The Use of Satellite Data in the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (Cams)

The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) is one of the six thematic services of the European Union's flagship Earth Observation programme Copernicus. CAMS is implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) together with a network of about 60 entities distributed in 20 European countries: it is thus a truly international and collaborative effort. CAMS delivers operationally a wide range of information products and services on air quality, emissions and surface fluxes, solar radiation and climate forcings. All CAMS atmospheric composition outputs are unrestricted and provided free-of-charge to users worldwide. The CAMS global forecasting system is using ECMWF's Integrated Forecasting System (IFS), which is used successfully for Numerical Weather Prediction and has been extended with modules for atmospheric chemistry, aerosols and greenhouse gases. Over 60 different satellite data streams are assimilated to provide twice daily global atmosphere composition forecasts.