ESA-JAXA Pre-Launch EarthCARE
Science and Validation Workshop
13 – 17 November 2023 | ESA-ESRIN, Frascati (Rome), Italy

ESA Validation Logistics

Content

Upcoming activities and events
Scientific Validation Implementation plan
ESA validation rehearsal
Validation support tools

ESA-JAXA Pre-Launch EarthCARE Science and Validation Workshop | 13 – 17 November 2023 | ESA-ESRIN, Frascati (Rome), Italy

Upcoming validation activities and events
ESA-JAXA Prelaunch
EarthCARE
Science andValidation
Workshop
Nov2023

Dec2023

Rehearsalguideline
for ESA Pisand CoIs

EarthCARE
ScientificValidation
Implementation
Plan 2.0

ESA
validation
rehearsal
review (21Mar 2024)

Jan2024

Mar2024

Feb2024

ESA
validation
rehearsal(2 weeks)

CPR
check
out

ATLID
check
out

BBR
check
out

Apr2024

May2024

LAUN
C
H

MSI
check
out

Jun2024

TargetreleaseL1 datato ECVTJul2024

Aug2024

Airborne,shipborne,
ground-based
Cal/Valcampaigns
Sep2024

Preliminary
validation
results
workshoppart 1(online)

Oct
2024

Commissioning phase (E1)
Preliminary validation results workshops:
Part 2: Launch+9 months (Europe)
Part 3: Launch+18 months (Japan)

ESA-JAXA Pre-Launch EarthCARE Science and Validation Workshop | 13 – 17 November 2023 | ESA-ESRIN, Frascati (Rome), Italy

Nov2024

Exploitation
phase (E2)

EarthCARE Scientific Validation
Implementation Plan 2.0
Towards readiness for release of version 2.0 in Jan 2024

Version 1.2 in 2021 :• Vol 1 overview, scope, objectives ofESA and JAXA validation activities• Vol 2 Details of ESA validation
activities• Vol 3 Details of JAXA validation
activities!

Each AO proposal is presented in theSVIP vol 2 based on input from Pisà Poster session
ESA-JAXA Pre-Launch EarthCARE Science and Validation Workshop | 13 – 17 November 2023 | ESA-ESRIN, Frascati (Rome), Italy

ESA validation rehearsal
Who is it for?

ESA PIs and co-Is

What is it for?

Validation readiness

ESA-JAXA Pre-Launch EarthCARE Science and Validation Workshop | 13 – 17 November 2023 | ESA-ESRIN, Frascati (Rome), Italy

ESA validation rehearsal
Who is it for?

ESA PIs and co-Is

What is it for?

Validation readiness

Familiarization with:• ESA data products

Poster #63
ESA-JAXA Pre-Launch EarthCARE Science and Validation Workshop | 13 – 17 November 2023 | ESA-ESRIN, Frascati (Rome), Italy

ESA validation rehearsal
Who is it for?

ESA PIs and co-Is

What is it for?

Validation readiness

Familiarization with• ESA data products• data discovery and dissemination services!

Conditions forpre-operational
data access

Back up system: commissioning server

https://ecvt.esa.int/confluence/display/ECAOPI/EarthCARE+data+dissemination

ESA-JAXA Pre-Launch EarthCARE Science and Validation Workshop | 13 – 17 November 2023 | ESA-ESRIN, Frascati (Rome), Italy

ESA validation rehearsal
Who is it for?

ESA PIs and co-Is

What is it for?

Validation readiness

Familiarization with
• ESA data products• data discovery and dissemination services• EVDC correlative database and upload!
ESA-JAXA Pre-Launch EarthCARE Science and Validation Workshop | 13 – 17 November 2023 | ESA-ESRIN, Frascati (Rome), Italy

ESA validation rehearsal
Who is it for?

ESA PIs and co-Is

What is it for?

Validation readiness

Familiarization with
• ESA data products• data discovery and dissemination services• EVDC correlative database and upload• ECVT portal (Confluence)

Account creation?
Password reset?
Access configuration?
Find your way?

ESA-JAXA Pre-Launch EarthCARE Science and Validation Workshop | 13 – 17 November 2023 | ESA-ESRIN, Frascati (Rome), Italy

ECVT portal admins:
rob.koopman@esa.int,
stephanie.rusli@ext.esa.int

ESA validation rehearsal
Who is it for?

ESA PIs and co-Is

What is it for?

