Team

In the CCI+ project, the project consortium consists of the following partners:

• Earth Observation Data Centre (EODC), Austria
  - project management
• Technische Universität Wien (TUW), Austria
  - algorithm development/ scientific advancements
• Vandersat, The Netherlands
  - passive datasets/ scientific advancements
• Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zürich), Switzerland
  - validation and verification
• CESBIO, France
  - algorithm development

Within the previous phases of the project (Phase 1 and 2), the following partners also contributed:

• GeoVille Information Systems GmbH (GeoVille), Austria
  - project management, validation and verification
• Angewandte Wissenschaft Software und Technologie GmbH (AWST), Austria
  - system engineering
• Finnish Meteorolocial Institute (FMI), Finland
  - validation and verification
• University College Cork (UCC), Ireland
  - validation and verification
• Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), Norway
  - validation and verification

User Groups

In previous project phases, dedicated key users contributed to ensuring the product was robust and suitable for use in different applications. The following institutes were involved:

• Met Office Hadley Centre, United Kingdom
• MPI Meteorology, Germany
• Meteo France, France
• ECMWF, International
• MPI Biogeochemistry, Germany

The key user concept is no longer applied to the ESA CCI SM product as the product has been proven in use in many applications through hundreds of publications and is also utilised in the "State of the Climate" BAMS report every year. However, we still engage with the Climate Modelling User Group (CMUG).

The Climate Modelling User Group (CMUG) consist of notable European institutions representing an interface of the CCI program and the wider climate research community. The CMUG is intended as a structured forum allowing for discussion and inter-comparison of assessment methods, agreement on best practices and common standards, and multi-disciplinary assessments of the consistency, error characteristics and impacts of the global data products generated by CCI. CMUG allows for an integrated analysis of ECVs.