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1. EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 4 43 Table of Contents 1 TNE RO DUCTION P 5 pb PURPOSE eenaa E E AA E 5 We SCOPE ETE E E E E E A T E T E E b 1 3 DEFINITIONS AND ACRONYMS visscssssacicansecusussiesndusile E RE ACER ERN HN E E EN PEEL U TEE VE ENSE CURE NERVES REN ARE R ON NS 3 1 4 REFERENCES 1 4 1 Reference documents 2 OVERVIEW OF THE CDOP 3 USER REQUIREMENTS PROCESS ecce cree eee eee esee en soe e eese e tasse sese 6 Del JN RODUCDION 2 ib EH titer be tH eiie tupi meister bassi te berei totae pest ee stes ea atike 2 2 2014 USERS SURVEY 2 3 2015 USERS WORKSHOP 21 3 E RIPE EINE HIE E HIE OR EIE IEEE dees EE AE gua ERES D I Re EE AI ao loe b ouod i dou GR 6 3 4 3 4 GENERAL QUESTIONS PRODUCTS DISTRIBUTION 3 5 REQUESTED IMPROVEMENTS SURVEY SUMMARY 3 54 HELP DESK issu PD DS RO DOR RR SE 3 5 2 MSG PACKAGE recie 35 2 1 CMA PGEO01 Cloud Mask 3 5 2 2 CT PGEO2 Claud Ty peicssscaditecetatets bee toi iet ti EE EE EE EE E EEan E E aN r Enee nao ETEei SAE CTTH PGE03 Cloud Top Temperature and Height 3 5 2 4 PC PGB04 Precipitating Clouds nitet eines E E E EAA 35 2 5 CRRAPGEO5 Convective Rainfall Rate s 2
2. Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 21 43 3 4 GENERAL QUESTIONS PRODUCTS DISTRIBUTION Did you know that SAFNWC MSG Cloud Mask Cloud Type and CTTH products Full Disk are being distributed via the EUMETCAST Service 30 answers mYes lam aware ofthis service mYes lamusing this service wYes plan to use this service o No Ididn tknow aboutthis service Do you think it would be useful that other SAFNWC MSG products would be distributed via the EUMETCAST service 24 answers YES 12 Comments e PC CRR 2 e RDT 3 NO 12 Comments e Prefer calculating locally 2 e Only to compare with own products Did you know that NWCSAF PPS Cloud Mask Cloud Type and CTTH products from AVHRR are being distributed via the EUMETCAST NWC EARS Service 27 answers BYes lamaware ofthis service B Yes lamusing this service OYes plan to use this service o No Ididn tknow aboutthis service EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 22 43 Via the EUMETCAST NWC EA
3. EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility to NoWCasting amp Very Short Range Forecasting Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Users Workshop Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Page 1 43 The EUMETSAT Network of Satellite Application Facilities NWC SAF Support to Nowcasting and Very Short Range Forecasting Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Users Workshop NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP O1 Issue 1 Rev 0 15 April 2015 Prepared by Project Team EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 S AF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 2 43 REPORT SIGNATURE TABLE Prepared by Ana Sanchez AEMET NWCSAF Operations Manager Reviewed by NWCSAF Project Team Authorised by Pilar Ripodas AEMET SAFNWC Project Manager EN o 10 March 2015 15 April 2015 EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 3 43 DOCUMENT CHANGE RECORD Version Date Pags Changes
4. Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 36 43 4 1 6 Convection Products e IPMA gt Include information about cloud microphysics v2016 First version in v2016 e IPMA gt Information on convective patterns U shape V shape cold ring should be included in RDT product Objective v2022 6 VSA foreseen on this issue at the end of CDOP3 Up to now second level contour and overshooting top description is the first approach to describe convective patterns e IPMA gt Looking forward for the Convective Initiation product v2016 e DWD gt NWCSAF may have the newest BUFR tables and less local tables BUFR Table Version 6 vs Version 9 local BURF tables DWD user has been contacted For this technical problem suggestion has been made to open a helpdesk ticket Additionaly an action CDOP2 OR2014 5 is assigned to MFT RDT developer to provide to LE the RDT BUFR tables local B and D tables in order to be put on the NWCSAF website It does not need to be on the software e OMSZ gt Looking forward the Convective Initiation product of RDT It is very important to detect the convective clouds as early as possible The satellite information is the most useful in early stages of the convective cells when no no intense radar signal is available yet Using
5. Very Short Users Workshop Range Forecasting Page For easier installation of NWCSAF PPS v2014 also precompiled binary packages have been distributed for Ubuntu Suse CentOS Redhat enterprise 6 answers If you have already installed NWCSAF PPS v2014 have you used the products in new netCDF Blhave installed NWCSAF PPS v2014 with help of precompiled binary packages mlhave installed NWCSAF PPS v2014 but have notused precompiled binary packages DIplanto install NWCSAF PPS v2014 with help of precompiled binary packages Blwill notuse precompiled binary packages format 5 answers YES 3 Comments Netcdf is good step makes the post processing easier We have installed PPSv2014 in development test since a couple of months and is adapting the production system to the new format before putting it in operation NO 2 Comments Would you consider contributing to future development enhancements of the NWCSAF PPS Not yet but soon package 6 answers E Yes with the current license agreement El Yes if it was released under an open source license E Yes it does not depend on the license No am not interested Comments Only for a climate PPS version Not as open source software Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 v1 0 EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03
6. a bit more could be helpful e Access to document not easy for example rank key in search tools reinitialized at each request no guidelines for the search EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 10 43 What is the main use you make of NWCSAF products 43 answers Operation Forecast m Both m Research m Other Do you use NWCSAF end products for hazard warnings 42 answers No Yes 0 0 10 0 20 0 30 0 40 0 50 0 60 0 70 0 Do you use NWCSAF end products for a commercial activity 43 answers Yes 6 10 15 20 25 30 39 40 E Un Which of the NWCSAF packages are you using Compulsory 1 1 m MSG package BMSG amp PPS PPS package m None ofthem EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 11 43 3 2 MSG PART Which SAFNWC MSG version is currently running in your site 37 answers 30 26 255 20 4 15 4 10 4 SAFNWC
7. only on the NWCSAF but also on the advance availability of the MTG test datasets that EUMETSAT will provide e OMSZ and South Africa Weather Service gt Support officially the use of other NWP models than ECMWF For PGEI3 it is used ECMWF to calculate the coefficients because is the most common NWP to users and all models are compared with ECMWF In any case tools for calculate coefficients by users could be generated as best effort basis e OMSZ 2 Possibility to use different NWP under the same user It can be considered for next versions not for GEO v2016 that is already being implemented EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 28 43 e OMSZ gt User friendly description tool to help to create NWP input file different from ECMWF would be welcome All the necessary information is already included in the User Manual We will consider the possibility of making a more comprehensive summary e DWD gt NWP import also GRIB 2 NWCSAF software already handles GRIB2 e DWD gt most raster PGE also as polygons to use them as weather objects for semi automatic warning systems and other production systems It is not considered at the moment e DWD gt Import of compressed HRIT Data HRIT C We
8. 5 answers Three of them use ECMWF but there are other NWP models used like GME 20L60 HIRLAM HRM and WRF All of them receive NWP in Hybrid Levels in their system Which of the current SAFNWC PPS Products are you using 5 answers 5 4 B 2 di 0 T T T T 1 PGE01Cma PGEO2CT PGEO3CTTH PGE04PC PGEO5CPP EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility to NoWCasting amp Very Short Range Forecasting Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Users Workshop Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Page 18 43 Could you please rate the usefulness of the products you are using 5 answers 10 co o AB NA e 9 2 9 0 9 2 8 8 8 0 PGE01 CMa PGE02 CT PGE03 CTTH PGE04PC PGE05CPP Would you like to make any comment or remark about any product 1 answer CPP e Should be consistent with NWC SAF MSG CPP Future satellites PPS is already adapted to the VIIRS sensor on S NPP Plans foresee to continue support for VIIRS on future JPSS and NPOESS platforms Additional to that please indicate your need for future adaptations PGEO1 X PGEO2 CMa CT EPS SG METimage sensor 4 4 FY3 D E F MERSI II sensor 3 3 Sentinel 3 SLSTR sensor 4 Ar PGE03 PGE04 PGEO5 CTTH PC CPP 4 3 3 3 1 2 4 2 3 EUMETSAT Satellite Application Faci
9. RDT without lightning input the developing convective cells are not detected early enough CI could help in this case v2016 We subscribe to this point of view on the importance of CI but note that RDT detect convective cells without lightning input in 70 of cases and CI will provide a convection probability with 30 v2016 60 v2016 and 90 range v2018 e OMSZ gt Detect cloud top features like cold ring cold U V features Long living more than 45 minute cold ring or cold U V shapes are indicators of the possibly storm severity Objective v2022 6 VSA foreseen on this issue at the end of CDOP3 Up to now second level contour and overshooting top description is the first approach to describe convective patterns e OMSZ gt Improve the reliability of the separation between convective from non convective cloud systems It is a key point for RDT algorithm and has been highly improved in previous years use of NWP data new channels in discrimination process We will still focus on these aspects in future releases 2018 new discrimination scheme and use of CI as additional predictor 2019 use of MTG FCI better spectral resolution input data increase of horizontal resolution 2022 use of MTG LI in discrimination phase to better distinguish convective cells from the others e OMSZ 2 Find a solution for getting smoother trajectories Convective cell trajectories are not smooth by nature The tracking has been
10. Reference documents The reference documents contain useful information related to the subject of the project These reference documents complement the applicable ones and can be looked up to enhance the information included in this document if it is desired They are referenced in this document in the form RD X For dated references subsequent amendments to or revisions of any of these publications do not apply For undated references the current edition of the document referred applies Current documentation can be found at SAFNWC Helpdesk web http www nwcsaf org Ref Title Code Vers Date RD 1 The Nowcasting SAF Glossary NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT GLO Table 1 List of Referenced Documents EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 6 43 2 OVERVIEW OF THE CDOP 3 USER REQUIREMENTS PROCESS 2 1 INTRODUCTION A major control point within the NWC SAF CDOP 2 project is the 2015 Users Workshop supported by the 2014 Users Survey The objective of this landmark is to assess the current status of the project from the users point of view and to collect user requirements for the next NWC SAF phase CDOP 3 2 2 2014 USERS SURVEY A Questionnaire Form based on the SurveyMon
11. SW for NWP assimilation and general diagnosis that looks reasonable But there should still be place for nowcasting objectives it is asked that low level high resolution motion patterns is a parallel development line with close contribution of users suggested e We assimilate the high resolution AMVs into our operational convective scale UK NWP model e Hard to implement in visualization e Used for reasearch and operational weather analyse ASII e There is no internal agreement on its use It is proposed that a survey on operational use is conducted by the NWC SAF and information is reflected in the documentation RDT e Lack of continuity in convective cells lifecycle too large non representative extent Earliest stages are important Convective initiation subproduct is of course aimed it is also proposed that BUFR product of convective cells also includes the very first detection before convective test e Weare planning to implement this soon EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 14 43 e Essential to have this product convected to HDF the in built converter does not function well e Very bad format would be better in HDF or at least with a working converter e Useful for warning service
12. better to postpone this task to a later phase CDOP 4 in which more than one MTG imager will be available at the same time in space 11 and 12 IWW OMSZ NWPSAF and AEMET gt Research on AMV retrieval and AMV wind profiles and AMV wind shear with hyperspectral data like MTG Sounder Radiances or Temperature and Humidity profiles Sounder will only be available in 2021 or later at most only a few months before the end of CDOP 3 Additionally there is a need to extract first the corresponding Radiances or T q profiles from MTG Sounder satellite and verify that they are resolutive enough to extract valid AMV data All this suggests the corresponding AMVs and AMV profiles can only become operative during CDOP 4 with corresponding testing and validation studies to be taken during CDOP 3 EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 35 43 e II and 12 IWW and NWPSAF 2 Provision of additional Speed and height error estimates Additional Speed and height error estimates are thought to be released in v2022 for release in the first stages of CDOP 4 e AEMET NWP and NWPSAF gt It would be great if the HRW Software included a tool to produce statistics comparing AMVs with suitable model winds e g
13. considered e OMSZ gt Please create module for parallax correcting the HRV image It is not planned We can consider it in the future if we have resources available e CMSAF gt The application of the NWC SAF packages for climate purposes requires a modular structure and object oriented programming of the software This includes that patches are provided as separate modules to be implemented as additional software to the existing package e g provision of interfaces for new satellites The current experience independent of MSG or PPS is that a new full installation of the software is required to enable an executable version with stable functionality NWCSAF GEO SW patches for a given SW version do not require a new full installation of the SW package For NWCSAF PPS the Project Team thinks that a closer cooperation could ease the process of patch installation EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 29 43 e CMSAF gt Furthermore CM SAF requires that it should be possible to run previous algorithms on data from new Satellites if they don t change in terms of available spectral channels or other critical parts A shift to a new satellite in the same satellite series should be realized so that it
14. e Difficult to visualize SPhR e Use of all final subproducts with its guess differences is being developed for user applications Operational use of subsampled or selected profiles is under consideration e Should be the same algorithm as in PPS only indices for instability please use standard WMO descriptors PCPh e See comment in PGE04 Plans for use of hourly subproduct e Nice but misses the area sometimes and needs more calibration CRPh e See comment in PGEOS Plans for use of hourly subproduct e Nice but misses the area sometimes and needs more calibration In case you are adapting SAFNWC MSG products to any satellite could you please indicate which ones 5 answers PGEOl PGEO2 PGE03 PGE04 PGEO5 PGEO9 PGE10 PGE11 PGE13 PGE14 PGE14 CMa CT CTTH PC CRR HRW ASII RDT SPhR PCPh CRPh GOES N 13 14 15 il 0 1 0 0 0 0 il 0 0 0 COMS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MTSAT 2 il 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 METEOSAT 7 2 2 1 1 1 il 2 a 1 1 RYE il 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 GOMS 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Could you please indicate which of the current amp coming SAFNWC MSG products would you like to be adapted to any of the following current amp coming satellites in the case that the needed channels are available in the corresponding sensor 26 answers PGEO01 PGE02 PGE03 PGE04 PGE05 PGE09 PGE10 PGE11 PGE13 PGE14 PGE14 PGE15 PGE16 PGE17 PGE18 PGE19 CMa CT CTTH PC CRR HRW ASII RDT SPhR PCPh CRPh CMIC EXIM ASII NG CI cw MTG 26 26 26 20 20
15. of EPS SG Metimage satellite both for local Arctic region and global processing Requirement accepted e OSISAF gt Need for a stand alone library for reading PPS HDF5 products files C functions for reading exist within the PPS package but having them available in a separate library independent from the PPS package would avoid the need for installing the full PPS package on all platforms where we need to read the PPS output products Requirement accepted Will be provided outside PPS package and for NETCDF instead of HDF5 format from v2014 onward e OSISAF gt Recommend for providing PPS output products in netCDF format compliant with the CF meta data convention PPS v2014 already compliant with requirement e OMSZ gt Include module in PPS to create RGB images from the day amp night band of the VIIRS instrument Although it is an image and not a product but it is really beneficial providing visible like visual information about the clouds at night Not scope of NWCSAF However SMHI might consider supplying this functionality in PyTroll e CMSAF gt The application of the NWC SAF packages for climate purposes requires a modular structure and object oriented programming of the software This includes that patches are provided as separate modules to be implemented as additional software to the existing package e g provision of interfaces for new satellites The current experience independent of MSG or PPS is that a new fu
16. presentation on PPS status and plans given by Adam Dybbroe presented plans to prioritise adaptation to Sentinel 3 above introduction of a cloud microphysics based rain rate in PPS and not to release any updates to precipitation products in CDOP3 In CDOPA the release of NWCSAF software based on HSAF or CMSAF precipitation retrieval algorithm based on MWI ICI is planned for either day 1 or day 2 availability TBD After a short discussion the need to prioritize was acknowledged and plans supported EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility to NoWCasting amp Very Short Range Forecasting Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Users Workshop Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Page 43 43 We started to look at the planned implementation of the KNMI microphysics based precipitation product and see problems at low to moderate sun elevations and over ice snow covered surfaces The product would primarily be used in northern latitudes in areas where no radar data is available as over the north Atlantic Use would thus be limited to the daytime conditions with sufficient sun elevation and thus in practise to only a part of the year This limited availability of data makes its usefulness to Nowcasting questionable It is thus better to reallocate development time to tasks which are requested by several users and we plan to write a proposal for change of pro
17. they will be applied to precipitation products OMSZ 2 Include the NIR2 2 channel data of MTG EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 34 43 Day time precipitation products uses as inputs cloud top microphysical parameters computed inside cloud type product Satellite radiances are not planned to be used as direct inputs OMSZ and NMA Improve the precipitation algorithms in order to fully benefit of MTG v2019 precipitation products will be adapted to MTG imager better temporal and horizontal resolutions v2022 CRPh product will be adapted and calibrated to MTG LI OMSZ and NMA Use LI for MTG v2022 CRPh product will be adapted and calibrated to MTG LI 4 1 4 Winds Product Coordinated Group on Meteorological Satellites CGMS 2012 Meeting Report the NWP SAF and KMA the Korean Met Administration gt HRW should expand its algorithm to other satellites Specific plans exist for together with the rest of NWC SAF products adaptation to Himawari 8 9 series in v2017 and adaptation to GOES R and MTG Imager series in v2020 Extension to additional geostationary satellite series is not foreseen there are already 5 series taken into account in the initial plan for CDOP 3 maybe it co
18. validated for the complete covered areas or for selected scenes covering a broader variability than the current NWCSAF does validation to prove that NWCSAF follows the NWCSAF requirements For cloud products GEO does validation on Europe and since v2016 on the full disc PPS does validation globally e CMSAF gt Comparison studies with different software versions for defined time periods and diverse regions NWCSAF sees this as a very specific requirement that has to be done on CMSAF resources A feedback loop with CMSAF can be useful where NWCSAF PT learns from their results and can use them to improve the NWCSAF products NWCSAF GEO and PPS can promise a comparison of the current version validation with the previous one However the depth of validation performed regionally or over time periods will be determined by NWCSAF requirements only e IPMA gt Adaptation of GEO NWC SAF software for GOES R and Himawari announced for v2016 will be useful at IPMA in the aim of its participation in satellite programs like Copernicus Global Land and MACC It should be highlighted that it is not yet expected that this is only a technical adaptation it is expected that products are calibrated for the new satellites and at some extent validated outside MSG disk region For v2016 only wind products will be adapted to GOES N Adaptation to other satellites is planned for v2017 to be delivered in CDOP 3 and v2020 and the calibration commitment will depend
