Public HALO Documents

HALO Final Report

• Hollingsworth, A. (2007) Final Activity Report & Guide to the Scientific and Technical Annexes (PDF)

• Annex 1: Kaiser, J.W., A. Hollingsworth, J.-C. Calvet, Y. Desaubies, J. Flemming, M. Leroy, and M. Tinz (2007) HALO Final Technical Report (PDF)

• Annex 2: Kaiser, J.W., A. Hollingsworth, J.-C. Calvet, Y. Desaubies, J. Flemming, M. Leroy, and M. Tinz (2007) HALO Final Scientific Report (PDF)

• Annex 3: Levy, F., J.-M. Pechinot, C. Guillo (2007) Recommendations for HALO Infrastructure (WP3200, WP3300) (PDF)

HALO Reports

1. Flemming, J., A. Hollingsworth, J-N. Thepaut, R. Engelen, A. Dethof, J-J. Morcrette, H. Hersbach, P. Viterbo, S. Lafont, M. Fuentes, J. Hodkinson, S. Abdalla (2004) E.C.M.W.F.’s data and products for GMES (PDF)

2. Flemming, J., Y. Desaubies, A. Oschlies, M. Bell (2004) MERSEA data and products for GMES (PDF)

3. Flemming, J., M. Tinz, M. Leroy, J.-C. Calvet (2004) GEOLAND data and products for GMES (PDF)

4. Flemming, J., J.-N. Thepaut, R. Engelen, A. Dethof, J.-J. Morcrette, A. Hollingsworth (2004) GEMS data and products for GMES (PDF)

5. Flemming J., T. Hollingsworth, P. Viterbo, M. Bell (2004) Carbon theme in GMES (PDF)

6. Flemming, J., T. Hollingsworth, and HALO partners (2005) Interacting parts Of GEMS, MERSEA and geoland: Data, products and infra-structure (PDF)

7. Flemming, J. (2005) Emissions for GEMS (Biomass burning) (PDF)

8. Kaiser, J.W., M.G. Schultz, M. Sofiev, J. Flemming, S. Serrar, O. Boucher, A. Hollingsworth (2005) Global Assimilation of Wildfire Emissions for GEMS (PDF)

9. Kaiser, J.W., M.G. Schultz, J.-M. Gregoire, C. Textor, M. Sofiev, J. Flemming, E. Bartholome, M. Leroy, R.J. Engelen, A. Hollingsworth (2006) Observation requirements for global biomass burning emission monitoring, Proc. of The 2006 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt (PDF)

10. Kaiser, J.W., A. Hollingsworth, J.-C. Calvet, Y. Desaubies, J. Flemming, M. Leroy, and M. Tinz (2007) HALO Final Technical Report (PDF)

11. Kaiser, J.W., A. Hollingsworth, J.-C. Calvet, Y. Desaubies, J. Flemming, M. Leroy, and M. Tinz (2007) HALO Final Scientific Report (PDF)

12. Levy, F., J. -M. Pechinot (2005) HALO WP 3210/3310 “Infrastructure candidate solutions overview” (PDF)

13. Levy, F., J.-M. Pechinot, C. Guillo (2007) Recommendations for HALO Infrastructure (WP3200, WP3300) (PDF)

14. Pechinot, J.-M., F. Levy, J. Flemming, J. Kaiser (2005) HALO Guideline Harmonised coordination of the Atmosphere, Land and Ocean integrated projects of the GMES backbone (WP 3210 and 3310) (PDF)

15. Textor, C., M.G. Schultz, J.W. Kaiser, J. Flemming, C. Granier, T. Hollingsworth (2006) Expression of Interest for Listing of a European Project on a Global Fire Assimilation System (PDF)

HALO Presentations and Poster

1st HALO Workshop, November 2004

Title	MB	Name	Affiliation
Status of GMES	0.2	Peter Breger	EC-DG RTD
GEMS (Atmosphere IP) and HALO	1.7	Tony Hollingsworth	ECMWF
MERSEA (Ocean IP) and HALO	1.8	Yves Desaubies	IFREMER
Carbo-Ocean Project	2.3	Andrew Watson	University of East Anglia
Geolands (Land IP) Core Service Biogeophysical Parameters and HALO	2.3	Marc Leroy	Medias-France-
Geolands (Land IP) Observatory on Natural Carbon and HALO	1.8	Jean-Christophe Calvet	Meteo France
Status of GMES Service Elements (GSE)	5.1	Luigi Fusco	ESA
PROMOTE - GSE of the atmosphere theme	2.2	Henk Eskes	KNMI
Status of HALO	0.2	Johannes Flemming	ECMWF
Data transfer and dissemination in the meteorological community		Baudouin Raoult	ECMWF
Overview of PREVIEW (Risk IP)	3.8	François Gerard	Meteo France
Software solutions for exchange of large environmental data sets	4.3	Keith Haines	NERC-ESSC
GRID technology and earth-science applications	2.2	Luigi Fusco	ESA

