WMO SPACE PROGRAMME Selected Reference Documents

Dossier on the Space-based component of the GOS and related information

New issue of the Dossier on the Space-based Component of the Global Observing System (GOS-2010) for download. The dossier, updated in January 2010, includes:

• Introduction
• Volume 1: Satellite programme description
• Volume 2: Earth Observation satellites and their instruments
• Volume 3: Gap Analysis in the space-based component of the GOS
• Volume 4: Estimated performance of products from typical instruments
• Volume 5: Compliance analysis of potential produt performance with user requirements
  

Beware: This set of documents is available in a folder in compressed form (zipped) because of its large volume (13 MB). Do not open the folder on-line but rather download it and save it on your computer. Then the five volumes need to be extracted together (Use "Extract all files") and kept in a common folder without changing the file names in order to preserve the hyperlinks among them. Total size, uncompressed, is 43 MB.

The Dossier on the space-based GOS is maintained by WMO with input from all contributing space agencies in the framework of CGMS. This work is also coordinated with the European Space Agency's effort to maintain the Earth Observation Handbook on behalf of CEOS.
On line information on EO missions is also available on the ESA Earth Observation portal.

Project Documents

• IGDDS Implementation Plan
• IGDDS Implementation Group Terms of Reference
• IGDDS: Note on IGDDS and its relations to WIS
• IGDDS DVB-S Operators Standards
• GSICS Implementation Plan
• RARS Implementation Group Terms of Reference
• RARS Operators Standards
• Project Plan for the Extension of RARS to Advanced Sounders
• SCOPE-CM Implementation Plan

Strategy Documents

• SAT-ST-01, WMO Space Programme Strategy
• SAT-ST-02, WMO Space Programme Implementation Plan 2004-2007
• SAT-ST-03, Terms of reference, Consultative Meetings on high-level policy on satellite matters
• SAT-ST-04, Guidelines for observational data from R&D sat. missions
• SAT-ST-05, Contribution to the Space-Based component of the GOS
• SAT-ST-06, WMO Space Programme Implementation Plan 2008-2011
• SAT-ST-07, Guidelines to WMO for facilitating transition of relevant R&D missions or instruments to operational status
• SAT-ST-08, Virtual Laboratory Management Group Terms of reference
• SAT-ST-09, Five-year strategy for the Virtual Laboratory for training in sat. met.

Rolling Requirements Review and Statements of Guidance

See dedicated page "RRR and SOG"

Other WMO Space Programme reports and articles

• "RARS Global Network Status and Plans", J. Lafeuille and the RARS Implementation Group, 17th International TOVS Study Conference, Monterey, CA, 14-20 April 2010. (Poster)
  
  

• "Space and climate change" (2009), Contribution from WMO and GCOS to the 52nd session of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), 3-12 June 2009.
  
  

• "Fifty years of cooperation in satellite meteorology", J. Lafeuille, presentation given on 2 November 2009 at SSEC, Madison, Wisconsin for the 50th anniversary of the launch of Explorer-VII in October 1959.
  
  
• J. Lafeuille and D.E. Hinsman, (2007) Re-designing the Space-based Global Observing System, Joint 2007 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference and 15th AMS Satellite Meteorology & Oceanography Conference, Amsterdam, 24-28 September 2007.
  
  
• M. Dumont, J. Lafeuille, A. Soerensen, (2006) A global network of Regional ATOVS Retransmission Services (RARS), 15th International TOVS Study Conference, Maratea, 4-10 October 2006.
  
  

Space Weather

See dedicated page on "Space Weather"

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