19. well from v2017 onward if in a well specified agreed format We would like to keep interface parts for the NWC reanalysis parts outside the PPS core package e CMSAF gt The CM SAF uses the supercomputing environment at ECMWF to generate EDR and CDR The current facility at ECMWF is a Cray XC30 system with a Cray Linux Environment as operating system The ECMWF plans to have this environment available until middle of 2018 In addition DWD as the largest meteorological service in Europe is using a Cray XC30 system as well It is therefore likely that CRAY is a key supercomputing environment for meteorological applications in Europe for the next years to decades It is required that the NWC MSG and PPS package are also supported on a CRAY platforms NWC SAF can not commit to support on Cray in the same way as other support commitments First of all we do not have access to a Cray We can offer CM SAF help with the installation and solving possible problems e CMSAF 2 During the evaluation of CM SAF data sets it became evident that the NWC SAF does not provide publically global full disk respectively validation results This led in the case of PPS to some delays and major development tasks During the FA with the LSA and OSI SAF for the first time validation was performed for the full disk which was not available publically from NWC SAF For that reason it is important for climate applications that the quality of the generated cloud products is
20. will consider the possibility of including the EUMETSAT tool for decompressing HRIT files e OMSZ gt It would be good if the user could indicate somehow after the mail closing whether the answer helps to solve the problem or not We can study the possibility of adding a kind of validation box that the user would have to tick in order to rate the usefulness of the answer provided e OMSZ gt We suggest reorganizing the documentation to be more user friendly more manageable We will study the possibility to add some more keys that could help the search e OMSZ gt It would be nice if the spatial resolution of the NWP data could be different for different pressure levels Increasing the spatial resolution in the lower levels is reasonable and beneficial However to use the same high spatial resolution for example at 50 hPa is unnecessary We are working on this We are studying the feasibility to implement it e OMSZ 2 It would be beneficial to help the users who have no access to the ECMWF data or who wish to use another model by a user friendly description and or tool how to calculate bias correction for other NWP models Yes We agree on that and although we have no commitment on this we will do our best to perform this task even inside CDOP 2 if enough resources are available e OMSZ gt Consider using more ECMWF pressure levels Yes We know that there are now 25 ECMWF pressure levels available in the ECMWF MARS It will be
21. would be useful for us o The quality of the high resolution AMV winds product will continue to be important to us and consequently any pre processing step that is required 1 e to determine AMV height assignment is also important Therefore we wonder whether it might be feasible for some of the more sophisticated schemes becoming available from EUMETSAT e g the OCA scheme might also answered User 1 o Icing User 2 become part of the SAFNWC system User 3 o PGEIS8CI o PGEI7 ASII NG User 4 Convection Initiation RDT Convection Warning Cloud Microphysics Extrapolated Imagery ASII New Generation oo O Oo O EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 16 43 Which new MTG based Nowcasting products could be of interest for your service 4 users answered User 1 User 2 User 3 User 4 oO Oo O O Oo Oo OQ oO OQ Cloud base level if possible Intra cloud water information or profiling as possible Wind profiles Any other parameter directly related to surface sensible weather that can reasonably be computed Better thin cirrus detection Lightning Imager for lightning over AfricaPGE17 ASII NG Convection Initiation RDT Convection Warning Cloud Microphysics Ex
22. 0 Range Forecasting Page 41 43 e CMSAF gt Furthermore the compilation of individual software packages should be possible modular with clear log files to support the implementation work See answer for GEO e CMSAF gt The concept of climate services is to provide long term data sets with latest observed data based on the same software version Therefore from the climate point of view it is important that interfaces for new satellites can also be implemented in older software versions of NWC PPS and NWC MSG to enable to have stable versions for the generation of long time series Viceversa CM SAF requires interfaces to older satellites e g from NOAA or MSG which should be supported in new upcoming NWC SAF software versions In particular for PPS input data in GAC and LAC resolution as well should be covered also in upcoming PPS versions For PPS any new satellites need to be considered agreed on a case by case basis New satellites launched in the same family can likely be supported given that the RTTOV version used in the old package will support this satellite e CMSAF gt In the next phase CM SAF plans to evaluate the benefit of an enhanced set of sensors satellites with potential use for climate monitoring purposes in the future These are for instance upcoming Chinese polar satellite sensors in early morning orbit or the SLSTR sensor on Sentinel 3 Data from these satellites should also be taken into account in c
23. 22 12 24 I 20 18 22 12 B 22 20 GOES N 13 14 15 2 2 2 p 3 3 0 2 0 2 1 2 2 1 3 1 GOES R 8 8 8 4 5 4 0 4 0 6 5 4 3 Jl 5 3 COMS 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 GEO KOMPSAT 2 1 1 1 1 2 I 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 MTSAT 7 6 6 4 4 3 2 S 2 4 3 n 2 0 2 2 HIMAWARI 8 9 8 8 8 2 B 4 2 B 2 5 4 il 2 0 2 2 INSAT 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ELECTRO L JL 1 1 1 JL 0 0 1 0 1L 1 1 0 0 1 il FY 4 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 il 1 0 1 il EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility to NoWCasting amp Very Short Range Forecasting Users Workshop Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Page 15 43 Could you please specify your future needs in Nowcasting 27 answers Users future needs in Nowcasting Cloud Pre convective Environment Convection Initiation Clear Air Pre convective Environment Instability Thunderstorm Warning and Tracking Cloud Top Microphysics Cumulus Stratus distinction Precipitation probability and rate Extrapolated Imagery Atmospheric Motion Vectors AMVs for a specific need Detection tracking and forecast of dry intrusions Other 19 10 15 20 25 Which new Nowcasting products to be codified at NWCSAF could cover your needs 4 users o Use of other MTG instruments e g Lightning sensor to improve RDT o Discrimination between convective and non convective cloud pixels
24. ET MGT REP 03 v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 24 43 3 5 2 7 ASII PGE10 Automatic Satellite Images Interpretation e There is no internal agreement on its use It is proposed that a survey on operational use is conducted by the NWC SAF and information is reflected in the documentation e Information on conceptionel model Shapiro Keyser ASII was declared scientifically frozen during CDOP 2 What is more see e g preceding statement the ASII general algorithmic concept is under scrutiny and not too likely to survive into the MTG era Consequently we take note of the request but see no chance to address it in the short run 3 5 2 8 RDT PGE11 Rapid Development Thunderstorms e Lack of continuity in convective cells lifecycle too large non representative extent Earliest stages are important Convective initiation subproduct is of course aimed it is also proposed that BUFR product of convective cells also includes the very first detection before convective test Lifecycle of the cells is assessed mixing statistical rules and empirical rules Priority is given to the detection of phase of lifecycle at a given slot rather than the respect of classical lifecycle continuity Nevertheless continuity can be improved Up to now when the Yes convection diagnosis does not come statistical part of discrimination process but is driven by overshooting top or lightning presence the Yes convection is not taken into account in heritage Will be
25. Froduch ssassn A S 4 1 5 Automalie Satellite Imazes Interpretation sive era i i ae veal RS ura S E ESE A ESEA 39 4 1 6 Convection Products 4 1 7 Physical Retrieval or Clear Air Parameters ses ato sbi ei ea E a OTO abu ees E A 37 4 1 8 EXIM extrapolated I WIgEery u secessit iret EE REREEEESEXEHS ENERGY ENEEAEEEEHIS AERIS A AORE 39 4 1 9 MIG general HH 39 4 2 PPS PACKAGE E E E EE 4 2 1 ENGINEERING 4 2 2 Cloud Proditisuouaodusdnitad iamen did an ea c me ed e ne n p d dd e aah 4 2 3 PYCCHIONON Prodich ici ete atte mtn uat en saab tia paste va teda 42 4 2 4 MIUICTOPIYSICS mE T 43 EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 5 43 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1 PURPOSE The purpose of the document is to report on 2014 User Survey and 2015 Users Workshop for the CDOP 3 User Requirements Collection process 1 2 SCOPE The document contains information compiled about the use of both packages MSG and PPS the environment where the users are running the software the use and evaluation of every product and the users needs in Nowcasting for the future 1 3 DEFINITIONS AND ACRONYMS See RD 1 for a complete list of acronyms for the SAFNWC project 1 4 REFERENCES 1 4 4
26. MSG v2013 SAFNWC MSG v2012 Other Other SAFNWC MSGv2011 Please specify your application environment 28 answers Almost every user who answered this question was using a Linux operating system with a different version one from each other As a summary they have been put together by flavours Red Hat 8 SUSE 5 Fedora 4 CentOS 4 Debian 3 Ubuntu 2 Linux without specification 4 One user says to use AIX 6 1 operating system and another one uses Cray CLE 5 2 Please note that some of them may have more than one package installed more than one operating system used Please specify the characteristics of the Numerical Model you use 23 answers The NWP model that most users ingest in their installation is ECMWF but there are other NWP models used The temporal spatial and vertical resolution varies almost with every user ECMWF 16 UKMO Unified Model 2 HIRLAM 2 ALADIN 2 ARPEGE 1 COSMO 1 GME 1 Please note that one user can be using more than one NWP model EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility to NoWCasting amp Very Short Range Forecasting Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Page 12 43 They were also asked about the use of NWP in Pressure or Hybrid levels e Pressure levels 13 e Hybrid levels 1 e Both 6 Do y
