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GEO Communities of Practice
Air Quality and Health
Participants: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, UK, USA, CEOS, EEA, ESA, ECMWF, ICSU, ISPRS, WMO
Contact: Gary Foley - EPA, USA
Atmospheric Chemistry (former IGOS Atmospheric Chemistry theme – IGACO)
Under development
Biodiversity
Participants: Australia, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Columbia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Namibia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Portugal, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, UK, Ukraine, Uruguay, USA, ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity, BioNET-INTERNATIONAL, BirdLife International, Conservation International, DIVERSITAS, ESRI, GBIF, Guyra Paraguay, IUCN, LIFEWATCH, The Nature Conservancy, UNEP, UNESCO
Contact: Woody Turner - NASA, USA; Anne Larigauderie - DIVERSITAS
Carbon Cycle (former IGOS Carbon theme – IGCO)
Under development
Coastal Zone (reflecting former IGOS Coastal theme)
Participants: Algeria, EC, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Italy, Israel, Spain, Sweden, USA, IOC
Contact: Michael Bruno - Stevens Institute of Technology, USA; Paul DiGiacomo - NOAA, USA; Hans-Peter Plag - University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Cryosphere (former IGOS Cryosphere theme)
Countries: The cryosphere community of practice will be built through the WMO Global Cryosphere Watch (GCW) program. It will therefore be supported by all WMO member countries. The main participating countries will be Canada, Switzerland, USA, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, UK, Australia, China, Japan, Denmark (including Greenland), and Russia
Programs: WCRP Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) project, Asia-CliC, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), International Permafrost Association (IPA), Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS), International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS), Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS), International Ice Charting Working Group (IICWG), Global Land-Ice Monitoring from Space (GLIMS), and others.
Data: The national meteorological and hydrological services (e.g., NOAA National Weather Service, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, etc.) will be the main providers of in situ data. Satellite data will be provided by space agencies including NOAA, ESA, EUMETSAT, CSA, JAXA, and DLR. Data will be archived by data centers and programs such as NSIDC (National Snow and Ice Data Center), WIGOS and WIS.
There are many, many projects that would be involved, e.g., the International Arctic Buoy Program (IABP), CEOP, GlobSnow, etc., but they are too numerous to list.
Contact: Jeff Key - NOAA, USA
Energy
Participants: Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, EC, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Italy, Korea, Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland, Thailand, USA, European Wind Energy Association, ESA, GOOS, International Energy Agency, IEEE
Contact: Ellsworth LeDrew - University of Waterloo, Canada; Thierry Ranchin - ENSMP, France; Marion Schroedter-Homscheidt - DLR, Germany
Forests
Participants: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, EC, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Niger, Norway, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, USA, CEOS, EEA, ESA, EUMETSAT, FAO, GOFC-GOLD, GTOS, ISCGM
Contact: Michael Brady - Natural Resources Canada, Canada
Geohazards (former IGOS Geohazards theme)
Participants: France, Italy, Japan, UK, USA, ESA, GGOS, UNESCO
Contact: Gonéri Le Cozannet - BRGM, France
Global Agricultural Monitoring (former IGOS Land sub-theme)
Participants: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, EC, ESA, FAO, France, India, Italy, Netherlands, South Africa, USA, CGIAR, WMO
Contact: Chris Justice - Geography Department, University of Maryland, USA; Jai Singh Parihar - ISRO, India
Water Cycle (former IGOS Water Cycle Theme – IGWCO)
Participants: Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Panama, Portugal, Switzerland, UK, USA, UNESCO, WMO
Contact: Rick Lawford - UMBC, USA
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