Research project CAMS-72
Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service
Copernicus, the European Union’s Earth observation programme provides services in different environmental themes embodying state of the planet Earth. The solar radiation services meet the needs of European and national policy development for the energy transition and they support with their open data policy public and commercial downstream services in planning, monitoring, efficiency improvements, and integration of renewable energies into the energy supply grids, targeting particularly the solar energy applications.
Research project CAMS-72 | |
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Duration | Januars 2019 until June 2021 |
Funded by | European Commission/European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts |
Project participants | - Deutsches Fernerkundungszentrum
- DLR Institut für Solarforschung
- Armines, Paris, Frankreich
- Finnisches Meteorologisches Institut (FMI),
- Transvalor S.A., Mougins Cedex, Frankreich
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DLR has led the development and implementation of solar radiation services in the pre-operational projects Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate (MACC) phases I to III in the formation of CAMS. DLR was awarded the lead for solar radiation services through CAMS-72 (2016-2018) which was continued from 2019-2021. This project was a continuation of the work started in the precursor projects with new aspects, data and new generation of satellites and the implementation of 2017 and 2018 development results.
The aim of the project was the provision of CAMS services for solar radiation, monitoring and quality control of services, further development of the services by R & D, and providing user support.
The objective is realized in collaboration with partners through several activities as follows:
- Provision of CAMS clear sky (McClear) and all sky (McRad) Radiation services, regular monitoring of input and output parameters to the services
- Support of the Ultraviolet (UV) radiation service by providing ground data and routinely evaluating the CAMS global UV services
- Service evolution by further exploring the possibility to provide a global scale service for all sky radiation.
- Monitoring the CAMS progress. Based on user requests and feedback and evaluation results, assessment of services from scientific and technical point of view and providing recommendations on improvements in inputs, algorithms and workflows.
- Specialised User support and perform expert user interaction
As a prime contractor, DLR is managing and coordinating the project. On the research and development part, DLR is carrying out the reception, archiving, processing of ground and satellite measurements and method development and evaluation studies. The DLR scientists are involved in the further development of the services encompassing the derivation of cloud physical parameters, further improvement of these algorithms and the use of cloud products in algorithms for the derivation of solar irradiance products. The integration of the Apollo next generation (Apollo-NG) algorithm (developed, tested and published by DLR) in CAMS-72 is foreseen.
Before the project, the CAMS solar radiation services included all-sky (clear sky and cloudy sky) radiation for Europe/Africa/Middle East in the field of view of Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) geostationary satellite instruments. The cloudy sky solar radiation services were extended to a global scale exploiting the observations from the instruments aboard third generation geostationary satellites.