27. Products presented by developers continuation EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility to NoWCasting amp Very Short Range Forecasting Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Users Workshop Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Page 7 43 o Users Presentations special interest in users feedback usefulness improvement suggestions case studies validation studies e Third day morning session o 2015 Users Survey results presentation o New Users Requirements for CDOP 3 o Plenary session conclusions In order to collect the User Requirements 4 easels were disposed in the meeting room to allow users to write their interests on NWC SAF improvements for the next phase These requirements were discussed during the last session EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility to NoWCasting amp Very Short Range Forecasting Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Users Workshop Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Page 8 43 3 SURVEY RESULTS The Nowcasting SAF had 114 licensed users at the survey delivery time of which 43 users answered the questionnaire 41 of them answered the MSG part and 10 users the PPS part One user answered that they were not using any of the packages due to lack of resources The survey was anonymous although
28. RS service would you be interested in 11 answers e also receiving products for VIIRS S NPP 8 e also receiving CPP products cloud microphysical parameters 4 e also receiving precipitation products 6 3 5 REQUESTED IMPROVEMENTS SURVEY SUMMARY Comments by the Project Team if any have been included in italics 3 5 1 HELP DESK e I would like to have it extended to become a forum on use of products but agree it is difficult because not the initial purpose We don t think it would be much more useful for the user than the current Mail Box It has to be noticed that when a user writes a mail it is also sent to all the users so if someone feels that they can provide any advice on the topic they can write their own contribution as well In fact this has happened some times e It has always worked very well for me The only remark is that sometimes users don t report how a given problem ended the mail is closed but I am not completely sure if there was just nothing else to report because the suggested procedure solved the problem or if the user solved the problem in any other way This change could be implemented but we doubt about its usefulness It would be on users side the task of marking the mail as solved and most of the times for sure they will forget doing it after having implemented the solution proposed by the Project Team We can study the possibility of adding a kind of validation box th
29. _v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 42 43 e LSASAF gt LSA SAF will use Cloud Mask and Cloud type products from NWC SAF PPS package for operational Day 1 products derived from Metop SG MetImage therefore software package with corresponding configuration files must be ready beforehand minimum 1 month before Moreover if possible the LSA SAF would be willing to use a beta version as soon as it is ready Requirement and offer of beta testing accepted e NMA gt We would like to have the software adapted to ingest EPS SG data Requirement accepted e OSISAF gt Requests adaptation of PPS version 2017 to be able to process SLSTR data minimum Cloud mask to be used in the OSISAF sea ice temperature product Accepted but implementation needs to be prioritized against other work We currently investigate whether adaptation to Sentinel3 SLSTR not including forward view can be prepared in CDOP2 to become operational in PPSv2017 at least for PGEOI 03 Nordic users granted support for reprioritisations which need to be formulated in a request to change project plan and finally on SG approval 4 2 2 Cloud Products e OSISAF gt Recommend for providing better error characteristics with the PPS cloud products Accepted Needs to be elaborated further between OSISAF and NWCSAF e OSISAF gt Interest in the current R amp D work aiming at providing a cloud probability estimate as part of the PPS cloud mask can it help the ice cl
30. always worked very well for me The only remark is that sometimes users don t report how a given problem ended the mail is closed but I am not completely sure if there was just nothing else to report because the suggested procedure solved the problem or if the user solved the problem in any other way e When I log into the NWCSAF Help Desk I always seem to get a This Connection is Untrusted security error message and I have to add a security exception if I want to proceed This is not particularly satisfactory e The web page is a bit messy and it is not intuitive to find the information you need quickly Too much clutter obscures the view Navigation panel to the left is not user friendly e Provide trajectory to geographical object for tracking over time e I m thinking that the very definition of a helpdesk system where every question pops up as a task and by definition only wants to be cleared finished by people in response seat really doesn t take into account the full knowledge of the community if you were to set up in parallel maybe a forum where people can chip in and help interact it might be beneficial for all what weighs against this would be the secretiveness of the sector with private and state institutions and their considerations but I think in the end it would turn out well and be cooperative e Structuring the messages in the mailbox according to topic installation of software product content product quality
31. at the user would have to tick in order to rate the usefulness of the answer provided e When I log into the NWCSAF Help Desk I always seem to get a This Connection is Untrusted security error message and I have to add a security exception if I want to proceed This is not particularly satisfactory We are sorry for this inconvenience but for the moment we don t see the possibility to change the security certificate e The web page is a bit messy and it is not intuitive to find the information you need quickly Too much clutter obscures the view Navigation panel to the left is not user friendly For the moment we have no plans of changing the website general design we don t find it that messy e Provide trajectory to geographical object for tracking over time NWCSAF Project Team does not understand what the user means e Tm thinking that the very definition of a helpdesk system where every question pops up as a task and by definition only wants to be cleared finished by people in response seat really doesn t take into account the full knowledge of the community if you were to set up in parallel maybe a forum where people can chip in and help interact it might be beneficial for all what weighs against this would be the secretiveness of the sector with private and state institutions and their considerations but I think in the end it would turn out well and be cooperative See answer to the first request e Structuring the messag
32. ative near fire an slight improvement will be implemented in v2016 CDOP2 e Twilight conditions information on minimum size of area will be given in SUM e GEO CMIC color bars are harmonized with PPS CPP e Size of rectangle in CTTH is configurable by the user by default 16 EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 33 43 CMIC Cloud microphysics will be implemented in v2016 CDOP2 it includes cloud phase cloud optical thickness effective particle size liquid ice water path Postponed not before CDOP4 Microphysics at night time cloud phase will be available at night time in CMIC v2016 CDOP2 but additional parameters are not planned before CDOP4 Inclusion of smoke flag not before CDOP4 Improve the dust and volcanic ash flags by using the new visible and NIR channels on MTG not before CDOP4 Miscellaneous NWCSAF can commit to deliver the GEO CLoud products SW some time in advance to the SAFs Project Teams that require it OSI SAF LSA SAF and NWP SAF the latest date among 6 months after availability of the MTG test datasets or 6 months before MTG launch Better identification of very low clouds fogs no plan for improvement except stratiform cumuliform separation Distinct
33. can still run with old algorithms Thus an update of the algorithms is not necessary in this case which is a critical requirement for climate monitoring applications NWCSAF Project Team can not commit to support more than two NWCSAF SW versions Such a general requirement could become very demanding The NWCSAF resources are dedicated to improve the products for Nowcasting purposes The support for old versions has to be specified in more detail which versions and what is needed Then NWC SAF PT can decide on the feasibility to support or help CM SAF team e CMSAF gt For the climate data records a reliable and best possible calibration and inter calibration of satellite data is very important Therefore for CM SAF it is required that the processing of parts of the chain is possible e g start with L1c data as input without the need of L1b data being available Again NWC SAF can not commit to a general requirement The feasibility of the particular requirement of ingesting level Ic can be discussed together with CM SAF team For PPS in principle running from level Ic is not a problem for future versions and was asked for by several users Details would need to be agreed and we would only support one well specified PPS internal level Ic format Netcdf e CMSAF gt Furthermore the compilation of individual software packages should be possible modular with clear log files to support the implementation work NWCSAF PT would need a clarifica
34. changed in v2016 RDT algorithm does not detect the core of convective cell but their general outline Size of cells is defined by the detection part of the algorithm and is more representative of tower base An additional contour has been implemented in v2012 this contour is smaller and closer to top of clouds Concerning the BUFR remark the argument bufr in configuration file can be chosen to satisfy yours needs When the argument is set to 1 2 3 or 4 all cells are described even non convective cells When the argument is set to 3 or 4 only convective cells are described but when they are convective for the first time all their history is provided RDT has already an early diagnosis 2596 of convective systems are diagnosed before convection occurs But that is not the main goal of RDT And early diagnosis may be misunderstood with False Alarm It would be difficult to increase early diagnosis feature of RDT That s the reason why a new product will be developed and delivered in v2016 Convection Initiation Product But RDT will keep the possibility to have an early diagnosis e Essential to have this product converted to HDF the in built converter does not function well Up to now bufr2hdf tool is compliant only with first version of BUFR v2016 new netcdf format will help the conversion e Very bad format would be better in HDF or at least with a working converter See above e Difficult to visualize See above e C
