CONFESS
CONsistent representation of temporal variations of boundary Forcings in reanalysES and Seasonal forecasts
CONFESS is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement, under the call “Copernicus evolution: Research activities in support of the evolution of the Copernicus services”.
CONFESS will improve the reliability and usability of information provided by the Copernicus Climate Change service by capitalising on the synergies between Copernicus services, and pave the way for a continuous evolution of the service.
Latest News
CONFESS Final General Assembly
The end of the project is approaching and we are planning our final event for the project. This is planned to take place over two days and is structured around the main themes of CONFESS. When: afternoon of 5th…
Recent CONFESS engagements with the wider Climate Community
The end of 2023 was a busy time for CONFESS as we presented the findings of the project at a number of high profile international events. All our individual presentations for the project are available on our webpage. Here…
CONFESS present in S2S Summit, Reading 3rd-7th July 2023
CONFESS was actively present in the Sub-seasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Summit, which took place in Reading during the 3rd -7th of July 2023, to celebrate the success of 10 years of the S2S WWRP-WCRP program and look at the…
Results Highlights
Homogenized record of tropospheric aerosol for reanalyses and reforecasts
Decadal variations of tropospheric aerosols can have a strong impact on the production of reanalyses and seasonal re-forecasts. In preparation for the next generation of C3S products, CONFESS has produced a homogenous and consistent multi-decadal record of tropospheric aerosols, exploiting the atmospheric composition capabilities that the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) has been developing in…
Improved Vegetation Variability
A new deliverable presents the results of improved vegetation variability on surface fluxes modeled with offline land surface models. In this deliverable, we present the integration of the unprecedented vegetation information, from the latest satellite campaigns in the frame of Copernicus, into the land surface models (LSMs) used for reanalysis and initialization of the seasonal…
Year 1 highlights
The first period of the CONFESS project running from 1 November 2020 to 31 October 2021 has just concluded, and an impressive list of results has been achieved. WP1 A harmonized observational Leaf Area Index (LAI) dataset covering the 1993-2019 period has been finalized and disseminated to CONFESS partners. The Land Use / Land Cover…
CONFESS H2020 Project 