This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 640276.
Remedy 2: Ensuring sustained funding of the non-satellite observing system
Providing the resources to enable operationalizing the non-satellite observing system is key to the viability of the above remedy 1. Currently several funding agencies do not sufficiently recognize the importance of sustaining the non-satellite long-term observing system. The stakeholder communities that benefit from the provision of non-satellite reference data should also take the responsibility to provide continued funding support that enables the operators of the system to maintain it to ensure compliance with state-of-the-art quality specifications, and to increase the benefit/cost ratio by proper automation and operationalisation. This could be achieved, e.g., by including the provision of support to the non-satellite observing system in the mandate of relevant funding agencies. Without the perspective of sustained support, the system operators cannot engage in system maintenance and optimization.
Remedy 2 underpins remedy 1.
Increased long-term availability of continuous (where technically feasible) high-quality non-satellite data series, providing appropriate sampling of the atmosphere, a sufficient number of co-locations with satellite measurements and providing the possibility to bridge successive satellite missions.
- High
- Programmatic multi-year, multi-institution activity
- Less than 10 years
- Yes
- EU H2020 funding
- Copernicus funding
- National funding agencies
- National Meteorological Services
- WMO
- ESA, EUMETSAT or other space agency
- SMEs/industry
- National measurement institutes