Contribution of the Centre de Météorologie Spatiale of Météo-France to the SAFNWC

The Eumetsat "SAF to support to Nowcasting and Very Short Range Forecasting" (SAFNWC) has been hosted since 1997 by the Spanish Meteorological Institute, Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMet). The objective of this SAF is to develop an operational software package to produce 12 products (aiming to support nowcasting applications) using data from the future Eumetat MSG and EPS meteorological satellites. Four weather services are involved in this SAF: AEMet (Spanish weather service), SMHI (Swedish weather service), ZAMG (Austrian weather service) and Météo-France. For more detailed information on the project and the products refer to the NWC SAF Web site at AEMet.

The Centre de Météorologie Spatiale (CMS) of Météo-France is responsible for the development and scientific maintenance of software modules that allow to extract 3 cloud parameters: CMa: cloud mask, CT: cloud types, CTTH: cloud top temperature and height from MSG SEVIRI imagery over European areas.

On this site, you will find:

• an overview of the CMS contribution to the SAFNWC since 1997
• a short description of cloud algorithms implemented in the v2010 release:
• CMa: cloud mask,
• CT: cloud types,
• CTTH: cloud top temperature and height
• a summary of cloud algorithms validation results:
• CMa: cloud mask,
• CT: cloud types,
• CTTH: cloud top temperature and height
• cloud products
• routinely extracted from MSG/SEVIRI
• experimental automatic dust flag from MSG/SEVIRI
• examples extracted from MSG/SEVIRI
• routinely extracted from GOES-Est imagery
• extracted from MODIS imagery
• a list of related publications
• a list of related links
  

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Last update : 18 May 2010