Validation readiness

Familiarization with• ESA data products• data discovery and dissemination services• EVDC correlative database and upload• ECVT portal (Confluence)• Validation support toolsDEMOs--------James
Cookroom

L1 ATLIDand MSIsimulators

L1transformational
tool for CPR

ESA-JAXA Pre-Launch EarthCARE Science and Validation Workshop | 13 – 17 November 2023 | ESA-ESRIN, Frascati (Rome), Italy

Cal/Val tools
on EVDC

ESA orbittools

Atmosphere
Virtual Lab

ESA validation rehearsal
Who is it for?

ESA PIs and co-Is

What is it for?

Validation readiness

Familiarization with• ESA data products• data discovery and dissemination services• EVDC correlative database and upload• ECVT portal (Confluence)• Validation support tools• Validation best practices

ESA-JAXA Pre-Launch EarthCARE Science and Validation Workshop | 13 – 17 November 2023 | ESA-ESRIN, Frascati (Rome), Italy

ESA validation rehearsal
Who is it for?

ESA PIs and co-Is

What is it for?

Validation readiness

Familiarization with
• ESA data products• data discovery and dissemination services• EVDC correlative database and upload• ECVT portal (Confluence)• Validation support tools• Validation best practices
When?
(rehearsal guidelines
Dec 2023-Jan 2024)
Rehearsal
12-23 Feb 2024
Rehearsal review (online) 21 Mar 2024 (afternoon CET)
Where?

Own work station (online)

ESA-JAXA Pre-Launch EarthCARE Science and Validation Workshop | 13 – 17 November 2023 | ESA-ESRIN, Frascati (Rome), Italy

ESA validation rehearsal
What is expected of PIs/CoIs?

• Identify and rehearse Cal/val workflow• Feedback to ESA

Why participate?
• Last chance before launch to improve accessibilities and functionalities• Logistical overhead for data access (data protocols, authorization, account/password activation, GEOMS template,…)• Avoid work overloads during commissioning phase
ESA-JAXA Pre-Launch EarthCARE Science and Validation Workshop | 13 – 17 November 2023 | ESA-ESRIN, Frascati (Rome), Italy

ESA validation support tools
Detailed information: awebinars (on ECVT portal), andbpresentations and demos that follow this talk.
1. Orbit prediction and overpass analysis
Web-based: Orbit Prediction
and Overpass Tool (OPOT)
Graphical application: Earth Observation Swathand Orbit Visualization (ESOV)

Cal/Val tools
on EVDC

Command line: Zone/TrajectoryOverPass,
Instrument collocation tool!

!

NOTE: present implementation of OPOT is TLE-based
à Less accurate and less precise for longer-term prediction

ESA-JAXA Pre-Launch EarthCARE Science and Validation Workshop | 13 – 17 November 2023 | ESA-ESRIN, Frascati (Rome), Italy

ESA orbittools

ESA validation support tools
Detailed information: awebinars (on ECVT portal), andbpresentations and demos that follow this talk.
2. Comparing sub-orbital with EarthCARE L1 measurements
L1 ATLIDand MSI
simulators

v L1 data available to ECVT L+3v Sub-orbital measurements are not directlycomparable to space-based measurementsà L1 tools/simulators for ATLID, MSI, CPR

Cal/Val tools
on EVDCv Addresses difference in lidar,radar frequencies
v For user convenience:
tools will be hosted on EVDC

L1
transformational
tool for CPR

v Free, public use
ESA-JAXA Pre-Launch EarthCARE Science and Validation Workshop | 13 – 17 November 2023 | ESA-ESRIN, Frascati (Rome), Italy

ESA validation support tools
Detailed information: awebinars (on ECVT portal), andbpresentations and demos that follow this talk.
3. Validation analysis tools• EarthCARE data ingestion• Visualization• Quicklooks• Filtering• Collocation
EarthCARE plugins/reader in
Community Intercomparison
Suite (CIS) now available!

• Simple math operations

Cal/Val tools
on EVDC

Atmosphere
Virtual Lab§ Command line tools§ Python-based
See CIS demo at EVDC
Cal/Val tools booth

ESA-JAXA Pre-Launch EarthCARE Science and Validation Workshop | 13 – 17 November 2023 | ESA-ESRIN, Frascati (Rome), Italy

Community Intercomparison Suite

ESA EarthCARE Validation Teams(ECVT) subgroups
ATLID (L1)
Holger Baars (TROPOS)
Fabien Marnas (ESA)
Michael Eisinger (ESA)

Cloud and precipitation (L2)
Validationanalysissubgroups

Radiation (L1,L2), and MSI (L1)
Nicolas Clerbaux (RMIB)
Almudena Velazquez (RMIB)
Olivier Defauchy (ESA)

