Dee, D.

Loew, A.

Mathieu, P.

Planton, S.

Ringer, M.

Saunders, R.

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The ESA Climate Change Initiative - Climate Modellers User Group

Geophysical Research AbstractsVol. 12, EGU2010-3076, 2010EGU General Assembly 2010© Author(s) 2010The ESA Climate Change Initiative - Climate Modellers User GroupRoger Saunders (1), Alexander Loew (2), Dick Dee (3), Mark Ringer (1), Serge Planton (4), and Pierre-PhilippeMathieu (5)(1) (roger.saunders@metoffice.gov.uk), (2) Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (3) ECMWF, Reading,U.K., (4) MeteoFrance, Toulouse, France , (5) ESRIN, Frascati, ItalyThe new ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) approved in 2009 is in the process of being set up. The overallobjective of the CCI, as laid out in the Programme declaration approved by ESA member states is:"To realize the full potential of the long-term global "Earth Observation" archives that ESA together withits Member states have established over the last thirty years, as a significant and timely contribution to the ECVdatabases required by UNFCCC".In particular, the CCI programme aims to deliver a set of "Global Satellite Data Products" as a contribu-tion to the establishment of a long-term Climate Data Record meeting the needs of the Global Climate ObservingSystem (GCOS). Within the first phase, the CCI will focus on the following sub-set of eleven "Essential ClimateVariable" (ECVs) defined by GCOS. For the oceans the ECVs identified are Sea-Ice, Sea-Level, Sea-SurfaceTemperature and Ocean Colour. For the land surface Glaciers & Ice caps, Land Cover and Fire Disturbance wereselected. Finally for the atmospheric domain Cloud Properties, Ozone, Aerosols and Greenhouse Gases wereselected.In addition to the individual projects addressing each ECV a Climate Modelling Users Group (CMUG) isbeing set up. The role of the CMUG is to bring a climate modellers perspective to the programme and to enable thesatellite data community and the "Climate Modelling Community" to work closely together. Another importanttask is to provide the role of integration across the 11 diverse ECV projects. This presentation will describe theESA CCI and the role of the CMUG and invite the climate modellers to provide their requirements to the CMUG.

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