Contact: Elaina Ford (eakf@bas.ac.uk)

This Community Workshop will bring together nationally and internationally recognised Earth Observation and in-situ monitoring Arctic experts. The aim is to strengthen the calibration and validation of remotely sensed products, and forecast model data assimilation within Copernicus.

Copernicus is the EU's environmental monitoring programme for planet Earth. It offers full, open and free-of-charge information services based on satellite, model forecasting and in-situ data. These are organised into 6 thematic Services, and an In-Situ Observing Component.

In-situ observations are critical, but at the present stage their integration into data products is limited. To address this challenge we need to understand how the observational research community can better contribute in-situ monitoring to enhance Copernicus products.

The issues associated with the better usage of in-situ observations needs an inclusive approach, involving a wide range of expertise. KEPLER, an EU H2020 project, kepler-polar.eu is a multi-partner initiative that has been tasked with preparing an end-to-end roadmap for Copernicus to deliver improved capacity for monitoring and forecasting in the Polar Regions. This Community Workshop brings together the expertise of KEPLER with other international experts. This workshop will contribute to the roadmap by identifying how we can better coordinate, integrate, and share in-situ observational data in order to enhance the products offered by the Copernicus Services.