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Bridging data gaps, so plans may be targeted, context-specific, and impactful – so better serve people at the frontlines of climate change Interviews with experienced practitioners highlighted a shortfall of suitably representative data of reliable quality is limiting effective implementation of adaptation and resilience projects, particularly at local levels and in developing nations. What’s more, as reported today/this week in the paper ‘Examining Adaptation and Resilience Frameworks: Data quality’s role in supporting climate efforts’ published in Sustainability Journal, no common approach or tool is available to help these experts streamline the process of designing, monitoring, and evaluating such plans. The experts interviewed for the paper cited a lack of measurement indicators that might otherwise help assess the effectiveness of adaptation and …

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Marking the culmination of twelve years continuous research under the Metrology for Earth Observation and Climate brand, at the MetEOC-4 Month 36 meeting, on 4 and 5 July 2023 Nigel Fox, the project series coordinator, said, “This is, in a sense, an end of an era and I personally want to thank everybody who’s been with us for the journey and those who have joined part way along, or been In and out for bits of it.”  “And while there may be a MetEOC-5, in some form, that can only be after a gap, so this marks the end of the continuous series of MetEOC projects. I want to thank everybody who’s been with us for the journey.”   “Thank you for your …

Month 36 Meeting at NPL Teddington : MetEOC has come a long way in twelve years, producing impacts significant and ongoing  Read More »

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A primary objective of MetEOC is to facilitate the take up of the technology and measurement infrastructure developed in the project by the measurement supply chain, an example of which is recounted in the case study, hosted in a new section of this website, ‘Calibration of the CNES and UKSA MicroCarb optical instrument’.  As described, a satellite-based validation method will be essential for ensuring long-term trust in the global emission reporting system used to track progress towards the goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement. Indeed, in December of that year, the MicroCarb micro-satellite concept was presented at the Paris Climate Change Conference (COP21) with a mission to map, on a global scale, sources and sinks of carbon dioxide (CO2), …

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The last few months are seen something of a flurry of papers related to MetEOC-4 published in peer-reviewed journals, each featuring innovative and impactful outcomes we encourage you to view and download. Four papers have been published so far this year out of a total of 15 to date. In addition, ahead of publication, the paper Traceability of surface longwave irradiance measurements to SI using the IRIS radiometers is available as a pre-print for rapid dissemination. Accessible papers freely viewable online are tabulated below. Dive in!   Lead author Title Journal Publication date Veronica Escober Ruiz A novel C-band radar-drone for forest canopy profile characterization International Journal of Remote Sensing 21 April 2023 Ilaria Cazzaniga AERONET-OC LWN uncertainties: revisited Journal of Atmospheric and …

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A year on from its initial public release, the NPL-developed CoMet toolkit has been used in several earth observation projects, including MetEOC, and recognised for the value it offers to the earth observation community. Environmental observations made by satellites and in-situ measurement networks provide data that forms the basis of scientific understanding of the state of the climate. Such datasets need to contain information about the associated uncertainties to be accepted as credible and reliable — the handling of which can be a complex and, potentially, error-prone process. Moreover, as multiple measurements are typically combined through processing chains, reliably handling this information can seem overly time-consuming for non-specialists.   A simpler way to store and propagate uncertainty and error-correlation information Metrological …

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Long term operation of network supporting the validation of satellite ocean colour observations contributing to the quantification of these natural ‘sinks’ of carbon. Marking the twentieth anniversary of the Ocean Colour component of the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET-OC), Frédéric Mélin, of MetEOC-4 External Funded Partner JRC, summarises ‘fruitful encounters’ between the AERONET-OC ocean colour network and MetEOC projects. But first, some background. An objective of the MetEOC series of projects is to develop satellite derived SI-traceable measurement methods to measure greenhouse gases emissions and carbon sinks. The context for that requirement is that knowledge of the amounts of greenhouse gases absorbed by such sinks will be a critical part of the equation for any workable net zero strategy. Currently, the earth’s oceans …

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Following a successful review by the European Space Agency, on 30 November 2022 the SHIPAS temperature measuring instrument developed by Research Centre Jülich and Wuppertal University, Germany was given the go-ahead to be included onboard a satellite scheduled to be launched into earth orbit in 2025. The high-resolution imaging instrument is capable of accurately measuring the temperature of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere, which are layers of the atmosphere sensitive to greenhouse gas concentrations and early indicators of global heating trends. Support for the mission is provided by the EU Horizon 2020 In-Orbit Demonstration and Validation (IOD/IOV) initiative, set up to test new technologies in orbit.  Approval means the SHIPAS instrument, which stands for Spatial Heterodyne Interferometer Performance Assessment in Space, …

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Three quarters through EMPIR MetEOC-4, the first in-person meeting during the project on 15 & 16 December at PTB, Berlin, proved a valuable and timely opportunity for the whole project team to share progress face-to-face. As well as presenting updates on developing metrological tools and likely uptake, the team also got the chance to view, up close, impressive new hardware in PTB’s historic basement labs. This fourth in the series of Metrology for Earth Observation and Climate (MetEOC) EMPIR projects — that supports climate observation communities by improving understanding of the drivers of climate change — was hosted at the birthplace of quantised thermal radiation physics. Indeed, PTB showed off hardware developed in the project, including a new type of lightweight …

MetEOC-4 month 27 progress meeting: a warm welcome from PTB over two cold days in Berlin Read More »

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New evidence suggests assumptions of tree size-to-mass scale-invariance is not well-justified for this kind of forest, which has wider implications for climate mitigation actions. UK forests could store almost double the amount of carbon than previous calculations suggest, with consequences for the understanding of carbon stocks and climate actions, according to a paper published today based on data produced in MetEOC. The paper, Laser scanning reveals potential underestimation of biomass carbon in temperate forest, published in the journal Ecological Solutions and Evidence presents new empirical evidence showing that the fundamental assumption of tree size-to-mass scale-invariance is not well-justified for this kind of forest. The article goes on to suggest that testing the underlying assumptions of allometric models more generally is an urgent priority …

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Implementing policies designed to fulfil Paris Agreement commitments will likely involve conspicuous demands for clear accountability for how decisions will be made. Such accountability will, in turn, demand a high bar for trustworthiness of data used as the basis of decisions. So, how can we be sure trusted climate data will be available in time to make a difference? In his opening address at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh on 6 November, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell asked governments to focus on a transformational shift to implementing the Paris Agreement and putting negotiations into concrete actions. With a call to action for principles of transparency and accountability to apply throughout the process, Mr Stiell added, “COP27 sets out a new …

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