35. cluded for this product v2016 3 5 3 PPS PACKAGE 3 5 8 1 CMA PGE01 Cloud Mask e S NPP cloud products at highest possible resolution 375m at nadir instead of 750m We will consider this requirement in prototyping for v2017 Implementation is either foreseen for highest possible resolution TBD or just incorporating information from high resolution channels e Aerosol cloud separation esp of volcanic origin Accepted Aerosol flag planned for v2017 3 5 3 2 CT PGE02 Cloud Type e Cumulus Stratus distinction This remains TBD We would like to await GEO development results before deciding whether to implement anything in PPS Possible implementation time TBD e S NPP cloud products at highest possible resolution 375m at nadir instead of 750m We will consider this requirement in prototyping for v2017 Implementation is either foreseen for highest possible resolution TBD or just incorporating information from high resolution channels e Fog low clouds distinction Will be considered needs further investigation and can not rely on satellite only EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 26 43 e Cloud base height Not prioritized too many assumptions needed and quality doubtful e F
36. csce3 sc2s542scassszeccead gaseasbeveesdeseatossesedeatanseeesegesedeeoasseeusuestabetuant 3 5 2 6 HRW PGE09 High Resolution Winds 3 27 ASII PGE10 A toniauc Satellite Images Interpretation oerte terrre tte tbe tentes etel 3 5 2 8 RDT PGE11 Rapid Development Thunderstorms 1 ceteri etse tenet ene te testet ene atiri Raa 3 5 2 9 SPhR PGE13 SEVIRI Physical Retrieval of Clear Air Parameters 3 5 2 10 PCPh PGE14 Precipitating Clouds based on Cloud Physical Properties 3 5 2 4 CRPh PGE14 Convective Rainfall Rate based on Cloud Physical Properties 3 5 3 PPS PACKAGE sexu a viuiupdsbeca erui ei uter Mp einn o pea ibaa aua Meneses 3 5 3 1 CMA PGEO01 Cloud Mask 3 32 CV PGEO2 Cloud Type usse nen h re Ee Robe nS ex Shen ee en 3 5 3 3 CTTH PGE05 Cloud Top Temperature and Height nece opened eene 3 5 3 4 PC PGEUA Precipitating CIoUd 2 2 2 aiuto a ERE etin Hle ea turae aee Heo een E Benin deoa tu PHo arae ERES 3 5 3 5 CMIC PGE05 Cloud Microphysics 3 53 26 STUDS ib eM acysBtnsaet tue ius stacy dow aioe taep ta tolasspcucod way dey tuny tuteteautetetwe A WORKSHOP OUTCOME ON USER REQUIREMENTS sscsssssssssscesssersssscscsserssssessssssssssessssnscesesssssssssesesess 27 Bil INISG PACKAGE o M 4 1 1 ENGINEERING AND HELPDESK 4 1 2 Cloud Productsasasuaascsacodeneqe 4 1 3 Precipitation Products issis 4 1 4 Winds
37. d masking too conservative better identification of thin clouds is required e IPMA gt The NWC SAF GEO developers should recommend to the users what size a region should be configured with to minimize bad detection of clouds in twilight conditions e g size of the region in configuration file should be equal to x times the region of interest This information should be clear to users and included in the Software User Manual for the SAFNWC MSG Application Software Part e IPMA gt Homogeneity of the colorbars between GEO and PPS products for CPP products e DWD gt Reduce the size of rectangles in CTTH e OMSZ gt Looking forward the cloud top microphysics related products Beside the cloud top phase the effective radius of the cloud top particles also holds useful information for interested forecasters researchers for example on storm severity or for verification of the numerical simulation results The new channel NIR2 2 will help to retrieve even more accurate effective cloud top particle size values e OMSZ gt Requirements concerning the thin cirrus clouds o Improve the detection of very thin cirrus clouds with MSG if possible with the MTG new NIRI 3 channel and better spatial resolution o Improve the reliability of the cirrus over lower clouds class if possible o Improve the separation between the very thin semitransparent clouds and fractional clouds with MTG NIRI 3 e OMSZ gt It would be useful to have sepa
38. e 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 32 43 We suggest considering to solve this problem in the following way The best solution would be to detect the ring U V shapes with a pattern recognition algorithm maybe by RDT And then to retrieve the cloud top height and pressure supposing that the cloud top is above the tropopause level Or at least fill the ring U V shapes in the cloud top height pressure products but not in the cloud top temperature product e CMSAF gt For climate applications it is important to achieve consistency between the geostationary cloud property retrieval with that for the polar part Both packages are essentially based on the same channels which is different for cloud top and cloud mask Thus for CM SAF it is beneficial to apply the same algorithm to both satellite e AEMET NWP 2 Distinction between fog and low clouds e NMA gt Looking forward for the new CMIC product e NMA gt Better stratiform cumuliform clouds separation using MTG higher spatial resolution channels e NMA and NWPSAF gt Improve the detection of thin cirrus clouds using the MTG new channels 1 38 and 2 2 e NMA gt Improve the separation between cirrus and fractional low clouds e NMA gt Better separation snow clear land using combined reflectances from MTG channels 1 6 and 2 25 e OSISAF and LSASAF gt GEO software ready for cloud produc
39. es in the mailbox according to topic installation of software product content product quality a bit more could be helpful We will study the possibility to add some more keys that could help the search EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 23 43 e Access to document not easy for example rank key in search tools reinitialized at each request no guidelines for the search Same as previous one 3 5 2 MSG PACKAGE 3 5 2 1 CMA PGE01 Cloud Mask e Improvement of Land Sea mask e Icing e Intra cloud water information or profiling 3 5 2 2 CT PGE02 Cloud Type We want to use additional information in last versions e g water phase flag Discrimination between convective and non convective clouds Cumulus Stratus distinction Fog and Low cloud identification and tracking Cloud base level Better thin cirrus detection 3 5 2 8 CTTH PGE03 Cloud Top Temperature and Height e In general good results problems when inversions are present or in case of cb clouds with overshooting tops e More information in case of broken and multilevel cloudiness would be useful e Poor accuracy for convective systems usually underestimates height Default resolution for NWP is too low 16x16 pixe
40. improved in v2013 The use of HRW in case of uncertainty on father cell and in case of incoherency in speed estimate in a given area will help the tracking and so the forecast part of RDT v2016 and v2018 EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 37 43 e OMSZ gt It might be useful to have a Lifting velocity vertical speed of the cloud top height lifting in m sec It is important mainly in the developing phase RDT provides cooling rate The lifting speed could be given additionally Some forecasters feel that the lifting speed is more expressive v2018 Additional attribute e OMSZ 2 Adapt RDT and CI products to MTG v2019 version MTG ready and v2022 version that will take more benefit from MTG e OMSZ gt Use LI data of MTG v2022 e OMSZ gt To take into account the case of cirrus over low clouds as non detection cause for CI Using the cloud type product that defines this type a specific CI detection can be performed on these particular pixels Foreseen for v2018 e NMA gt Looking forward for the Convective Initiation product v2016 e NMA 2 Include MTG LI data v2022 e KMA gt unrealistic speed estimate in some cases v2012 Important correction in v2013 Work still ong
41. ion between fog and low clouds fog cannot be identified only using satellite But the stratiform cumuliform separation proposed in CDOP3 should help CMSAF NWCSAF only wants one cloud microphysical product in SAFNWC GEO keeping its own CMIC to which even AEMET precipitation products are tuned CM SAF can develop the interface to plug a different algorithm to the NWCSAF SW using the information in the NWCSAF ICD and other documents if it is of its own interest Icing clouds the CMIC should be a help for users intending to identify icing clouds No reliable icing products can be derived from VIS IR satellite imagery Cloud base no reliable product can be derived from satellite VIS IR imagery Land sea mask Land sea mask is at IR spatial resolution and may appear rough when reprojected against coastline at better spatial resolution gt products at high spatial resolution MTG day 2 CDOP3 are proposed Intra cloud water information or profiling Liquid Water Path CMIC will be available in v2016 CDOP2 and correspond to integrated liquid water content 4 1 3 Precipitation Products OMSZ gt Improve the PC day algorithm at low solar elevation No new efforts will be devoted to this product since new algorithms are being developed for the same purpose OMSZ gt Improve the separation of convective precipitation from non convective This kind of work will be done inside the cloud products As soon as the results are available
42. ject plan to the NWCSAF SG Not having to support PPS precipitation products for CDOP3 releases will free development time for other tasks With MWI ICI we have the possibility of high quality precipitation retrievals from direct broadcast data which will be of interest for Nowcasting It is important not to duplicate scientific development efforts here and therefor adapt algorithms developed by HSAF CMSAF for MWI This precipitation product can be made available in CDOP4 most practically a short time after METOP SG B is declared operational so that the main technical work can be performed in the beginning of CDOP4 4 2 4 Microphysics e IPMA gt More training material case studies on CPP products Will be done in CDOP2 e IPMA gt Include better explanations of the colorbars very important for new users Will be done in CDOP2 e IPMA gt Homogeneity of the colorbars between GEO and PPS products for CPP products MF will consider same colorbars as PPS e CMSAF gt For climate applications it is important to achieve consistency between the geostationary cloud property retrieval with that for the polar part Both packages are essentially based on the same channels which is different for cloud top and cloud mask Thus for CM SAF it is beneficial to apply the same algorithm to both satellites See answer given in GEO part
43. key web tool containing aspects related to MSG and PPS products and engineering was prepared by the Project Team with the following objectives Assess the current status of products and engineering Know the Nowcasting needs Collect new user requirements for CDOP3 2 3 2015 USERS WORKSHOP The first announcement of the Workshop was put in the NEWS page of the NWCSAF Help Desk on 18th September 2014 and the second on the 19th December 2014 There were also notifications sent to all the users by email The workshop was held in Madrid on 24 26 February 2015 at AEMET HQ The objectives of the Users Workshop have been To assess the applicability and usefulness of the NWC SAF products in the current phase CDOP 2 To revise the proposals for further developments To collect the user requirements for the next phase CDOP 3 The Workshop was specially focused on MTG that will become operational during the CDOP 3 and on the EPS SG new generation satellites Users were requested to provide presentations and actively collaborate in the workshop activities along the following sessions e First day morning and afternoon sessions o Welcome Plan for the WS and Current Status and Future Plans of the Nowcasting SAF o Eumetsat SAF Network and New Programmes presentations o NWC SAF Products presented by developers Description CDOP2 future evolution CDOP3 perspective e Second day morning and afternoon sessions o NWC SAF
