Next generation climate monitoring and related capabilities

Expected Outcome:Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:Climate data are improved both spatially and temporally, physically more consistent and better exploited across a wide range of users, stakeholders and regions;The EU climate data sovereignty is strengthened, with enhanced EU contribution to climate monitoring and climate change assessments;Climate information distillation is facilitated by innovative methods to provide useful information to policy making in a more efficient way. Scope:Climate monitoring of Essential Climate Variables[1] at global and regional scales is crucial to assess the state of our climate, its variability and change, and to track progress towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the corresponding EU climate objectives. Underlying elements, in particular climate data records, reanalyses and forcings, are fundamental to climate science and serve multiple applications across weather, climate, environmental and sectoral domains, generating societal benefits. In turn, methods to distil information from this wealth of data can help extract relevant knowledge and key messages for climate policymaking.Proposals are expected to address only one of the following priority areas, which should be clearly indicated:A. Next generation climate data recordsActions should advance innovative methods to enhance, expand and update climate data records; exploit recently rescued and/or new data streams; develop innovative methods to improve the water-energy-carbon cycle physical and bio-geochemical consistency across data records; and improve their applicability for users.B. Next generation Earth system reanalysesActions should undertake research to prepare for the next generation global and European high resolution climate reanalyses. Progress is expected in enhanced data assimilation methods, further coupling the Earth system components, expanding atmospheric composition reanalysis backward in time, piloting