Authors
Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space, European Commission, Duchossois, Guy, Berdahl, Maria, Diehl, Thomas, Humbert, Angelika, Itkin, Polona, Jawak, Shridhar, Tietsche, Steffen, Garric, Gilles
- Catalogue number
- HV-05-24-675-EN-N
- Citation
- European Commission: Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space, Duchossois, G., Berdahl, M., Diehl, T., Humbert, A. et al., Copernicus polar roadmap for service evolution – Copernicus polar task force , Publications Office of the European Union, 2024, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2889/644108
- DOI
- https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2889/644108
- ISBN
- 978-92-68-20385-9
- Pages
- 68
- Published in
- Belgium
- Themes
- Scientific and technical research , Environment — Ecology
Table of Contents
- Executive summary 10
- List of acronyms 12
- Introduction 16
- Copernicus Marine Service 18
- Policy, description and current status 18
- Policy relevance 18
- Description and status 18
- Gaps and limitations 18
- The relevance of observations for system evolution 18
- Description of floating ice 18
- Boosting the capacity of the service 19
- Southern Ocean 19
- Recommendations 20
- Improved observational products 20
- Model and assimilation enhancements 20
- Enhanced product lines from forecasting and reanalysis 20
- Copernicus Climate Change Service 22
- Background and policy relevance 22
- Current portfolio 22
- Gaps and limitations 23
- Copernicus space observations 23
- In-situ observations 23
- Climate monitoring 23
- Reanalysis developments 23
- Climate predictions and projections 24
- Recommendations 24
- Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service 26
- Background and policy relevance 26
- Portfolio overview 26
- Wildfires 26
- Black carbon 26
- Stratospheric ozone 27
- Methane 27
- Gaps and limitations 27
- Wildfires 27
- Black carbon 28
- Ozone 28
- CH4 and CO2 28
- Recommendations 28
- Copernicus Emergency Management Service 30
- Background 30
- Policy relevance 30
- Status/portfolio overview 30
- On-demand mapping 31
- CEMS data requirements 31
- Recommendations 32
- Gaps, limitations and recommendations for in situ data in the Copernicus Emergency Management Service 32
- Copernicus Land Monitoring Service 34
- Background and policy perspectives 34
- Gaps and limitations 34
- Recommendations 34
- Recommendations for extending the service 35
- Recommendations to increase service availability 35
- European Ground Motion Service 35
- Background and policy relevance 35
- Current status/portfolio overview 36
- Gaps and limitations 36
- Recommendations 38
- Antarctica 40
- Key user requirements for the Copernicus Antarctic portfolio 41
- Practical aspects of data visualisation 42
- Cross-cutting topic: permafrost 43
- Background and policy relevance 43
- Portfolio overview 44
- Gaps and limitations 44
- Recommendations 44
- Outreach 46
- Copernicus Arctic Hub 47
- International collaboration 47
- Observations 49
- Background 49
- Gaps and limitations 51
- General recommendations and opportunities 51
- Action to be taken immediately 52
- Conclusions and recommendations to the European Commission for a robust evolution of Copernicus services in the polar domain 56
- References 58
- Annex I: Polar Task Force survey questionnaire - analysis and synthesis of replies 59
