FIDUCEO Hamburg Science Meeting 2016

Background and Scope

FIDUCEO (FIDelity and Uncertainty in Climate data records from Earth Observations) will create new climate datasets from Earth observations with defensible uncertainty and stability information. This science meeting took on the following topics:

Fundamental Climate Data Records

• Status for AVHRR, HIRS, MVIRI, and microwave sounders
• Planning for next version
• Definition of shape and content

Harmonisation

• Tutorial on concepts and results
• Workshop on example data sets and realistic simulations
• Planning the next steps and finalising the approach

Date and Place

The workshop was held on July 12-14, 2016 at the Meteorological Institute of the University of Hamburg.