EUMETSAT support for precipitation monitoring

1. EUMETSAT support for precipitation monitoring Jose.Prieto@eumetsat.int

2. 6 6 7 7 4 4 3 3 2 2 1 1 5 5 8 8 SAF centres and objectives

3. SAF centres and objectives 6 6 7 7 4 4 3 3 2 2 1 1 5 5 8 8 Member State Cooperating State Support to Nowcasting and Very Short Range Forecasting Ocean and Sea Ice Climate Monitoring Numerical Weather Prediction Land Surface Analysis Ozone and Atmospheric Chemistry Monitoring GRAS Meteorology Support to Operational Hydrology and Water Management SAF Consortium Member Additional Met Service Users Objectives of the SAF Network • Improve the ability of EUMETSAT’s Member States to exploit satellite data; • Encourage the utilisation of existing skills and infrastructure in Member States and Cooperating States; • Facilitate cost-effective exploitation by ensuring that services are distributed in the most appropriate way; • Foster development of cooperation with non-Member States and other organisations.

4. Hydrology SAF • SAF on Support to Operational Hydrology and Water Management • Host institute: Italian Meteorological Service (USAM), involving Member States and Cooperating States • SAF products focuses on • precipitation • soil moisture • snow parameters • utilisation of these parameters in hydrological models and NWP • The H-SAF started Development Phase in September 2005

5. Eight SAFs • Satellite Application Facility • providing products and services to users on an operational basis with a long-term perspective • specialised on topics and themes • located at Weather Services in EUMETSAT Member and Co-operating States • developed and operated by consortium of partners • part of the EUMETSAT application ground segment • complement production of standard meteorological products at EUMETSAT central facility

6. SAF Project 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 SAF in support to Nowcasting & Very Short Range Forecasting SAF on Ocean and Sea Ice SAF on Ozone and Atmospheric Chemistry Monitoring SAF on Numerical Weather Prediction CDOP Development Phase IOP SAF on Climate Monitoring SAF on GRAS Meteorology SAF on Land Surface Analysis H-SAF Development Phase Initial Operations Phase (until February 2007) SAF Continuous Development and Operations Phase, Slice 1 (2007-2012) Status

7. CDOP-2 • SAF Network after 2012: • 5 years of CDOP-2 foreseen within the MTG budget • strategy under definition • SAFs started planning for 2012-2017 • to include MTG products • Integration with other initiatives: Eumetcal, GMES, WMO SCOPE-CM, GHRSST, GODAE

8. MTG Phase A • 3-axis platforms Imaging Satellites (MTG-I) • The Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) • The Lightning Imager (LI) • The Data Collection System (DCS) and Search and Rescue (GEOSAR) • Sounding Satellites (MTG-S) • The Infrared Sounder (IRS) • The Ultra-violet, Visible and Near Infrared Sounder (UVN). UVN is provided as GMES Sentinel 4 Instruments

9. For each pixel do derive data done end User Interaction with Users: Services provided to users Documents • User Manuals • Validation Reports Near-Real-Time Products EUMETCast SAF Software and off-line products Internet (FTP, Web) User service (training)

10. SAF For each pixel do derive data done end User Helpdesk Workshops Interaction with Users:Feedback provided to SAFs User Beta user programme

11. Observation Portal

12. Observation Portal

13. Precipitation products in EUMETCast

14. Training on societal benefit areas of applications • EXAMPLE: LAND • Brasilia, Course on Land applications of Satellites. Dec 2008 • Sofia, Drought and fires. Sep 2009 • Maputto, Use of satellite products to monitor the soil. Nov 2009 • Yearly course in English or French on land use, starting 2010 • Biennial workshop on Drought and Fire applications, 2011, Turkey

15. Training topic: Precipitation • Proposed training event • 11-15 October 2010 • Audience: Eastern Europe and African hydrologists from NMHS • Embedded in the IPWG workshop • Afternoon modular training sessions • Moodle infrastructure available for communication and repository • Saba-Centra on-line lectures invited • H-SAF implication as lecturers, planners, training module providers

16. Training topic: Precipitation (EC) • Marie Curie Initial Training Network programme • On satellite precipitation estimation and water resources. • Twice: 2011-2012 • Keynote speakers required • Workshops for academic/industry/users • H-SAF implication as lecturers ?

17. Blended courses • Mixture of distance and classroom phases • Covering a period of two to three months • Based on communication tools • Centra Saba: on-line presentations • Moodle: tidy repository of materials and training activities and discussions (forum, chat, quiz, glossary, exercise, documents)

18. andEUMeTrain • EUMETCAL is the EUMETNET training project • EUMETCAL is the European Virtual Organisation for Meteorological Training with focus on courses • http://www.eumetcal.org/ • EUMeTrain is a EUMETSAT project, similar to a SAF for training • EUMeTrain produces training material and delivers training on satellite meteorology (outsourcing) • http://www.zamg.ac.at/eumetrain/ • Topical weeks: Convection, Mediterranean, Fog, Dust (March 2010), Precipitation ??

19. Blended courses • Moodle web page for the 2009 Satellite Meteorology course • Examples in • training.eumetsat.int

20. Blended courses Centra screen-shot • Centra is the on-line session manager • Participants click on their home towns (or on quiz image features)

21. Blended courses

22. Web training Pages Home  What We do  Training  Distance Learning

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