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OAS institution Detail for ESACCI
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1450 |
| Name: |
ESA Climate Change Initiative |
| Native Name: |
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| Shortname: |
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| Acronym: |
ESACCI |
| Parent Institution: |
European Space Agency |
| Address: |
Via Galileo Galilei, Casella Postale 64 |
| City: |
Roma |
| State: |
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| Postal: |
00044 Frascati |
| Country: |
ITALY |
| Comments: |
The European Space Agency (ESA) has initiated a new programme, Global Monitoring of Essential Climate Variables (known for convenience as the ESA Climate Change Initiative) to provide an adequate, comprehensive, and timely response to the extremely challenging set of requirements for (highly stable) long-term satellite-based products for climate, that have been addressed to Space Agencies via the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS). It is exclusively concerned with addressing the explicit needs of UNFCCC. The initiative will implement a programme of work which ensures that the responsibilities and capabilities of ESA member states in addressing issues of climate change can be undertaken on a scale commensurate with the problem. It is based on the delivery of climate variables derived from satellite data sets (not just ESA but all sources via international collaboration) and includes all aspects of their availability including data acquisition, calibration and validation, long term algorithm maintenance, data curation and reprocessing as necessary, all within the context of an internationally agreed set of priorities. The ESA Climate Change Initiative also serves as a Regional Data Assembly Center for the Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST). |
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false |
| Metadata version: |
3 |
| Keydate: |
2011-01-25 16:37:22+00 |
| Editdate: |
2013-04-23 18:11:05+00 |