GEOWOW project boosts access to Earth observation data
Zsoter, Ervin ; Mladek, Richard ; Pappenberger, Florian ; Richardson, David ; Hopsch, Susanna ; Keller, Julia ; Swinbank, Richard ; Buchanan, Piers ; Arbogast, Philippe ; Joly, Bruno
GEOWOW (GEOSS interoperability for Weather, Ocean and Water) was an EU-funded project that improved Earth Observation data discovery, accessibility and exploitability. It was coordinated by the European Space Agency (ESA). The project evolved the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) in the areas of Weather, Ocean Ecosystems and Water. Particular emphasis was placed on supporting multi-disciplinary approaches and interoperability across different domains, including the use of weather forecast ensembles in hydrological applications. The weather community in GEOWOW, including the UK Met Office, Météo-France, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and ECMWF (as work package leader), made major contributions to the success of GEOWOW, in particular by enhancing the content and use of the TIGGE forecast archive (Box A). Key achievements include:
? The creation of the TIGGE-LAM (limited-area model) archive for Europe to improve research relating to regional ensemble forecasts of high-impact weather<br>? The development of real-time products for highimpact weather and tropical cyclone track forecasts combining predictions from multiple TIGGE ensembles for forecasters as part of the WMO Severe Weather Forecasting Demonstration Project (SWFDP - Box B)<br>? A multidisciplinary showcase project to demonstrate the interoperable use of weather and water data in GEOWOW by generating discharge forecasts from TIGGE model inputs and providing them together with observations through a web service.<br>In this article, we summarise the main outcomes of the weather-related work carried out during the three-year project, which ended in August 2014.
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