Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/C508250/1
Post launch support of GERB - ensuring the delivery of data to the scientific community.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Dr PM Allan, STFC - Laboratories, RAL Space
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor JE Harries, Imperial College London, Physics
- Grant held at:
- STFC - Laboratories, RAL Space
- Science Area:
- Marine
- Earth
- Atmospheric
- Overall Classification:
- Atmospheric
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Science Topics:
- Land - Atmosphere Interactions
- Water In The Atmosphere
- Radiative Processes & Effects
- Large Scale Dynamics/Transport
- Ocean - Atmosphere Interact.
- Climate & Climate Change
- Abstract:
- The work to be undertaken is largely to implement changes to the GERB ground segment processing system that are necessary in order to generate the full range of required data products, to validate the new data products, and to deliver these to the scientific community along with all additional information (metadata) necessary in order for them to exploit the data. The work will be undertaken by the staff who have been working on GERB until now, thereby maintaining continuity of expertise. The first additional product that we will add to the GERB Ground Segment Processing System (GGSPS) is the so-called BARG data product that is being generated by colleagues at the Royal Belgian Meteorological Institute. They form part of the overall GERB ground segment and they already generate the standard flux products. They have developed an additional product that contains both the radiances and fluxes, corrected for the GERB instrument spatial response. These corrected radiances are not available through other means and are not being archived for long-term access. Hence there is a strong demand from the scientific community to have these products made available through the standard GGSPS archive. We will make the necessary modifications to the GGSPS to ingest, archive and disseminate these data products. The second product that we will develop are the monthly mean fluxes. The original specification for the GGSPS included the generation of basic monthly mean fluxes. This has not yet been done due to needing to work on more urgent issues due to the problems with the MSG-1 satellite, as detailed in the previous bid. In addition, there is a demand from the scientific community for data products that give clear sky fluxes - a more onerous task. We will develop the algorithms and software to generate the standard and clear-sky monthly mean fluxes and will incorporate these into the GGSPS so the products become a standard part of those generated by the GGSPS. We will also enhance the system monitoring so that GERB can be operated safely for longer periods than has been the case to date, thereby delivering more data to the scientific community. In addition to developing, testing and integrating the software to generate the new products, the new data products must be properly validated to ensure that they are giving scientifically meaningful results. We will add the validation of the new products to the regular validation performed on the current set of products. Finally, the GGSPS will be in operation for many years as four GERB instruments have been built. To ensure the system is sufficiently robust, we will conduct a system acceptance test and review. This is the best way to ensure that minimum future maintenance will be required.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/C508250/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- EO Programmes Pre FEC2
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- EO Enabling Fund
This grant award has a total value of £193,531
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Staff | Total - Equipment | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|
| £118,875 | £19,975 | £54,682 |
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