CEOS Development Environment

WGClimate-22 & GHG Task Team

Event Dates: February 11th - 13th, 2025

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Week at a glance

Presentations

Session 1: Opening
1.1: Welcome
1.2: WGClimate Work Plan
1.3: GHG Roadmap and Activities
1.4: Review of UNFCCC COP-29 and Earth Information Day
1.5: UNEP International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO)
1.6: The skill of Earth Observation for Tipping Points research (Invited)
1.7: Strengthening the climate modelling – observation interface (Invited)

Session 2: WGClimate – ECV Inventory & Climate Data Records
2.1: Future plan for ECV inventory and support for gap analysis and coordinated action plan
2.2: Response to GCOS Implementation Plan
2.3: GCOS Update
2.5: AVHRR Fundamental CDR & Heritage Dataset recovery
2.6: CDR definition
2.7: GCOS guideline for generating climate data records

Session 3: GHG-TT
3.1: GHG Best Practices Update (BP-01)
3.2: Sensor development
3.3: Calibration and Level 1 Products: Annual vicarious calibration campaigns (L1CAL-01)
3.4: Level 2 Products: Validation | 3.4a: Level 2 Products: Validation towards operations
3.5: Level 2 Products: Intercomparison Algorithms | 3.5a: Intercomparison Algorithms – research to operations
3.6: Flux Inversion Modelling: Assess adaptation of current CEOS practices for G3W applications (INV-01)

Session 4: Stakeholders
4.1: UNFCCC: GST/RSO
4.2: UNFCCC: Adaptation
4.3: CEOS-CGMS GST Lessons Learned
4.4: Future CEOS GST Strategy

Session 5: Partnerships
5.1: WMO Global Greenhouse Gas Watch (G3W)
5.2: Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Session 6: National emission estimates
6.1: Opportunities and challenges for the use of space-based observations to inform carbon fluxes
6.2: GHG Budget: results from RECCAP2
6.3: Global GHG reconciliation: UNFCCC GHG inventories and atmospheric inversion
6.4: Improving the UK GHG Inventory
6.5: EO data in the French LULUCF inventory
6.6: Germany
6.7: Steps to improve Norwegian and European emission estimates
6.8: Denmark

Session 7: GHG-TT – System Development & Stakeholder Engagement
7.1: System Development: Inventory of use cases (SYS-02)
7.2: Engaging with GCP & RECCAP (STAKE-05)
7.3: G3W & IMEO Engagement (STAKE-03)

Session 8: Other Topics
8.1: Participation and contribution to UNFCCC events
8.2: Expanding the Utility of ECV Inventory to Address Emerging Priorities (tipping points, CMIP, ESMO, adaptation, carbon cycle in a changing climate …)
8.3: Roadmaps combined: comprehensive monitoring of the carbon budget
8.4: Capacity Development: EOTEC DevNet Climate Change Communities of Practice
8.5: WIGOS 2050 Vision