44. lity to NoWCasting amp Very Short Range Forecasting Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Page 19 43 Please specify your future needs in Nowcasting Future needs in Nowcasting Cumulus Stratus distinction Precipitation probability and rate from cloud top microphysics CPP S NPP cloud products athighest posible resolution 375m atnadir instead of 750m Other o N w AB wu Which developments in PPS would you see as desirable software and products 2 users answered User 1 o Support of Cray environment as platform for PPS User 2 o Cloud base height o Fog probability product Which new Nowcasting products to be codified at NWCSAF could cover your needs 2 users answered User 1 o Cloud base height o Fog probability product User 2 o Aerosol cloud separation esp of volcanic origin o M Detection of supercooled water EPS SG based Nowcasting products that could be of interest for users 4 answers o Ice water path IWP from MWI ICI microwave imager suite 2 o Liquid water path from MWI ICI microwave imager suite 2 o Precipitation rate from MWI ICI microwave imager suite 4 EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date NoWCasting amp
45. ll installation of the software is required to enable an executable version with stable functionality See answer for GEO We think that a closer cooperation could ease the process of patch installation e CMSAF gt Furthermore CM SAF requires that it should be possible to run previous algorithms on data from new satellites if they don t change in terms of available spectral channels or other critical parts A shift to a new satellite in the same satellite series should be realized so that it can still run with old algorithms Thus an update of the algorithms is not necessary in this case which is a critical requirement for climate monitoring applications See answer for GEO e CMSAF 2 For the climate data records a reliable and best possible calibration and inter calibration of satellite data is very important Therefore for CM SAF it is required that the processing of parts of the chain is possible e g start with L1c data as input without the need of L1b data being available In principle running from level Ic is not a problem for future versions and was asked for by several users Details would need to be agreed and we would only support one well specified PPS internal level Ic format Netcdf EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1
46. loud Pre convective Environment Convection Initiation Foreseen for v2016 e Thunderstorm Warning and Tracking Done EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 25 43 e Divergence product to identify strong vertical movements To be analyzed CDOP4 Convergence index inside RDT cell to be studied e Use of other MTG instruments e g Lightning sensor to improve RDT v2022 e Lightning Imager for lightning over Africa v2022 3 5 2 9 SPhR PGE13 SEVIRI Physical Retrieval of Clear Air Parameters e Should be the same algorithm as in PPS only indices for instability please use standard WMO descriptors It seems to be a mistake provided that there is no equivalent algorithm in PPS e Clear Air Pre convective Environment Instability 3 5 2 10 PCPh PGE14 Precipitating Clouds based on Cloud Physical Properties e Nice but misses the area sometimes and needs more calibration This comment will be taken into account A new calibration will be included for this product v2016 3 5 2 11 CRPh PGE14 Convective Rainfall Rate based on Cloud Physical Properties e Nice but misses the area sometimes and needs more calibration This comment will be taken into account A new calibration will be in
47. ls I think e Default output is blocky works much better set to 4 pixel resolution rather than 16 e Cloud Top Microphysics Comments answers on cloud products user requirements expressed in user survey section 3 2 and 3 5 2 and workshop outcome 4 1 2 are summarized at the end of section 4 1 2 3 5 2 4 PC PGE04 Precipitating Clouds e To be replaced in tools by PGE14 once some verification is done and positive e Nice but needs more calibration No new efforts will be devoted to this product since new algorithms are being developed for the same purpose 3 5 2 5 CRR PGEO05 Convective Rainfall Rate e Nice but needs more calibration e We don t have 925 hPa in NWP so Humidity correction does not get done No new efforts will be devoted to this product since new algorithms are being developed for the same purpose 3 5 2 8 HRW PGEO09 High Resolution Winds e Evolving rather in a portable AMV SW for NWP assimilation and general diagnosis that looks reasonable But there should still be place for nowcasting objectives it is asked that low level high resolution motion patterns is a parallel development line with close contribution of users suggested e Hard to implement in visualization e Wind profiles EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEM
48. nal information in last versions e g water phase flag e We use the cloud type product as part of a product for estimating surface sunshine duration As far as I am aware there are no plans to try to discriminate between convective and non convective clouds within PGE02 This would be very useful for us e Feeds into PGE11 CTTH e In general good results problems when inversions are present or in case of cb clouds with overshooting tops e More information in case of broken and multilevel cloudiness would be useful e The CTTH product is produced as a by product of PGEO9 We plan to carry out comparisons with our own CTTH products e Poor accuracy for convective systems usually underestimates height Default resolution for NWP is too low 16x16 pixels I think e Feeds into PGE11 e Default output is blocky works much better set to 4 pixel resolution rather than 16 e Very useful even at high latitudes e To be replaced in tools by PGEI4 once some verification is done and positive e There is the possibility that we might start to use the precip products in the future e Nice but needs more calibration CRR e Only instantaneous is used To be replaced in tools by PGEI4 after verification e There is the possibility that we might start to use the precip products in the future e Nice but needs more calibration e We don t have 925 hPa in NWP so Humidity correction does not get done HRW e Evolving rather in a portable AMV
49. o NWCSAF products for the Rapid Scan Service and they will not understand if they can not be generated for the new EUMETSAT satellite MTG e Delia Guti rrez AEMET that works in the AFRIMET cooperation program of AEMET and WMO with West African NMHSs remarks the lack of observations in Africa and the benefit that the generation of vertical profiles and or other products from the MTG IRS could imply for Africa She also recognises the difficulties these countries have to download and use operationally the SW NWCSAF has plans for a SW package to generate vertical profiles from MTG IRS data also outside of LAC 4 NWCSAF can not commit to deliver profiles Other initiatives could benefit from the NWCSAF SW to generate the profiles for African Countries EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 40 43 4 2 PPS PACKAGE 4 2 1 ENGINEERING e An API to call PPS on Level 1 files E g run pps noaal9 11b run pps sdrfilel sdrfile2 or run pps cmask noaal9 I1b Requirement accepted at least for the currently supported level I files There will also be an interface to an internal levell NetCDF file format common to all supported satellites e OSISAF gt PPS software ready for cloud products CMa CT at Day 1
50. o supported on a CRAY platforms NWC SAF can not commit to support on Cray in the same way as other support commitments We can offer CM SAF to help with the installation and solving possible problems e CMSAF 2 During the evaluation of CM SAF data sets it became evident that the NWC SAF does not provide publically global full disk respectively validation results This led in the case of PPS to some delays and major development tasks During the FA with the LSA and OSI SAF for the first time validation was performed for the full disk which was not available publically from NWC SAF For that reason it is important for climate applications that the quality of the generated cloud products is validated for the complete covered areas or for selected scenes covering a broader variability than the current Validation for PPS is done globally and compared to the previous version Scope of the validation performed is to verify NWCSAF product requirements See even answer for GEO e IPMA gt Monitoring of processing progress of NWC SAF GEO and PPS packages is not user friendly A graphical interface should be made available to the users Requirement not accepted for PPS which does not support a task manager any longer EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03
51. og probability product Will be considered needs further investigation and can not rely on satellite only 3 5 8 8 CTTH PGEO3 Cloud Top Temperature and Height e S NPP cloud products at highest possible resolution 375m at nadir instead of 750m TBD Is this really useful for CTTH Computationally expensive 3 5 3 4 PC PGE04 Precipitating Clouds 3 5 3 5 CMIC PGE05 Cloud Microphysics e Should be consistent with NWCSAF MSG CPP Will not be done during CDOP3 e Precipitation probability and rate from cloud top microphysics CPP We propose not to do this development See discussion under section 4 2 3 e Detection of supercooled water Will not be done Only possible near cloud top For that we do not really see usefulness in aviation applications The user could combine phase information with CTTH information for an indication of supercooled water near cloud top 3 5 3 6 Engineering e Support of Cray environment as platform for PPS Limited support can be provided see answer to CMSAF request in sections 4 1 1 and 4 2 1 EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 27 43 4 WORKSHOP OUTCOME ON USER REQUIREMENTS The outcome of the workshop is a summary of different sources of inputs P
