STSE Water Cycle Multi-mission Observation Strategy for the Mediterranean (WACMOS-MED)

Projects

Space agency ESA

Partners: Estellus, Paris, France, Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien), Vienna, Austria, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (LMD-CNRS), Palaiseau Cedex, France, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto di Ricerca per la Protezione Idrogeologica (CNR), Perugia, Italy, University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Project email: luca.brocca (at) irpi.cnr.it

01/09/2015 - 30/08/2017

Involved offices: Perugia

Internal contact person: Luca Brocca

Email: luca.brocca@cnr.it

Background

Monitoring the water cycle from satellite observations is one of the major goals of the EO community and closing the water budget has been a long-standing objective of international programs. After years of hard work, calibrating satellite data, improving inversion techniques, and facilitating the coherency of retrievals, it is admitted that the water cycle budget can now be closed.

Purpose

WACMOS-MED project has two main objectives: 1) study/improve the water budget at a regional level from EO data, and 2) to support the Hydrological cycle in the Mediterranean Experiment (HYMEX) initiative to better monitor the water cycle in the Mediterranean region.

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