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METOP GOME-2 - Tropospheric Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) - Global

The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) instrument continues the long-term monitoring of atmospheric trace gas constituents started with GOME / ERS-2 and SCIAMACHY / Envisat. Currently, there are three GOME-2 instruments operating on board EUMETSAT's Meteorological Operational satellites MetOp-A, -B, and -C, launched in October 2006, September 2012, and November 2018, respectively. GOME-2 can measure a range of atmospheric trace constituents, with the emphasis on global ozone distributions. Furthermore, cloud properties and intensities of ultraviolet radiation are retrieved. These data are crucial for monitoring the atmospheric composition and the detection of pollutants. DLR generates operational GOME-2 / MetOp level 2 products in the framework of EUMETSAT's Satellite Application Facility on Atmospheric Chemistry Monitoring (AC-SAF). GOME-2 near-real-time products are available already two hours after sensing. The operational NO2 total column products are generated using the algorithm GDP (GOME Data Processor) version 4.x integrated into the UPAS (Universal Processor for UV / VIS Atmospheric Spectrometers) processor for generating level 2 trace gas and cloud products. The operational NO2 tropospheric column products are generated using the algorithm GDP (GOME Data Processor) version 4.x for NO2 [Valks et al. (2011)] integrated into the UPAS (Universal Processor for UV / VIS Atmospheric Spectrometers) processor for generating level 2 trace gas and cloud products. The total NO2 column is retrieved from GOME solar back-scattered measurements in the visible wavelength region using the DOAS method. An additional algorithm is applied to derive the tropospheric NO2 column: after subtracting the estimated stratospheric component from the total column, the tropospheric NO2 column is determined using an air mass factor based on monthly climatological NO2 profiles from the MOZART-2 model. For more details please refer to relevant peer-review papers listed on the GOME and GOME-2 documentation pages: https://atmos.eoc.dlr.de/app/docs/

METOP GOME-2 - Cloud Top Pressure (CTP) - Global

The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) instrument continues the long-term monitoring of atmospheric trace gas constituents started with GOME / ERS-2 and SCIAMACHY / Envisat. Currently, there are three GOME-2 instruments operating on board EUMETSAT's Meteorological Operational satellites MetOp-A, -B and -C, launched in October 2006, September 2012, and November 2018, respectively. GOME-2 can measure a range of atmospheric trace constituents, with the emphasis on global ozone distributions. Furthermore, cloud properties and intensities of ultraviolet radiation are retrieved. These data are crucial for monitoring the atmospheric composition and the detection of pollutants. DLR generates operational GOME-2 / MetOp level 2 products in the framework of EUMETSAT's Satellite Application Facility on Atmospheric Chemistry Monitoring (AC-SAF). GOME-2 near-real-time products are available already two hours after sensing. OCRA (Optical Cloud Recognition Algorithm) and ROCINN (Retrieval of Cloud Information using Neural Networks) are used for retrieving the following geophysical cloud properties from GOME and GOME-2 data: cloud fraction (cloud cover), cloud-top pressure (cloud-top height), and cloud optical thickness (cloud-top albedo). OCRA is an optical sensor cloud detection algorithm that uses the PMD devices on GOME / GOME-2 to deliver cloud fractions for GOME / GOME-2 scenes. ROCINN takes the OCRA cloud fraction as input and uses a neural network training scheme to invert GOME / GOME-2 reflectivities in and around the O2-A band. VLIDORT [Spurr (2006)] templates of reflectances based on full polarization scattering of light are used to train the neural network. ROCINN retrieves cloud-top pressure and cloud-top albedo. The cloud-top pressure for GOME scenes is derived from the cloud-top height provided by ROCINN and an appropriate pressure profile. For more details please refer to relevant peer-review papers listed on the GOME and GOME-2 documentation pages: https://atmos.eoc.dlr.de/app/docs/

Human influences on forests in southern Ethiopia: the case of Shashemane-Munessa-forest

Especially during the last decades, the natural forests of Ethiopia have been heavily disturbed by human activities. Some forests have been totally cleared and converted into fields for agricultural use, other suffered from different influences, such as heavy grazing and selective logging. The ongoing research in the Shashemane-Munessa-study area (Gu 406/8-1,2) showed clearly that, in spite of interdiction and control, forests continue to be cleared and degraded. However, it is not yet sufficiently known, how and why these processes are still going on. Growing population pressure and economic constraints for the people living in and around the forests contribute to the actual situation but allow no final answers to the complex situation. Concerning a sustainable management of the forests there is to no solid basis for recommendations from the socioeconomic and socio-cultural view. Therefore, a comprehensive analysis of the traditional needs and forms of forest use, including all forest products, is necessary. The objective of this project is, to achieve this basis by carrying out intensive field observations, the consultation of aerial photographs, satellite imagery and above all semi-structured interviews with the population in the study area in order to contribute to the recommendations for a sustainable use of the Munessa Shasemane forests.

Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI)

The Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative, or NEESPI, is a currently active, yet strategically evolving program of internationally-supported Earth systems science research, which has as its foci issues in northern Eurasia that are relevant to regional and Global scientific and decision-making communities (see NEESPI Mission Statement). This part of the globe is undergoing significant changes - particularly those changes associated with a rapidly warming climate in this region and with important changes in governmental structures since the early 1990s and their associated influences on land use and the environment across this broad expanse. How this carbon-rich, cold region component of the Earth system functions as a regional entity and interacts with and feeds back to the greater Global system is to a large extent unknown. Thus, the capability to predict future changes that may be expected to occur within this region and the consequences of those changes with any acceptable accuracy is currently uncertain. One of the reasons for this lack of regional Earth system understanding is the relative paucity of well-coordinated, multidisciplinary and integrating studies of the critical physical and biological systems. By establishing a large-scale, multidisciplinary program of funded research, NEESPI is aimed at developing an enhanced understanding of the interactions between the ecosystem, atmosphere, and human dynamics in northern Eurasia. Specifically, the NEESPI strives to understand how the land ecosystems and continental water dynamics in northern Eurasia interact with and alter the climatic system, biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the Earth. The contemporaneous changes in climate and land use are impacting the biological, chemical, and physical functions of the northern Eurasia, but little data and fewer models are available that can be used to understand the current status of this expansive regional system, much less the influence of the northern Eurasia region on the Global climate. NEESPI seeks to secure the necessary financial and related institutional support from an international cadre of sponsors for developing a viable understanding of the functioning of northern Eurasia and the impacts of extant changes on the regional and Earth systems. Many types of ground and integrative (e.g., satellite; GIS) data will be needed and many models must be applied, adapted or developed for properly understanding the functioning of this cold and diverse regional system. Mechanisms for obtaining the requisite data sets and models and sharing them among the participating scientists are essential and require international and active governmental participation. (abridged text)

Development of an integrated forest carbon monitoring system with field sampling and remote sensing for tropical forests in Indonesia

Forests play a relevant role in mitigation of climate change. A major issue, however, is the scientifically well founded, transparent and verifyable monitoring of achievements in forest carbon sequestration through reduction of deforestation and forest degradation, and through fostering sustainable forest management. Monitoring is particularly difficult in diverse and inaccessible humid tropical forest areas. The proposed research will contribute to the improvement of forest carbon monitoring under the challenging conditions of humid tropical forests. Sample based field observations and model based biomass predictions will be linked to area-wide satellite remote sensing imagery (RapidEye) and to strip samples of LiDAR imagery. Techniques of linking these data sources will be further developed and analysed with respect to (1) precision of carbon estimation and (2) accuracy of carbon regionalization. The proposed project implies research on methodological improvements of both sample based forest inventories (resampling techniques for biomass, imputation of non-response) and remote sensing application to forest monitoring (regionalization, sample based application of LiDAR data). At the core of this research is the analysis of the error variance components that each data source brings into the system. Such error analysis will allow identifying optimal resource allocation for the efficient improvement of forest carbon monitoring systems.

