Skip to content

CAMS2_64_bis: Development of the CAMS Global Fire Assimilation System

Project

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:

  1. NRT provision of level-2 FRP products from three geostationary satellites on an FTP server
  2. Implementation of new GFAS developments and auxiliary data in the processing chain and git repository at ECMWF
  3. Flexible on-demand support to ECMWF
  4. Compilation of a report with plans for possible and recommended GFAS developments

Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service Policy User Support (CAMS Policy User Support)

Project

Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) is funded by the European Union and administered by European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). CAMS is the dedicated service within the Copernicus programme for providing services and data products to help understand European air quality and global atmospheric composition.

NILU is part of a consortium of research organisations across Europe responsible for providing tools to help support decision and policy making in the management of air pollution episodes and reporting under European Directives.

In addition to providing tools, the project also creates an annual report documenting the air quality situation in Europe during the previous year. This report helps policy users with their responsibilities for national reporting under the European air quality directives.

The reports are available here.