Report. Northern Africa. RAIDEG-8, 1-2 Nov 2017

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1 Report Northern Africa RAIDEG-8, 1-2 Nov 2017

2 Report Northern Africa RAIDEG-8, 1-2 Nov 2017 Important Note: Formal letters have been sent from the PR of Morocco with WMO to PRs of Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt with WMO. s have been sent from RAIDEG member (Mrs EL Ouaraini) to many colleagues from Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt. Until today (31/10/2017), we have received replies by from Egypt and Tunisia.

3 1. Status of access to products and training Access to products Messir-MSG from COROBOR systems company MSG Reception stations Egypt Morocco Tunisia Reception station from TECNAVIA S.A. MESSIR-MSG from COROBOR systems company

4 1. Status of access to products and training Case of Morocco: 2 satellite reception systems: Ku and C. Ku band C band C band Ku band

5 1. Status of access to products and training Case of Morocco: 2 satellite reception systems: Ku and C.

6 1. Status of access to products and training Case of Tunisia: 1 satellite reception system: Ku reception. MSG Antenna Eurobird 9 Ku band SERVEUR MESSIR-MSG Acquisition traitement et distribution HF Splitter STATION MESSIR-MSG Visualisation Images et données MDD + Données RETIM Câble croisé Ethernet UPS 3000 VA LaserJet HP 1320 DeskJet HP 9800 Systèmes existants bureau prévision et climatologie LAN Switch Ethernet Export de données MSG vers des systèmes existants

7 1. Status of access to products and training In general, North African countries have Ku reception, they receive most of products, but need others (request license?) Access to training Many people from Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia have benefited from training courses on how they use and interpret some disseminated data and products (online and in-class), organized by WMO and/or EUMETSAT. Nevertheless, the need is still there.

8 2. Status of data and products utilization New requirements (from Egypt) Precipitation products. Better spatial and temporal resolution for the following models than currently received: o Meteo france (global 0.5, 1.0, 1.5) o Wafc London (1.0, and 0.234) o ECMWF (2.5 and 5.5) Satellite data of scatterometer and altimeter over the Red Sea, south and south eastern Mediterranean and Suez Gulf (image and digital data) Satellite data with high resolution and rapid run. Hourly, daily and monthly: Dust, fire smoke, solar radiation data, gases (green house gases, ex ( co2, ch4 and co)), UV index, ozone index, cloud cover, microphysics channel, vegetation index or agrometeorology application, hydrology application data, severe event detector.

9 2. Status of data and products utilization New requirements (from Tunisia) Satellite data for NWP Data Assimilation (AMV, ASCAT, IASI, SSMI/S, AIRS, Geowind, Cris, ) CM SAF products. NWC SAF products.

10 2. Status of data and products utilization New requirements (from Morocco) NWP Data for NWP Data Assimilation (AMV, ASCAT, IASI, SSMI/S, AIRS, Geowind, Cris, ) Nowcasting and short term forecasting Convection indices (CII, MPE, LI ), Global Instability Index - MSG - 0 degree Vegetation Daily Evapotranspiration - MSG Leaf Area Index - MSG Normalised Difference Vegetation Index - MSG - 0 degree Vegetation index - Metop Dry Matter Productivity (DMP) - PROBA-V - Africa

11 2. Status of data and products utilization New requirements (from Morocco) Soil moisture ASCAT Soil Moisture at 12.5 km Swath Grid - Metop ASCAT Winds and Soil Moisture at 12.5 km Swath Grid - Metop Soil Water Index - Metop - Africa Snow Snow Cover - MSG Daily Snow Cover - Metop Snow detection (snow mask) by VIS/IR radiometry MSG Snow status (dry/wet) by MW radiometry Energy 10-Daily Surface Albedo - MSG Surface Albedo - MSG Land Surface Temperature - MSG

12 2. Status of data and products utilization New requirements (from Morocco) Precipitation Dekadal & Montly Rainfall Estimates and anomalies for Africa MSG (netcdf4, PNG) Precipitation Estimation Product - 6 & 24 Hours - Feng-Yun 2G Rainfall Estimate for Africa - MSG Total Precipitable Water Mapped - Multimission Long Term statistics of CHIRPS-RFE - TRMM Hamburg Ocean Atmosphere Parameters and Fluxes from Satellite Data - HOAPS Monthly Means / 6-Hourly Composites Multi-Sensor Precipitation Estimate (GRIB) - MSG - 0 degree Other products Dust surface concentration - NMMB/BSC-Dust Model Dust optical depth at 550 nm - NMMB/BSC-Dust Model IASI Sulfur dioxide Metop Fire Detection and Monitoring MSG H-SAF products (precipitation and Soil Moisture)

13 3. Training New requirements All courses related to how to use and interpret required data and products are welcome. Nevertheless, the following countries have specific training needs. Egypt Marine forecasts, Satellite images Analysis, Ho to use data in assimilated techniques or calibration, How to use radiation data to detect certain phenomena, They ask for the possibility of long-term training for Egyptian meteorologists (master or PhD).

14 3. Training New requirements Morocco Use of Satellite Products in Agrometeorology, for Drought Monitoring and Agro-meteorological Applications. Use of Satellite Data for Climate Services to agriculture and forestry applications e.g. fire hazards, food production and hydrology. Convection indices interpretation (CII, MPE, LI ). How tu use satellite information in climate prediction (from seasonal to decadal scale).

15 4. Recommendations to WMO, EUMETSAT, AMCOMET A REAL optimizing products dissemination process necessarily involves a good understanding (not really the case currently) by the African users of: 1. What is currently available, 2. What are their real needs, 3. What are the limitations they confront (infrastructure problem, human capacity,..). African users community should provide an additional effort in this understanding in order to help in optimizing products dissemination through EUMETCast. WMO and EUMETSAT could provide assistance for better awareness and understanding. Keep good temporal and spatial resolutions of MTG data to disseminate to Africa, however, focus on the restriction of disseminated data products to the essential.

16 Thank you شكرا Merci