The WMO/(GEO) Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System ESIP FEDERATION Environmental Decision Making 8 - 9 July 2009 Santa Barbara, CA William A.
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The WMO/(GEO) Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System ESIP FEDERATION Environmental Decision Making 8 - 9 July 2009 Santa Barbara, CA
William A. Sprigg
(Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona)
Slobodan Nickovic & Leonard Barrie
(World Meteorological Organization) [email protected]
http://www.atmo.arizona.edu/faculty/research/dust/dust.html
The WMO GEO Sand & Dust Storm Warning Advisory & Assessment System
NEW TOOLS Assisting World Wide Public Health, Transportation Safety, Food Security, Environmental Protection …
Who Cares?
Why Bother?
What is the Objective?
What is the Plan?
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Who Cares?
2 billion people live in the arid 34 percent of Earth’s land surface. Local exposure to the region’s airborne dust increases risk of cardiovascular and respiratory disease. Phoenix dust storm – 7 June 2006 Photo by Robb Schumacher Arizona Republic Sprigg, Barrie, Nickovic
Who Cares?
People a continent or ocean away are exposed to these dusts, along with hitchhiking molds, spores, bacteria …. Air and land transportation safety, human and veterinary health, food and water security …. threatened --- and linked to the global economy. Sprigg, Barrie, Nickovic
Who Cares?
Weather and climate are affected by the 1500 billion tons of dust suspended in our atmosphere at any given time Sprigg, Barrie, Nickovic
Satellite-derived Aerosol Optical Depth Several Days in April 2001 (a NASA composite)
MORE THAN 40 NATIONS URGE WMO ACTION TO:
• better understand dust storms, dust entrainment & dispersion • operate a world-wide system to detect, monitor and predict sand & dust storms Sprigg, Barrie, Nickovic
Abstract
An Implementation Plan for an International Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System is under review at WMO. The Plan calls for research, observations, and advisories to support national weather services and others worldwide. A federated system of regional centres form the core of the SDS-WAS, providing nodes for state-of-the-science information on sand and dust storms around the globe. http://www.wmo.int/sdswas Sprigg, Barrie, Nickovic
Objective:
Deliver products useful in reducing adverse effects of sand and dust storms _____________________________
•World-Wide Sand & Dust Storm Detection •Model-Based Simulations & Forecasts •Verification: Models, Measurements &
Monitoring
•Source Characteristics: Mapping & Monitoring •Information Access & Dissemination •Training & Technology Transfer Sprigg, Barrie, Nickovic
Nodes & Centre System Architecture
WMO SDS-WAS
Regional Node 1 Regional Center 1 Partner 1 Partner 2 Partner 3 Partner n Regional Node 2
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Regional Node 3 Regional Node 4
Beijing: Asia/Central Pacific Barcelona: N. Africa, Middle East, Europe
Web-based portals into regional research & forecast services Value-added Observations & Forecasts Neutral ground for operations, research, capacity building & building partnerships Cooperative operational services: Warnings related to SDS-WAS are the responsibility of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs). SDS-WAS input for decision making Sprigg, Barrie, Nickovic
Partner (Federated) System Example: N.Africa, Middle East & Europe Regional Centre/Node ------------------------------------------------ Regional Center: BSC-CNS (Spain) Partners Include:
Meteo-France, UK Met Office, ECMWF, LISA, LSCE, IFT, EUMETSAT, CNR, AERONET/PHOTONS …..
Regional Node Regional Centre
Partner 1 Partner n ….
Partner 2 Partner 3 Partner 4 Partner 5 Sprigg, Barrie, Nickovic …. Tunisian Met Service, University of Athens, University of Tel Aviv, Egyptian Meteorological Agency, METU
FORECASTS AND REANALYSIS PM 2.5
, PM 10 , AOD, deposition, visibility, vertical distribution REGIONAL CHIMERE-dust BSC/DREAM OBSERVATIONS AND VERIFICATION
Near real-time quantitative and qualitative common verification system for all participating forecast models
SATELLITES SeaWifs and Modis MSG SKIRON TAU OMI GLOBAL MOCAGE-dust GEMS-ECMWF GROUND-BASED AERONET
AOD Size distribution
SYNOP - METAR
Visibility
PM10 Network
In Southern Europe and
EMEP NAAPS LMDZ-INCA
Also off-line verification through
AEROCOM
platform including
POLDER, MISR, AVHHR, SEAWIFS, TOMS, AERONET, EARLINET, surface concentrations
Implementation Status
A SYSTEM for a SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS?
Executive Committee Endorsed (With Caution) Prospectus in April 2009: Centres must fit: Global Data and Forecast System Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre Structure Commission for Atmospheric Sciences – Approval in November 2009? Commission for Basic Systems – Final Approval in 2010?
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Thank You!
.. and to NASA Earth Science Applications … and my “observations to models to health
services”
collaborators at UNM EDAC http://phairs.unm.edu/
A Reminder
FIRST STEPS TO DESIGN, TEST AND IMPLEMENT A SYSTEM FOR SEAMLESS COUPLING OF DATA AND INFORMATION BETWEEN THE WMO/GEO SDS-WAS AND THE GEOSS GEOPortal and GEONETCast ESIP FEDERATION WORKSHOP Thursday July 9, 2009 3:30-5:30 Sycamore Room W. A. Sprigg, M. Kafatos, K. Benedict, S. Morain
Motive: Turn space-based observations into information … into societal benefit Opportunity: GEOSS and SDS-WAS Means: ESIP, GEO, Pan-Am Centre [email protected]