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Jun 2002
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Proceedings of the SPECTRA Workshop - The concept of a space-borne Earth Observation Mission addressing the terrestrial componen
Mathematics
Logic
Scientific paper
The Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) has been designed to observe and model the hydrologic cycle and energy fluxes in the atmosphere, at the land surface, and in the upper oceans. GEWEX is an integrated program of research, observations, and science activities ultimately leading to the prediction of global and regional climate change. The objectives of the GEWEX Program are to: -- determine the hydrological cycle and energy fluxes by means of global measurements of atmospheric and surface properties; -- model the global hydrological cycle and its impact on the atmosphere, oceans and land surfaces; -- develop the ability to predict the variations of global and regional hydrological processes and water resources, and their response to environmental change; and, -- advance the development of observing techniques, data management, and assimiliation systems for operational application to long-range weather forecasts, hydrology, and climate predictions. The primary activities of GEWEX are a) global data set development, b) process studies, c) model development support. To accomplish this, GEWEX has many components to address the critical elements with roles in the energy and water cycles. The data projects focus on global distribution and variability of clouds, water vapour, aerosols, surface radiation, precipitation and the features of the land surface and near surface meteorology that couple the land to the atmosphere. The modelling projects focus on the cloud, land-atmosphere and boundary layer parameterizations necessary to drive our regional and global predictive models. Coupling the land-atmosphere at the mesoscale has been the initial strategy for GEWEX and five major continental-scale field campaigns have been underway to provide new process and modelling understanding in the Amazon, Baltic Sea, Mississippi River Basin, MacKenzie River Basin, and four basins in Asia (Thailand, Tibet, Siberia and China). A West African campaign is also in the planning stages. All of these GEWEX components have elements that consider and address the carbon aspects of the land-atmosphere interactions and GEWEX has two integrating projects to facilitate these activities: the International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP) and the Global Land Atmosphere System Study (GLASS). ISLSCP focuses on the field campaigns, data sets and role of carbon exchange in the land-atmosphere coupling while GLASS focuses on the integration and parameterization of key land-atmosphere features in the full range of modelling activities. The major focus of ISLSCP is to improve our understanding of how carbon, energy and water are exchanged between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere as an important component in understanding and predicting climate change. This is done by ISLSCP with the following objectives: -- Demonstrate the types of surface and near-surface satellite measurements that are relevant to climate and global change studies. -- Develop and improve algorithms for the interpretation of satellite measurements of land-surface features. -- Develop methods to validate area-averaged quantities derived from satellite measurements for climate simulation models. -- Prepare the groundwork for future operational production of landsurface data sets, which can be directly applied to climate problems. GEWEX also plays a vital role in the new WCRP-IGBP-IHDP joint Carbon Initiative and there are a series of new developments that impact the new carbon studies related to the interdisciplinary aspects of coupled land-atmosphere-ocean modelling and global observations. The new satellite spectrometer-interferometer instrumentation, improved land-atmosphere coupling in models and new carbon treatment and transport within global atmospheric models, all relate to the overall need for an improved integrated view of the global carbon-ocean-land-atmosphere interactions based on new observations and modelling techniques. This presentation will update the activities and plans of GEWEX as they relate to the terrestrial carbon cycle and its vital role in the Earth-atmosphere system.
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