HALO Workshops

3. HALO workshop 4. - 5. December 2006

The 3. HALO workshop was held at ECMWF in Reading on 4. - 5. December 2006.

Full presentations: (pdf format)

• 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

Presentations used during the discussions: (pdf format)

• H. de Groof: INSPIRE -- Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe -- Status and Outlook
• G. Manzella: MERSEA Data Service
• all: Infrastructure Discussion Material

Minutes of the discussions : (pdf format)

• Minutes of 3rd HALO Workshop (status: 18/01/2007)

Please find further information in the following documents: (pdf format)

• Workshop Announcement (including provisional Agenda, status: 01/12/2006)

• HALO Technical Recommendation Document, draft version (status: 20/10/2006)

• HALO Final Scientific Report, draft version (status: 23/10/2006)

• Background Information on the WMO Information System (WIS) by D. Schiessl (status: 24/09/2006)

2. HALO workshop 12. - 13. December 2005

The 2. HALO workshop has been held at ECMWF in Reading on 12. - 13. December 2005.

The first aim of the workshop was to review and finalise the document prepared by HALO in the past year specifying in detail the exchanges of data and information-products between the interacting parts of the GEMS, MERSEA, and GEOLAND Integrated Projects (IPs), and the Candidate Solutions for these exchanges. The document to be finalised in the workshop will be circulated two weeks before the workshop and will be the basis on which the HALO partners in the coming year will prepare Recommendations and an Implementation Plan for the transition to operations of the three Integrated Projects.

The second aim of the workshop is to identify the scope and content of a review (to be prepared by the HALO partners in 2006) of the likely scientific and technical upgrade paths of the interacting parts of the three IPs in the first few years after the transitions to operational status. Possible areas for consideration include:
(1) coordinated exploitation of new satellite missions for near-real-time monitoring of land cover, soil moisture, ocean salinity, and atmospheric transport
(2) interface modelling issues such as the dynamics of air-sea gas-exchanges, humidity and carbon dioxide fluxes over land, soil moisture changes, biomass burning, deposition of significant atmospheric constituents such as ozone and other pollutants on land vegetation and on the ocean.
(3) likely trends in the scope of the initial GMES services for users.

All information on the workshop, including a tentative agenda, a tentative list of participants, and information related to transportation and accomodation is available as pdf file.

If you plan to attend, please contact Johannes Kaiser <j.kaiser@ecmwf.int>.

Document to be reviewed: HALO_WP3X10_Candidates_V1.01_051130.pdf

Document with additional information: HALO_WP3X10_Guideline_V2.10_051122.pdf

Presentations:

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

A summary of the discussions: discussion-report.pdf.

1. HALO workshop 16. - 17. November 2004

The 1. HALO workshop was held at ECMWF in Reading on 16. - 17. November 2004.

The HALO workshop was a forum for all interested parties to discuss the 22.01.2007the issues of data acquisition, sharing and dissemination between the GMES Integrated Projects (IP).

Workshop participants

Presentations on GMES activities and data infrastructure issues were given at the first day of the workshop. The presentations of the workshop can be accessed by the following link:

Workshop presentations

The second workshop day was dedicated to working group discussion among the HALO Partners. The working groups were dedicated to the following topics:

• Interacting parts of Ocean - Atmosphere IPs (WG1)
• Interacting parts of Land - Atmosphere IPs (WG2)
• Future GMES demands on Ocean, Land and Atmosphere IPs (WG3)
  

Workshop discussion summary

Documents on the HALO SSA and reports on the integrated projects covered by HALO can be found at the Document Page

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