ESA-JAXA Pre-Launch EarthCARE Science and Validation Workshop | 13 – 17 November 2023 | ESA-ESRIN, Frascati (Rome), Italy

Eleni Marinou (NOA)
Vasileios Tzallas (ESA)

Aerosol (L2)Holger Baars (TROPOS)
Timon Hummel (ESA)Take-away message for ESA PIs/CoIs
ESA ground stations

Scientific
Validation
Implementation
Plan vol 264

ESA product intercomparisonsper AO proposal::2119

Intercomparisons of ESA productswith correlative data, per project
EVID17-EVID30
PI name
EVID

WeltonGausa

JossetHu

Chandrasekar

Nishizawa

Amiridis

Chepfer

DonovanTanelliPerezRamirez

Markonis

ScottWinker

EVID17

EVID18

EVID19EVID20

EVID21

EVID22

EVID23

EVID24

EVID25

EVID26

EVID27

EVID28

EVID29

EVID30G,ML355

S,L355

Level 1MSI
BBR
ATLID

G,ML

CPR (in support of CPR
L2A val.)

G-R-KaLevel 2 - Cloud-top, vertically integrated and layer-wise retrieval product
G,ML355, G-R-Ka

Cloud-top height

G,ML355 ,G-R-Ka

Cloud-top phase
Targetclassification

Aerosol layerheight/depth
Aerosol layerclassification

G,ML355
G,ML355

Cloud detection, Cloudaerosol discrimination

G,ML355, G-R-Ka

G,ML

Optical thickness
Ice cloud & snow

G-R-KaEffective radius

G-R-Ka,GC

Water path

G-R-Ka, G-RDM (MW)29Intercomparisons of ESA productswith correlative data, per project
EVID31-EVID41
PI Name
EVID

Qu

Hostetler

Völger

Kirchengast

Phillips

Sogacheva

Stein

EVID31

EVID32

EVID33

EVID34

EVID35

EVID36

EVID37

Mamouri

MatherEVID39

EVID40

GML, L355,Aer, A-IS-OPC, L532+DP, L808, C, Ae

Navas

Cecil

EVID41

EVID42

G,C1064, G,SAP440,G,SAP675, G,SAP870,G,SAP1020

Level 2 - Cloud-top, vertically integrated and layer-wise retrieval product
GR-Ka

Cloud-top height

TargetClassification

Cloud-top phase

GR-Ka

Aerosol layer height/depthC, GML, GR-Ka, A-IS-OPC, L532+DP, L808, C

GC

GML, GR-Ka

Aerosol layer classification
Cloud detection, Cloud aerosol
discrimination

Ice cloud &snow

GML, GR-Ka

Optical thickness

C, GR-Ka, RDM

Effective radius

C, GR-Ka, RDM

Water path

GCC, GR-Ka, RDM

Surface snow ratecbi

Optical thickness
Liquid cloud

Effective radius

G-R-KaWater path

G-R-Ka, G-RDM (MW)Surface rain rate

Rain

Liquid cloud

G-R-Ka, G-D

Aerosol optical thicknessÅngström exponent
EVID

EVID17

EVID18

EVID19EVID20

EVID21G,RDM

G-Aer, G-ML355

G,RDM

G-Aer, G-ML355

EVID22

EVID23

Surface snow rate

C, GR-Ka, RDM

Optical thickness

C, GR-Ka, RDM

Effective radius

C, GR-Ka, RDM

Water path

C, GR-Ka, RDM
D

Surface rain rate
Rain

cbi

Rain water path

Aerosol (perspecies)

C, GR-Ka, RDM

Rain water path
Aerosol (perspecies)
EVID24

EVID25

EVID26

EVID27

EVID28EVID29

EVID30Aer, GML

Aerosol optical thickness

Cloud/precipitation
fraction
Cloud/precipitation
phase

EVID32

EVID31

EVID33

EVID34

EVID35

EVID36

Extinction

Ice cloud & snow

G,ML

Extinction

G-R-KaG-R-KaIce cloud &snow

Snow rate

Ext-to-Bask ratio

C, R-Ka, RDM

Water content

C, R-Ka, RDM

Snow rate

D
D

Extinction

G-ML355

Rain water content

Effective radiusC, R-Ka, RDM

Liquid cloud

Effective radius

Rain

Rain water content

G-R-KaC, R-Ka, RDM

Water content
Water content

G-R-KaD, C, R-Ka, RDM

Rain rate
Rain rate

G-R-KaD, C, R-Ka, RDM

Median drop size

Median drop size

G-D

Aerosol extinction
Ext-to-Bask ratio

G-ML355

G,ML

Part. Lin. depol.ratio

G,ML
EVID17

EVID18

EVID19EVID20

EVID21

Aerosol (perspecies)

