of the Working Group |
Collaborator Contribution | Setup and population of the ILSTE Website Contributions to the effort to reclassify LST as an ECV Contributions to the community protocols and data formats |
Impact | Direct influence on the decision by GCOS to add LST as an ECV in the next Implementation Plan of 2016 Community-wide established LST Validation Protocol, Harmonised Data Format for LST, and Common Terminology |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | International Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity Working Group (ILSTE) |
Organisation | National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration |
Country | United States |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Setup and Coordination of this International Working Group Leading the effort to reclassify Land Surface Temperature (LST) as an Essential Climate Variable (ECV) Production of community-wide protocols and formats: Validation Protocol; Harmonised Data Format; Common Terminology Organisation of International Meetings of the Working Group |
Collaborator Contribution | Setup and population of the ILSTE Website Contributions to the effort to reclassify LST as an ECV Contributions to the community protocols and data formats |
Impact | Direct influence on the decision by GCOS to add LST as an ECV in the next Implementation Plan of 2016 Community-wide established LST Validation Protocol, Harmonised Data Format for LST, and Common Terminology |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | International Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity Working Group (ILSTE) |
Organisation | Portuguese Institute of Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) |
Country | Portugal |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Setup and Coordination of this International Working Group Leading the effort to reclassify Land Surface Temperature (LST) as an Essential Climate Variable (ECV) Production of community-wide protocols and formats: Validation Protocol; Harmonised Data Format; Common Terminology Organisation of International Meetings of the Working Group |
Collaborator Contribution | Setup and population of the ILSTE Website Contributions to the effort to reclassify LST as an ECV Contributions to the community protocols and data formats |
Impact | Direct influence on the decision by GCOS to add LST as an ECV in the next Implementation Plan of 2016 Community-wide established LST Validation Protocol, Harmonised Data Format for LST, and Common Terminology |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | International Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity Working Group (ILSTE) |
Organisation | University of Reading |
Department | Department of Meteorology |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Setup and Coordination of this International Working Group Leading the effort to reclassify Land Surface Temperature (LST) as an Essential Climate Variable (ECV) Production of community-wide protocols and formats: Validation Protocol; Harmonised Data Format; Common Terminology Organisation of International Meetings of the Working Group |
Collaborator Contribution | Setup and population of the ILSTE Website Contributions to the effort to reclassify LST as an ECV Contributions to the community protocols and data formats |
Impact | Direct influence on the decision by GCOS to add LST as an ECV in the next Implementation Plan of 2016 Community-wide established LST Validation Protocol, Harmonised Data Format for LST, and Common Terminology |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | Optical Mission Performance Cluster (OPT-MPC) |
Organisation | ACRI-ST |
Country | France |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Sentinel-3 Land Surface Temperature mission quality assurance |
Collaborator Contribution | Service delivery lead |
Impact | Mission quality |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Sentinel-3 Mission Performance Centre (S3MPC) - SLSTR Expert Support Laboratory |
Organisation | ACRI-ST |
Country | France |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Sentinel-3 Land Surface Temperature (LST) Validation Scientist and Algorithm Manager |
Collaborator Contribution | Expert Support Laboratory coordination and other expert teams |
Impact | Sentinel-3 SLSTR Cal-Val Plan and Gap Analysis Preparations for Sentinel-3 Level-2 Product commissioning |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | Sentinel-3 Mission Performance Centre (S3MPC) - SLSTR Expert Support Laboratory |
Organisation | King's College London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Sentinel-3 Land Surface Temperature (LST) Validation Scientist and Algorithm Manager |
Collaborator Contribution | Expert Support Laboratory coordination and other expert teams |
Impact | Sentinel-3 SLSTR Cal-Val Plan and Gap Analysis Preparations for Sentinel-3 Level-2 Product commissioning |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | Sentinel-3 Mission Performance Centre (S3MPC) - SLSTR Expert Support Laboratory |
Organisation | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Sentinel-3 Land Surface Temperature (LST) Validation Scientist and Algorithm Manager |
Collaborator Contribution | Expert Support Laboratory coordination and other expert teams |
Impact | Sentinel-3 SLSTR Cal-Val Plan and Gap Analysis Preparations for Sentinel-3 Level-2 Product commissioning |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | Sentinel-3 Mission Performance Centre (S3MPC) - SLSTR Expert Support Laboratory |
Organisation | University of Reading |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Sentinel-3 Land Surface Temperature (LST) Validation Scientist and Algorithm Manager |
Collaborator Contribution | Expert Support Laboratory coordination and other expert teams |
Impact | Sentinel-3 SLSTR Cal-Val Plan and Gap Analysis Preparations for Sentinel-3 Level-2 Product commissioning |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | Sentinel-3 New Products |
Organisation | ACRI-ST |
Country | France |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Sentinel-3 Cloud Masking algorithm for Level-2 Land Surface Temperature (LST), Aerosol over Land, and Fire Radiative Power Products |
Collaborator Contribution | Project Leadership Cloud Masking over Sea Level-1 Cloud Masking |
Impact | Project only just started |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Sentinel-3 New Products |
Organisation | Brockmann Consult |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Sentinel-3 Cloud Masking algorithm for Level-2 Land Surface Temperature (LST), Aerosol over Land, and Fire Radiative Power Products |
Collaborator Contribution | Project Leadership Cloud Masking over Sea Level-1 Cloud Masking |
Impact | Project only just started |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Sentinel-3 New Products |
Organisation | King's College London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Sentinel-3 Cloud Masking algorithm for Level-2 Land Surface Temperature (LST), Aerosol over Land, and Fire Radiative Power Products |
Collaborator Contribution | Project Leadership Cloud Masking over Sea Level-1 Cloud Masking |
Impact | Project only just started |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Sentinel-3 New Products |
Organisation | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Sentinel-3 Cloud Masking algorithm for Level-2 Land Surface Temperature (LST), Aerosol over Land, and Fire Radiative Power Products |
Collaborator Contribution | Project Leadership Cloud Masking over Sea Level-1 Cloud Masking |
Impact | Project only just started |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Sentinel-3 New Products |
Organisation | Swansea University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Sentinel-3 Cloud Masking algorithm for Level-2 Land Surface Temperature (LST), Aerosol over Land, and Fire Radiative Power Products |
Collaborator Contribution | Project Leadership Cloud Masking over Sea Level-1 Cloud Masking |
Impact | Project only just started |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Sentinel-3 New Products |
Organisation | University of Reading |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Sentinel-3 Cloud Masking algorithm for Level-2 Land Surface Temperature (LST), Aerosol over Land, and Fire Radiative Power Products |
Collaborator Contribution | Project Leadership Cloud Masking over Sea Level-1 Cloud Masking |
Impact | Project only just started |
Start Year | 2016 |
Title | Multi-sensor Matchup Database for Surface Temperature |
Description | Matchup Database for validating extracted satellite observations with in situ measurements, extracted satellite observations with simulated surface temperature, and intercomparsions between multiple instrument datasets |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Impact | A key step in the processing chain of multi-sensor full archive Land Surface Temperature data products |
Description | Formal Working Group on Land Surface Temperature |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Forum for the data providers and users to come together to share knowledge |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015,2016 |