52. oing 4 1 7 Physical Retrieval of Clear Air Parameters e IPMA gt Instability indices from MTG Sounder Vertical Profiles in all sky conditions OK It would be studied the all sky conditions over clouds and at least partly cloudy conditions will be implemented e Profiles available as optional outputs OK It would be retained the possibility to write binary files with optional outputs e OMSZ 2 As the satellite info in included in the fist guess the algorithm is sensible to the undetected thin cirrus clouds clouds It would be less sensible if the first guess did not contain satellite measured information OK It will be included the possibility that users can configure the use as First Guess directly the NWP profiles instead to calculate the First Guess profiles with the non linear regression from the NWP profiles and the bias corrected BTs But in this case the algorithm will be considerably slower since the physical retrieval step must be applied to all pixels To detect the presence of cirrus signal the residual distance between bias corrected BTs and synthetic BTs on non window channels could be monitored In the case of MTG FCI and Himawari or GOES R versions the cloud mask will be better on day slots with the VIS1 3 channel e OMSZ gt Include the information of the new VISO 9 channel of MTG to retrieve improve low level humidity OK It would be possible but to manage the VIS channels and IR channels to retrieve improve low le
53. on the product e IPMA gt Monitoring of processing progress of NWC SAF GEO and PPS packages is not user friendly A graphical interface should be made available to the users It is not considered a priority at the moment EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 31 43 e MHS Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Croatia gt Provide a quick and easy start documentation for new users NWCSAF will consider to provide a quick start documentation for new users although there exists already the Section Quick start on the Software User Manual document e MHS gt Make it easier to reprocess several slots present in the import directory without modifying the configuration files We will consider the possibility to improve the NWCSAF software reprocessing capabilities 4 1 2 Cloud Products High priority for Cumuliform Stratiform separation many applications depend on that specially convection Provision of Microphysics during night time LSASAF gt Possibility to add smoke fires flag in CMA product IPMA cloud screening improvement in particular over very cold surfaces IPMA gt Better identification of very low clouds fogs IPMA LSASAF developers of fire products find the clou
54. onsiderations for future NWC SAF software versions Accepted Chinese polar orbiters are planned to be supported from FY 3D onward MERSI 2 instrument implementation planed in PPS v2019 We currently investigate whether adaptation to Sentinel3 SLSTR not including forward view can be prepared in CDOP2 to become operational in PPSv2017 at least for PGEO01 03 Nordic users granted support for reprioritisations which need to be formulated in a request to change project plan and finally on SG approval e CMSAF gt CM SAF sees it as advantage that both SW package are able to be run with Reanalyses data as well as with forecast fields This should be taken into account also in upcoming NWC SW packages Thereby a clear and flexible module to ERA and ERA interim data in grib2 and netcdf as input for the CM SAF CDR processing should be part of the software Accepted functionality will be kept e CMSAF gt The CM SAF uses the supercomputing environment at ECMWF to generate EDR and CDR The current facility at ECMWF is a Cray XC30 system with a Cray Linux Environment as operating system The ECMWF plans to have this environment available until middle of 2018 In addition DWD as the largest meteorological service in Europe is using a Cray XC30 system as well It is therefore likely that CRAY is a key supercomputing environment for meteorological applications in Europe for the next years to decades It is required that the NWC MSG and PPS package are als
55. ou receive NWP in Hybrid Levels in your system 28 answers o EE TS 2 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 Which of the current SAFNWC MSG Products are you using 33 answers 35 30 25 20 15 10 a 26 20 20 14 us 10 10 10 PGE01 PGEO02 PGE03 PGE04 PGE05 PGE09 PGE10 PGEll PGE13 PGE14 PGE14 Cma CT CTTH PC CRR HRW ASII RDT SPhR PCPh CRPh Could you please rate the usefulness of the products you are using 27 answers 10 00 9 00 8 00 8 3 uf 8 1 UD vn ies um 7 00 6 4 67 70 6 00 5 00 25 4 00 3 00 2 00 1 00 0 00 r r r r r r r r r r i PGE01 PGE02 PGE03 PGE04 PGE05 PGE09 PGE10 PGEll PGE13 PGEl4 PGE14 CMa CT CTTH PC CRR HRW ASII RDT SPhR PCPh CRPh EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 13 43 Would you like to make any comment or remark about any product 9 answers CMA e We use dust and snow flags e The CMa product is produced as a by product of PGE09 We plan to carry out comparisons with our own cloud mask product e Land Sea mask for this product is terrible results in many false cloud detections e Feeds into PGE11 e We want to use additio
56. oud open ocean discrimination in the polar regions in wintertime conditions Interest welcome Needs further collaborative work between OSISAF and NWCSAF e NMA gt Better cumulus stratus separation This remains TBD We would like to await GEO development results before deciding whether to implement anything in PPS Possible implementation time TBD e NMA Suomi NPP cloud products at highest possible resolution We will consider this requirement in prototyping for v2017 Implementation is either foreseen for highest possible resolution TBD or just incorporating information from high resolution channels 4 2 3 Precipitation Product e No requirements raised Priority of precipitation product development in CDOP2 and CDOP3 against other user requests In the workshop presentation on PPS precipitation products and plans users were asked about their actual Nowcasting needs from polar orbiters regarding VIS IR retrieval of daytime rain rate foreseen for version 2017 according to current project plan the future of the current PC product using MHS only and whether there is a need for a day software for a MWI ICI precipitation retrieval or whether this development could be concluded as a day 2 product in CDOP4 There was no concrete response of users Seeing a need to prioritise resources we checked requirements with our key users on the Nordmet Satellite working group 5 7 March which is attended by all Scandinavian and Baltic states The
57. rate classes for cumuliform and stratiform opaque clouds This might be easier with the higher spatial resolution of MTG The separation could be useful for example o in case of dry convergence lines with no radar signal only satellite The cumuliform pattern its temporal evolution could refer to strong wind o for aviation meteorologists It is very important to separate the fog low stratus from other clouds like stratocumulus A cumuliform and stratiform separation could help in this OMSZ gt Use the new NIR2 2 channel of MTG to improve the snow detection OMSZ gt Improve the dust and volcanic ash flags by using the new visible and NIR channels on MTG OMSZ gt Consider creating flag for smoke plume caused by fire as well if it is possible reasonable OMSZ gt Some cloud top features like cold ring cold U V features can cause mistakes in CTTH The cloud top of a storm penetrated in the tropopause lower stratosphere often shows cold ring or cold U V shape in the IR10 8 channel having a warmer area in the middle However the cloud top height pressure of this warmer spot is higher lower than that of the anvil according the radar measurements Presently the NWCSAF algorithm usually retrieves lower height higher pressure for these warm spots as it looks for a solution only until the tropopause EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Dat
58. resentations made by users Notes on the easels by the users Emails received from users that were not able to attend the Workshop Emails from users that attended the workshop but realised afterwards they had missed to share something e g AEMET NWP Reports made by key users e g CMSAF LSASAF Romanian Met Service NMA Hungarian Met Service OMSZ etc Requirements from previous Workshops or Meetings The answers or comments provided by the Project Team have been included in italics 4 1 MSG PACKAGE 4 1 1 ENGINEERING AND HELPDESK e Possibility to ingest hybrid levels in all MSG products It will be studied for future versions depending on the product e Provide the Reference System products using web services The NWC SAF is not intended to provide products but software The Reference System is only design as a help tool for the users to check that they are obtaining coherent products especially when running the software for the first time e OSISAF LSASAF and NWPSAF gt GEO software ready for cloud products CMa CT at Day 1 of MTG FCI satellite and at Day 1 of GOES R or GOES S depending on which one will be in GOES East position Software has to be ready and made available sufficiently in advance 1 year minimum NWCSAF can commit to deliver the GEO Cloud products SW some time in advance to the SAFs Project Teams that require it OSI SAF LSA SAF and NWP SAF How much time in advance does not depend
59. sensors in early morning orbit or the SLSTR sensor on Sentinel 3 Data from these satellites should also be taken into account in considerations for future NWC SAF software versions We welcome the requirement posed Chinese polar orbiters are planned to be supported from FY 3D onward MERSI 2 instrument implementation planed in PPS v2019 We currently investigate whether adaptation to Sentinel3 SLSTR not including forward view can be prepared in CDOP2 to become operational in PPSv2017 at least for PGEO1 03 This depends on support by users for reprioritisations to be formulated before summer and finally on SG approval e CMSAF gt CM SAF sees it as advantage that both SW package are able to be run with Reanalyses data as well as with forecast fields This should be taken into account also in upcoming NWC SW packages Functionality will be kept EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 30 43 e CMSAF gt A clear and flexible module to ERA and ERA interim data in grib2 and netcdf as input for the CM SAF CDR processing should be part of the software For older versions of SAFNWC we can not do it For GEO Currently only grib formats are supported For PPS It might be possible to ingest netcdf data as
60. the users were given the chance to identify themselves and 23 of them did so All the questions except two were optional The 2014 Users Survey has proved the good shape of the NWC SAF products at the current phase and users have provided a lot of suggestions for the CDOP 3 as shown below 3 1 GENERAL QUESTIONS Which of the following options suits best your type of user Compulsory National Meteorological Service University Research Center Private Company Private User Other 20 25 30 iM Other Eumetsat How often do you access NWCSAF Help Desk www nwcsaf org 43 answers 21 m Every day m Few times a week o Few times a month o Less than once a month EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 9 43 Could you please rate the usefulness of the NWCSAF Help Desk 39 answers i 2 m 4 5 6 i 8 9 10 How do you think NWCSAF Help Desk could be improved 8 answers Average 8 0 e am nota direct user of NWC SAF SW but of NWC SAF products and would like to have it extended to become a forum on use of products but agree it is difficult because not the initial purpose e It has
