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SAFNWC/GEO package: An overview

NWCSAF Users’ Workshop, Madrid 24-26 February 2015

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AEMET

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Outline

Nowcasting SAF (NWCSAF) objectives: MSG and PPS packages

MSG package and products

CDOP-2 plans

Plans for CDOP-3 (Feb 2017 – Feb 2022)

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NWCSAF objectives

Satellite Application Facility on Support to Nowcasting and Very Short Range Forecast (NWC SAF) belongs to the EUMETSAT SAF Network.

The general objective of the SAFNWC is to provide operational services to ensure the optimum use of meteorological satellite data in Nowcasting and Very Short Range Forecasting by targeted users.

To achieve this goal , the SAFNWC is responsible for the development and maintenance of appropriate SW Packages (GEO and POLAR Satellites), as well as of all related tasks for user's support.

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MSG/GEO and PPS SW packages

AEMET

MétéoFrance

ZAMG

SMHI

The NWCSAF Consortium:

Geostationary satellites:MSG/GEO SW package

Polar Satellites:PPS SW package

Continuous Development & Operations Phase 2, CDOP-2 -> 2012-2017Continuous Development & Operations Phase 3, CDOP-3 -> 2017-2022

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MSG package

SW elements: Task Manager, NWCLIB, PGEs, tools. To execute, with minimum human assistance, all necessary tasks for the generation of SAF NWC Products in a real-time operational mode and for a configurable geographical area.

Auxiliary Data

NWCLIB

Configuration Files DATABUF

i5/i4

NWC/GEO

Satellite Data

NWP Data

Local Data & Observations

e2 e3 e4

Operator e1NWC GEO

Output Products

e5

Task Manager PGEs

i1/i4

i1i1

i3/i4i4 i4

i2

i5

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MSG package

Current version is MSG v2013: products derived from MSG data

Products:

•Cloud products (Météo-France,Lannion):

Cloud mask, Cloud Type, Cloud Top Temperature and Height Presentation by: H. Le Gleau & G. Kerdraon (Météo-France,Lannion,

France)

•Clear Air products (AEMET):

Precipitable water in different layers and instability indices Main improvement respect to v2012: support to ECMWF NWP input at hybrid levels Presentation by M.A. Martínez (AEMET, Madrid,Spain)

CDOP-2 releases: MSG v2013, GEO v2016

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MSG package MSG v2013

•Precipitation products (AEMET):

Precipitating clouds, Convective rainfall rate, day-time Precipitating clouds and convective rainfall rate from physical propertiesMain improvement: new day-time Precipitating clouds and convective rainfall rate products from physical propertiesPresentation by Cecilia Marcos (AEMET, Madrid, Spain)

•Wind Products (AEMET):

Atmospheric Motion Vectors from SEVIRI, trajectoriesMain improvement: Calculation of trajectories considering tracer persistence specially in the rapid scan modePresentation by J. García-Pereda (AEMET)

•Satellite image interpretation product (ZAMG):

Automatic Satelite interpretation (ASII)Presentation about a new generation of ASII (ASII-NG) by A. Wirth

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MSG package MSG v2013

•Convection products (Météo-France, Toulouse): Rapid Developing Thunderstorm Presentation by J.M. Moisselin

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CDOP-2 plans

• New version GEO v2016 to be delivered Q2 2016

• First steps towards the new version GEO v2017 that will be delivered at the beginning of the new phase CDOP-3

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CDOP-2 plans: GEO v2016

Main changes:

•New Task Manager, NWCLIB and tools:Needed to add the capability to process data from “other” satellites.Unification of common functionsOther minor improvements

•New output format: Netcdf

•Adaptation of Wind products to GOES-N satellites

•Scientific improvements in Cloud Products, HRW Product and ClearAir Product

•New products: Cloud microphysics, CI (convection initiation), Convective Warning, ASII-NG and EXIM (extrapolated images, presentation by A. Jann)

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CDOP-2 plans: first steps for GEO v2017 in CDOP-3

•Scientific development during CDOP-2

•Main improvements:

Adaptation of products to other foreign satellite: Himawari (and GOES-R, TBD), as a first step to prepare for the adaptation of products to MTG-FCI

Precipitation products from Cloud Physical Properties: Night algorithm

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CDOP-3 Plans•Adaptation of GEO products to MTG-FCI: new channels, better spatial and temporal resolutions

•Make use of MTG-LI new data

•Continue the adaptation to other satellites: Himawari, GOES-R

•Plans for MTG-S (presentation by M.A. Martínez): To offer a user friendly SW to manage the MTG-S L1 and L2 data

L1 data: PC to BTs , generation of MTG-S L1 BTs files for NWCSAF user defined regions. Generation of L1 products as RGB images.

L2 products:From CAF L2 T,q profiles: calculation of TPW, LPW and Instability indices at dwells. Combination and Reprojection of dwells to user defined regionsSAF L2 product: locally executed light CPU algorithms for retrieval T, q profiles using as input local NWP models.

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CDOP-3 Plans

Open questions (inputs from the users requested):

•MTG-S requirements•Reprocessing requirements•Requirements for Rapid Scan (MTG)

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION