Project details
Website: https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/development-cams-global-fire-assimilation-system
Status: Ongoing
Project period: 2025–2028
Principal: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
Coordinating institution: NILU
Collaborators: IPMA - Instituto Portugues do mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal KCL - King's College London, UK
The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) is funded by the European Union and administered by European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
CAMS is a dedicated service within the Copernicus programme for providing services and data products to help understand European air quality and global atmospheric composition.
The CAMS2_64_bis project will support ECMWF to ensure the successful operation of the Global Fire Assimilation System (GFAS) and develop upgrades for improved accuracy up to 2028.
It will also provide daily input FRP products from the GOES and Himawari satellites and develop GFAS onwards to make best use of the fire radiative power (FRP) products from the latest polar orbiting satellites and the most relevant geostationary satellites for Europe.
The project will deliver four types of services:
- NRT provision of level-2 FRP products from three geostationary satellites on an FTP server
- Implementation of new GFAS developments and auxiliary data in the processing chain and git repository at ECMWF
- Flexible on-demand support to ECMWF
- Compilation of a report with plans for possible and recommended GFAS developments