G-ML355

G,ML

EVID

EVID23Aerosol extinction

GML

Ext-to-Bask ratio

GML

EVID
EVID24

EVID25

EVID26

EVID27

EVID28

EVID29

EVID32

EVID31

EVID33

EVID34

EVID35

EVID36S

CodeA

AirborneISG

Ground-based

L<nm>

S

Satellite

C

Description
In situ

CodeMR

Description

ceilometer

Aer

Code

multi-wavelength radar MR

e.g. "L355" for 355-nme.g. R-W for W-band
R-<band>
lidar
radar

ESA-JAXA Pre-Launch EarthCAREScience and Validation Workshop
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ESA EarthCAREvalidation portal
https://ecvt.esa.int

Account creation
Password reset
Access configuration

Thank you!
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EVID41

Codes for validation means, instruments, and methods
ASign data protocol
Account creation
GEOMS compliance

EVID40S
S, G, ML, R-Ka
S, G, P, LWD, RDM

Terrestrial TOA flux

AeronetDescription
multi-wavelengthradarPol

polarimeter

OPC

optical particle
counter

Code

Description

CodeDP

depolarisation
channelRam

Raman capabilities

DDisdrometercbi

could be implemented in future

RDM

Radiometercso

currently screened out

Description

Code

Description

Airborne

ISIn situ

Ground-based

L<nm>e.g. "L355" for 355-nm
lidar

SatelliteCceilometer

Code

DescriptionMR

multi-wavelength radar

Code

Description

MR multi-wavelength radar

Code

Description

Code

DescriptionDP

depolarisation channel

Ram

Raman capabilities

DDisdrometercbicould be implemented in futureRadiometercso

currently screened out

Description
GS

R-<band> e.g. R-W for W-band radar Pol
AerAeronet

polarimeter

OPC optical particle counter RDM

URL of this table in Confluence: https://ecvt.esa.int/confluence/display/ECAOPI/EVID31-EVID42
URL of Validation Activities: https://ecvt.esa.int/confluence/display/ECAOPI/Validation+Activities

URL of Validation Activities: https://ecvt.esa.int/confluence/display/ECAOPI/Validation+Activities

ESA correlative data forEarthCARE validation
https://evdc.esa.int

EVID39Solar TOA flux
SW & LW fluxes at surface

CodeURL of this table in Confluence:https://ecvt.esa.int/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=ECAOPI&title=EVID17-EVID30

Pre-op data access agreement
Account creation
Access to commissioning server

EVID38BBR-SW and LW unfiltered radiances
Radiation

G-RDM (SW, LW)

Codes for validation means, instruments, and methods

ESA EarthCARE data
https://earth.esa.int/

EVID37

Level 2 - Radiation Products

EVID30

Solar TOA flux
SW & LW fluxes atsurface
Terrestrial TOA flux

Description

GSAP440,675,870,1020,1064; GC1064
GSAP440,675,870,1020,1064; GC1064

GML; GL532, DP

Part. Lin. depol.ratio

G-ML355d

EVID22

Level 2 - Radiation Products
BBR-SW and LW
unfiltered radiances

Code

EVID42GC

Effective radius

Ext-to-Bask ratio

G-ML355

G,ML

Extinction

Rain

EVID41GML

Snow median diameter

Snow median diameter

Liquid cloudAerosol (perspecies)

Aer, GSAP
EVID40Aerosol fraction
Aerosol species

Water content

EVID39C, R-Ka, RDM

Cloud/precipitation phase

G-ML355
G-ML355

Effective radius

EVID38Cloud/precipitation fraction
Targetclassification

IS

Aerosol species

EVID37

Level 2 - Vertical profiles at nadir

G-Aer, G-ML355
G-Aer, G-ML355

Aerosol fraction

Aer, GSAP

Aer, GML

Ångström exponent

EVID

Level 2 - Vertical profiles at nadir

Targetclassification

Radiation

ESA
Validation
Rehearsal

StebelEVID38
Level 1MSI
BBR
ATLID
CPR (in support of CPR L2Avalidation)

ESA-JAXA Pre-Launch EarthCAREScience and Validation Workshop
13–17 November 2023 |ESA–ESRIN |Frascati (Rome), Italy

stephanie.rusli@ext.esa.int
Rob.Koopman@esa.int

EVID42