Schwerpunktprogramm (SPP) 1158: Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas; Bereich Infrastruktur - Antarktisforschung mit vergleichenden Untersuchungen in arktischen Eisgebieten, Einflusss von Umweltveränderungen auf antarktisches Phytoplankton untersucht mit Hilfe eines synergistischen multi- und hyper-spektralen Satellitendatenansatzes

Klimamodelle sagen voraus, dass sich in naher Zukunft im Antarktischen Ozean signifikant die Temperatur und der PH-Wert ändern werden, bedingt durch den Anstieg der Konzentrationen troposphärischer Treibhausgase und vor allem durch den erhöhten Kohlenstoffdioxidausstoß aus fossilen Brennstoffen. Solche Änderungen wirken sich auf die Zusammensetzung des Phytoplanktons aus und damit auch auf die Stoffkreisläufe wichtiger Elemente (Kohlenstoff, Stickstoff, usw.). Ziel dieses interdisziplinären Projektes ist die genauere Bestimmung der räumlichen und zeitlichen Variabilität der Biomasse von unterschiedlichen Phytoplanktontypen im Antarktischen Ozean. Einerseits wird hiermit das Verständnis der Rolle des antarktischen Phytoplanktons für das Ökosystem vertieft und andererseits deren Beitrag für den globalen Kohlenstoffzyklus genauer quantifiziert. Durch die einzigartige Kombination von Satellitendaten zweier unterschiedlicher Instrumententypen soll die Konzentration verschiedener Phytoplankton-Typen im Antarktischen Ozean zum ersten Mal mit umfassender zeitlicher und räumlicher Abdeckung bestimmt werden. Die Gesamtbiomasse wird durch eine an die Antarktis angepasste Prozessierung mit Hilfe multispektraler Satellitenmessdaten berechnet. Der Anteil wesentlicher Phytoplanktontypen an der Gesamtbiomasse wird anhand der Auswertung charakteristischer Absorptionsstrukturen von hyperspektralen Messdaten (PhytoDOAS-Methode) ermittelt. Somit soll ein synergetisches Produkt aus sich ergänzenden Informationen multi- und hyperspektraler Satelliteninstrumente entwickelt werden, das auf ähnliche Satelliteninstrumente, deren Messungen in naher Zukunft starten, übertragbar sein wird. Damit kann dann ein Datensatz über die Verteilung von Phytoplanktontypen über Dekaden erstellt werden. Mit dem im Projekt entstehenden Datensatz über die Verteilung der Phytoplanktontypen soll deren Variabilität und Korrelation mit sich ändernden Umweltfaktoren im Antarktischen Ozean in den vergangenen untersucht werden. Darüber hinaus soll unser Datensatz genutzt werden, zur Verbesserung und Evaluierung eines Ökosystem-Models, welches die Biogeographie verschiedener Phytoplanktontypen durch Parametrisierung physiologischer Eigenschaften an ein Ozeanzirkulatonsmodell errechnet. Mit Hilfe des Langzeitdatensatz und dem damit verbundenen Wissen über die Variabilität der Phytoplanktontypen, wird ein Fundament geschaffen, um den Einfluss der Klimaveränderungen im Antarktischen Ozean zu bemessen.

Schwerpunktprogramm (SPP) 1294: Bereich Infrastruktur - Atmospheric and Earth system research with the 'High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft' (HALO), Langwelliger Strahlungsantrieb durch Aerosol-Wolken-Wechselwirkungen: Satelliten und Klimamodelle im Vergleich zu HALO

Der Strahlungsantrieb durch anthropogene Aerosole aufgrund von Aerosol-Wolken-Wechselwirkungen ist die Hauptunsicherheit bezüglich des Antriebs des Klimawandels. Für Flüssigwasserwolken, die den Strahlungsantrieb im solaren (kurzwelligen) Spektrum dominieren, konnten mittlerweile einige Fortschritte in der Quantifizierung erzielt werden. Im Gegensatz dazu gibt es für den Strahlungsantrieb im langwelligen (terrestrischen) Spektralbereich nur sehr grobe Abschätzungen von Klimamodellen. In Vorarbeiten haben wir einen Vorschlag entwickelt, wir aktive Fernerkundung zur Charakterisierung von Eiskristallkonzentrationen und Aerosol benutzt werden könnte, um eine beobachtungsbasierte Abschätzung des Strahlungsantriebs durch Aerosol-Wolken-Wechselwirkungen im langwelligen Spektrum zu ermöglichen. Allerdings sind die Satellitendaten höchst unsicher und benötigen eine Validierung mit Referenzdaten. In FLASH wird vorgeschlagen, (i) die Satelliten-abgeleitete Eiskristallkonzentration sowie ihre Sensitivität bezüglich Temperatur, Vertikalwind und Aerosolbedingungen mit den neuen In-situ-Daten von HALO zu validieren bzw. evaluieren, (ii) die Ableitung der Eiskristallkonzentration vom Satelliten mit der von Lidar und Radar an Bord von HALO zu verifizieren, (iii) Klimamodelle zu evaluieren und zur Interpretation der statistischen Relationen zu benutzen, und (iv) schließlich eine Abschätzung des Strahlungsantriebs durch Aerosol-Wolken-Wechselwirkungen und seines Unsicherheitsbereichs zu erarbeiten. Die Rolle von FLASH im SPP 1294 ist es, die vorhandenen Daten auszuwerten und mit den Daten geplanter Kampagnen in integrierender Weise zu arbeiten mit dem Ziel, eine bessere Abschätzung des Aerosol-Wolken-Strahlungsantriebs zu erreichen, neue innovative Satellitendaten zu validieren, und die relevanten Parametrisierungen in Klimamodellen zu evaluieren und zu verbessern.