61. tion on this requirement e CMSAF gt The concept of climate services is to provide long term data sets with latest observed data based on the same software version Therefore from the climate point of view it is important that interfaces for new satellites can also be implemented in older software versions of NWC PPS and NWC MSG to enable to have stable versions for the generation of long time series Viceversa CM SAF requires interfaces to older satellites e g from NOAA or MSG which should be supported in new upcoming NWC SAF software versions In particular for PPS input data in GAC and LAC resolution as well should be covered also in upcoming PPS versions A SW version can support current and old satellites if channels needed available as a general rule if needed we can not commit to extra work But NWCSAF can not commit to support future satellites for an old SW version We do not have enough resources and we have other commitments Such a requirement is not in the scope of NWC SAF For PPS any new satellites need to be considered agreed on a case by case basis New satellites launched in the same family can likely be supported given that the RTTOV version used in the old package will support this satellite e CMSAF gt In the next phase CM SAF plans to evaluate the benefit of an enhanced set of sensors satellites with potential use for climate monitoring purposes in the future These are for instance upcoming Chinese polar satellite
62. trapolated Imagery ASII New Generation Are you using or have you used MSG Rapid Scan Service images to run NWCSAF software 26 answers Comments Yes 10 e It is suggested that instead of a full independent rapid scan procedure a more adapted or mixed method could be developed by the NWC SAF keeping the basic processing cycle of 15min as it is but maybe delivery each 5min while simplifying tracking time difference overlapping processing and other implications considering the increased frequency Answer by the Project Team Not necessary since that up to now RSS offers same possibilities than FDSS Only for case studies Planned RSS is essential for NWC Have plans to do preoperational tests with RSS data EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 17 43 3 3 PPS PART Which SAFNWC PPS version is running or are you planning to run in your site 6 answers SAFNWC PPS v2014 SAFNWC PPS v2012 SAFNWC PPS v2010 Please specify your application environment 5 answers e Red Hat 3 different versions e SUSE 1 e CentOS 1 One of them also refers to be using Cray CLE 5 2 Please specify the characteristics of the Numerical Model you use
63. ts CMa CT at Day 1 of MTG FCI satellite and at Day 1 of GOES R or GOES S depending on which one will be in GOES East position Software has to be ready and made available sufficiently in advance 1 year minimum e LSASAF2 GEO software ready for cloud products CMa CT at Day 1 of MTG FCI satellite Software has to be ready and made available sufficiently in advance 1 year minimum Below can be found the comments answers on cloud products user requirement expressed in user survey section 3 2 and 3 5 2 and workshop outcome 4 1 2 Proposed to be retained in CDOP3 e Stratiform cumuliform separation proposed for MTG day 2 product CDOP3 e Cloud products from foreign satellites GOES R S and Himawari proposed for v2017 CDOP3 e Improvement of thin cirrus and fractional clouds identification using 1 38micron channel planned in v2017 CDOP3 e Use of 2 25 for snow identification planned in v2017 CDOP3 e Improve CTTH for clouds near tropopause an improvement is planned in v2017 CDOP3 but will not solve cold ring or cold U V situations e More information in case of broken and multilevel cloudiness products at high spatial resolution are proposed for MTG day 2 product CDOP3 which would lead to more information in case broken clouds Implemented in CDOP2 e Better cloud screening over cold surface the use of RTTOV online v2016 CDOP2 should slightly increase the quality of cloud detection e Cloud mask less conserv
64. uld be done through NWC SAF User collaborations and VSAs CGMS 2012 Meeting Report and the 11 and 12 International Winds Workshop IWW 2012 2014 gt HRW should integrate improvements suggested developed by external users NWC SAF Visiting Scientist Activities give the chance to finance and integrate AMV procedures in HRW algorithm in parallel to those developed by the NWC SAF team Some specific man months can be reserved in the VSAs for CDOP 3 for this task 11 and 12 IWW gt Investigation of Nested tracking technique Mesoscale Quality indicators Stereo height assignment technique Nested tracking technique and Mesoscale Quality indicators are going to be taken into account in v2022 for release in the first stages of CDOP 4 Considering the Stereo height assignment techniques there is a need to be able to process more than one satellite at different geostationary locations looking at the same Earth position at the same time On one side this task requires that the NWCSAF libraries are able to process two different satellites at the same time for the processing of one slot On the other side this procedure is much easier when the two geostationary satellites are of the same series Considering that during CDOP 3 satellites of two different series MSG and MTG are going to be located over Europe and Africa and that MSG series is expected to die out in a near moment in the future it is considered that it is
65. umentation we consider now that HRW code and documentation is very easy to understand by anybody who wants to use it e NWC SAF Users s Survey gt Hard to implement in visualization It is expected that with the double option for HRW output in v2016 BUFR or netCDF the visualization of HRW output will be much easier 4 1 5 Automatic Satellite Images Interpretation e OMSZ gt Values of some key parameters in potential pop up windows would provide additional information to see the reason why the automatic algorithm chose this synoptic object e OMSZ 2 Adapt the ASII NG product to Meteosat Third Generation Adaptation of ASII NG is definitely our intention and will be included in the NWCSAF CDOP 3 proposal Concerning the ASII pop up windows which would rather be the output of parameter tables since NWCSAF doesn t provide graphical interfaces this is in fact already present in the software as an option for the developers when in debugging mode we honestly don t think that this will help besides the basic parameters there are spatial relationships involved and ranking rules such as if both conceptual model 1 and conceptual model 2 are possible choose 1 Looking at the complexity of Figures 22 and 23 in the ASII PUM for example one must conclude that it is hopeless to nail down the reasons for a certain choice at a specific grid point in any reasonable time EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03
66. vel humidity only day time will complicate the algorithm now To create just a product based on VIS chanel will distract man power resources and imply to expend time in development and validation Any case this could be considered in CDOP 4 phase EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facility to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03_v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 38 43 e OMSZ gt Use the data of IRS infrared sounding mission of MTG to retrieve 3D temperature and humidity profiles OK It will be included in CDOP 3 proposal e OMSZ gt Calculate total and layer precipitable water values and instability indices from IRS data OK It will be included in CDOP 3 proposal e OMSZ gt Derive low level humidity advection from the 3D humidity and wind products retrieved from IRS data OK It will be considered to do in CDOP 4 as Day 2 products e AEMET It is desirable that some continuity with MSG still to be used developed and even user developed for some years is kept clear air retrieved profiles certainly also and even state of the art extrapolations should remain mandatory given use of thermodynamic profiles SPhR is now assumed and to increase Yes it is in line with NWCSAF plans EUMETSAT Satellite Code NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 Application Facilit
67. winds from an ECMWF short range forecast interpolated at the AMV horizontal and vertical location Best fit height respect to NWP model and AMV statistics against NWP model data can easily be provided in v2017 of SAF GEO package e OMSZ and NWPSAF gt Increase of temporal spatial density of AMVs specially at low levels in line with the use of new satellites series like MTG Imager The increase of temporal spatial density of AMVs implies more evaluation of smaller tracer sizes temporal gaps and the use of a Mixed method between Nominal and Rapid scan through which AMVs are calculated in Nominal scan cycles with Tracking verification considering Rapid scan cycles This can be provided in v2017 of SAF GEO package e NWPSAF gt Option to process other Cloud products for AMV height assignment like EUMETSAT MPEF OCA product EUMETSAT MPEF OCA product is for the moment not operational NWC SAF Project Team considers the processing of OCA for HRW Height assignment as a feasibility study to be done during CDOP 3 If it proves that the quality of NWC SAF HRW AMVs improves with the use of OCA the option to calculate HRW AMVs will be included in SAF GEO package in a moment still not specified e NWPSAF gt Maintain the easy usability of the code and good level of documentation Each step of HRW software code has deeply been recommented throughout CDOP 2 up to v2016 up to the slightest detail Together with the provided doc
68. y to Report on 2014 Users Survey amp 2015 Issue 1 0 Date 15 April 2015 NoWCasting amp Very Short Users Workshop File NWC CDOP2 SAF AEMET MGT REP 03 v1 0 Range Forecasting Page 39 43 4 1 8 EXIM Extrapolated Imagery e Several users expressed their interest in having this product available as soon as possible Yes this is in line with our intentions it shall be included in the next release of NWCSAF GEO 4 1 9 MTG in general e DWD and IPMA gt NWCSAF products with 16 channel FCI RDT v2019 and v2022 e DWD gt NWCSAF products from MTG RSS Also all 2 5 min RDT Highly dependent of Eumetsat RSS strategy e DWD gt NWCSAF products from LI Specially outside Europe RDT For convection product LI will helpful for all regions and will be very helpful in region where there is no lightning network v2022 e DWD NWCSAF products from MTG IRS very important for Nowcasting specially Thunderstorms RDT Postponed issue not clear at the moment and depending of Eumetsat Dayl and Day2 product e IPMA gt IPMA would benefit from the information of vertical profiles from the MTG sounder data for all sky conditions OK It would be studied the all sky conditions over clouds and at least partly cloudy conditions will be implemented e NWPSAF gt Maintain and transfer software for FCI instrument Yes it is planned e M t o France Herve Roquet gt Remarks that forecasters at M t o France are used t

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