2nd HALO Workshop, December 2005

Short Title	MB	Name	Affiliation
GEMS Overview	1.8	Tony Hollingsworth	ECMWF
MERSEA Overview	1.3	Yves Desaubies	IFREMER
GEOLAND Overview	0.3	Marc Leroy	MEDIAS-F
Wildfires in GEMS	0.9	Johannes Kaiser	ECMWF
Candidate Solution Proposal	2.1	Fabrice Levy, Jean-Marc Pechinot	ASTRIUM, ALCATEL
HALO Guideline Overview	0.5	Johannes Kaiser	ECMWF
GMES Status	0.4	Peter Breger	EC
GSE	3.8	Claus Zehner	ESA
EUMETCast	0.5	Mike Williams	EUMETSAT
Air-Sea Fluxes	0.6	A. Bentamy	IFREMER
CARBOOCEAN	0.5	Nicolas Dittert	U. Bremen

Wildfire Session at GEMS Annual Assembly, February 2006

see wildfire session documentation on the GEMS homepage

HALO Working Meeting, July 2006

3rd HALO Workshop, December 2006

• P. Breger: Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
• C. Zehner: GMES Services
• A. Hollingsworth:GEMS -- Global Earth-system Monitoring using Space and in-situ data
• Y. Desaubies: MERSEA -- Marine Environment and Security for the European Area
• M. Leroy: GEOLAND outlook
• D. Schiessl: WMO Information System (WIS)
• B. Raoult: SIMDAT (to be provided in the future)
• M. Williams: EUMETCast
• J. Kaiser: Background to Proposal of Our Industrial Partners: HALO and Infrastructure Requirements for the GMES Backbone
• JM. Pechinot, F. Levy & C. Guillo: Infrastructure Candidate Solutions
• Y. Desaubies: Scientific recommendations Ocean - Atmosphere
• JC. Calvet: Scientific recommendations Land - Atmosphere: Biomass Estimates
• J. Kaiser: Scientific recommendations Land - Atmosphere: Wildfires / Biomass Burning
• H. de Groof: INSPIRE -- Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe -- Status and Outlook
• G. Manzella: MERSEA Data Service
• all: Infrastructure Discussion Material

IGBP-Quest Fire Workshop, Exeter, October, 2005

• Kaiser et al.: Wildfire Emission Modelling in GEMS

ACCENT Workshop, Toulouse, December 2005

• Kaiser et al.: HALO and Wildfires in GEMS

ETH Zurich, October 2006

• Kaiser et al.: Satellite Observation Usage for Global Biomass Burning Emission Monitoring in GMES

EUMETSAT 2006 Meteorological Satellite Conference, Helsinki, June 2006

• Kaiser et al.: Observation Requirements for Global Biomass Burning Emission Monitoring

GOLD/GOFC Geostationary Fire Workshop, Darmstadt, December 2006

• Kaiser & Schultz: Recommendations for a Global Fire Assimilation System (GFAS) in GEMS

MERSEA Annual Meeting, London, February 2007

• Kaiser et al: HALO: Harmonised Atmosphere Land Ocean for GMES (poster)

DG INFSO Workshop "Service oriented architectures in support of a Shared Environmental Information Space" , Frascati, April 2007

• Kaiser & Hollingsworth: HALO Technical Recommendations for GMES
• Aubert & Raoult: SIMDAT Project Meteorologiy Activity, Elements for building the WIS

European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, April 2007

• Kaiser et al: Global Fire Emission Modelling for Atmospheric Composition and Land Cover Monitoring

British National Space Centre (BNSC), London, 3 December 2007

• Kaiser et al: HALO Recommendations for GMES

Miscellaneous HALO Documentation

• Description of Work

• Report from 1st HALO Workshop

• Report from 2nd HALO Workshop

• Report from 3rd HALO Workshop

• D. Schiessl, Background Information on the WMO Information System (WIS) (2007)

• WMO Bulletin 55(4) on the WIS