Workshop Overview:
Space-based observations of Earth have given us a view of the wonder and complexity of the planet. They also provide society with situational awareness of local-to-global environmental conditions and predictive guidance of near-term weather and related quantities (e.g., hydrology, air quality). While these capabilities have become indispensable to safeguarding life and property, as well as for providing guidance for near-term economic and resource management decisions, there are needs and opportunities to greatly expand their utility and impact. These needs result from the growing connectivity and complexities of our food, water, transportation, shipping, energy, communications, and health sectors.
The goal of this study program is to help accelerate discussions and plans for a greater and more impactful U.S. contribution to the global climate observing system. In this context, “climate” includes observations that support climate science and process understanding, as well as monitoring for environmental situational awareness, climate services, adaptation measures, and mitigation assessments. This includes accounting for the context provided by the international Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) program and the Committee on Earth Observations from Space (CEOS), recent and anticipated developments in technology and access to space, and commercial data providers, and the formulation of concepts for future satellite system architectures to address missing observations in, and continuity of, the global climate observing system.
Workshop #1 Objectives:
For the purposes of this KISS study: “Continuity”, as an abbreviation, involves the technical and programmatic framework associated with developing and operating a set of well-calibrated, complementary satellite observations to support climate science and the associated decision-making related to sustainability and resilience.
The objectives for this first workshop is as follows:
- Establish consensus around the needs and challenges associated with “Continuity”.
Including:- Considering the needs for climate science, mitigation, and adaptation, and
- Identifying technical, programmatic, and observing architecture design challenges.
- Review current and planned Earth observations and the national and international landscapes associated with their continuity and identify gaps in the program of record that represent areas where the U.S. could contribute.
- For one or more priority climate area, identify suites of observations and initial architecture designs to address continuity that will be evaluated, critiqued, and iterated offline in the gap weeks before workshop #2.
- Develop a consensus on a draft outline for the scope and content of a report from the study.
Team Leads
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Caltech
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JPL
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Jupiter/U. Colorado
The study program schedule is available in .pdf here
- Waleed Abdalati — University of Colorado Boulder
- Nancy Baker — Naval Research Laboratory
- Michael Bonadonna — National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Carol Anne Clayson — Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Kelsey Foster — Stanford University
- Christian Frankenberg — Caltech
- Maria Hakuba — Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech/NASA
- Ryan Kramer — University of Maryland, Baltimore County/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Therese Jorgensen — NASA Ames Research Center
- Daniel Limonadi — Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech/NASA
- Anna Michalak — Carnegie Institution for Science
- Peter Pilewskie — University of Colorado Boulder
- Steven Platnick — NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Charlie Powell — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) / University of Michigan
- Jeff Privette — NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information
- Chris Ruf — University of Michigan
- Tapio Schneider — Caltech
- Jörg Schulz — European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)
- Paul Selmants — U.S. Geological Survey
- Rashmi Shah — Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech/NASA
- Qianqian Song — University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Graeme Stephens — Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech/NASA
- Timothy Stryker — USGS National Land Imaging Program
- Wenying Su — NASA Langley Research Center
- Mathew Van Den Heever — University of Colorado
- Anna Veldman — UCLA
- Duane Waliser — Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech/NASA
- Elizabeth Weatherhead — Jupiter Intelligence and University of Colorado Boulder