Natural Forest Management in Caracarai, Roraima, Brazil

Objectives: Sustainable management of tropical moist forests through private forest owners will become increasingly important. Media report that in Brazil, particularly in Amazonia, approx. 80 percent of the timber harvested is from illegal sources. Private management of forests according to internationally acknowledged standards offers an opportunity to significantly lower the portion of illegally cut timber. Moreover, it contributes significantly to the conservation of the Amazon forest. Private forest owners show a clear long-term commitment towards the implementation of management standards according that is ecologically compatible, socially acceptable and economically viable. The project area, a pristine forest in legal Amazonia in the transition zone between moist tropical forests and savannas (cerrado), is extremely diverse in floristic and faunistic terms. The institute cooperates with the private forest owner. Main tasks are to document the faunistic and floristic diversity, to calculate the Annual Allowable Cut and to elaborate concepts for site-specific silviculture. Results: To date (Oct. 2006) the following activities were started: - a comprehensive inventory system for planning at the FMU-level has been successfully introduced; - the inventory system for the annual coupe area has been designed and data for the first coupe are being processed; - the annual allowable cut is currently calculated based on the results of the above described inventories; - two fauna surveys are completed; one focusing on large mammals and one on the avi-fauna. A long-term monitoring concept to assess the influence of forest management on the faunistic diversity is currently under development; - forest zoning is completed applying terrestrial surveys and interpreting high-resolution satellite images; - a study on the use of Bethollethia excelsa-fruits (Brazil nuts) is currently implemented; - a study on timber properties of lesser known species is currently implemented.

Forschergruppe (FOR) 1740: Ein neuer Ansatz für verbesserte Abschätzungen des atlantischen Frischwasserhaushalts und von Frischwassertransporten als Teil des globalen Wasserkreislaufs, The Atmospheric Side of the Freshwater Budget

The focus of this project is to analyse the observed surface freshwater fluxes through improved estimates of evaporation and precipitation and their individual error characteristics in the HOAPS climatology and its ground validation in climate-related hotspots of the Atlantic Ocean. To enable that in a consistent manner we propose to establish an error characterization of the HOAPS evaporation data by triple collocations with ship and buoy measurements and between individual satellites and to improve the error characterization of the HOAPS precipitation by analysing available shipboard disdrometer data using point to area statistics. After these improvements, an analysis of the spatio-temporal variability of the surface fresh water balance E-P over the Atlantic Ocean is planned, especially with respect to the Hadley circulation and the hotspot regions of interest to related WPs. Also the atmospheric water transport shall be analysed in order to find the source or target region of local fresh water imbalances. And finally, a consistent inter-comparison of the upcoming global ocean surface salinity fields from SMOS with freshwater fluxes from the HOAPS climatology is proposed.

DIGSTER - Map and Go (Digital Satellite Based Terrain Model) - User Requirements

The project DIGSTER - Map and Go (Digital Based Terrain Mapping) aims at the technical aspects of digital terrrain mapping. For many questions in administration, planning and expertise terrrain mappings are indispensable. The whole process starting with the data acquisition in the field and ending with map products will be digitally performed by the system. Therefore, a platform appropriate for the use in the field (PDA) is combined with technologies from the disciplines of satellite navigation, remote sensing, communication, and mobile geoinformation systems. For DIGSTER a lot of practical applications already exist in connection with policies and directives on the national and also European level.

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