1. Operations Report 2008 - CM SAF

Satellite Application Facility on Climate 

Monitoring 

1 st Operations Report 2008 

January 2008 – June 2008 

Reference Number: 

SAF/CM/DWD/OpsRep200801/1 

Issue/Revision Index: 1.0 

Date: 22 August 2008

SAF on CLIMATE MONITORING 

Doc. No.: SAF/CM/DWD/OpsRep200801/1 

Issue: 1.0 

Date: 22 August 2008 

Document Signature Table 

Name Function Signature Date 

Author Petra Fuchs Configuration 

08/22/08 

Manager 

Editor 

Approval Martin Werscheck Project Manager 08/22/08 

Release 

Eumetsat 

Approval 

Distribution List 

Internal Distribution 

Name 

No. Copies 

DWD Archive 1 

CM-SAF Board 

External Distribution 

Company Name No. Copies 

EUMETSAT 

Public 

Document Change Record 

Issue/ Date DCN No. Changed Pages/Paragraphs 

Revision 

1.0 08/22/08 SAF/CM/DWD/OpsRep 

200801/1 

First Issue 

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Table of Contents 

1 INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................ 5 

1.1 Purpose of the document ......................................................................................................... 5 

1.2 Reporting period........................................................................................................................ 5 

1.3 Applicable Documents.............................................................................................................. 5 

1.4 Major achievements .................................................................................................................. 5 

2 STATUS OF DELIVERABLE PRODUCTS .................................................................... 6 

3 QUALITY OF PRODUCTS............................................................................................10 

4 SERVICE PROVISION STATUS...................................................................................10 

5 LIST AND STATUS OF THE GENERATED SOFTWARE PROBLEM/NON 

CONFORMANCE REPORTS...............................................................................................11 

6 MAIN ANOMALIES.......................................................................................................13 

7 INTERACTION WITH USERS, USER FEEDBACK ......................................................14 

7.1 Description of implemented UHD services........................................................................... 14 

7.2 User statistics .......................................................................................................................... 15 

7.3 Formal UHD requests.............................................................................................................. 19 

7.4 User Problem Report............................................................................................................... 20 

8 PROVISION OF CM-SAF PRODUCTS.........................................................................21 

9 TRAINING ACTIVITIES JAN 2008 – JUNE 2008 .........................................................23 

10 INTERACTIONS WITH EUMETSAT .........................................................................25 

11 SUMMARY OF CONFIGURATION ITEMS UPDATE ................................................25 

Annex 1: List of abbreviations ............................................................................................................... 30 

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List of Tables 

Table 1: Availability of AVHRR-based CM-SAF products ...................................................................... 6 

Table 2: Availability of SEVIRI-based CM-SAF products....................................................................... 7 

Table 3: Availability of merged AVHRR/SEVIRI CM-SAF radiation products ........................................ 8 

Table 4: Availability of GERB and SEVIRI-based CM-SAF products at the top of the atmosphere ...... 8 

Table 5: Quality management ratios in dependence on the product groups (Cld: Cloud products, Rad: 

radiation products, TOA: top of the atmosphere products, Wap: water vapour and temperature 

products) and the service indicator RT during the last 12 months................................................. 10 

Table 6: Status of implemented CM-SAF services according the Service Specification ..................... 10 

Table 7: Raised Software Problem Reports (SPR), Software Modification Reports (SMR), Non 

Conformance Reports (NCR) and System Change Reports (SCR) concerning the operational 

versions related to the version of change. ..................................................................................... 11 

Table 8: Statistical information about user access and user feedback during the reporting period..... 16 

Table 9: List of institutions of registered users of CM-SAF products ................................................... 17 

Table 10: Offline provided CM-SAF products relating to the area of application .................................. 23 

Table 11: Implemented changes concerning CM-SAF products until 30 April 2008............................. 26 

Table 12: Implemented changes for AVHRR-based cloud products since 01 May 2008 ..................... 29 

Table 13: Implemented changes for AVHRR-based surface radiation products since 01 May 2008... 29 

List of Figures 

Figure 1: Number of registered users since January 2008 ................................................................... 16 

Figure 2: Membership of CM-SAF users............................................................................................... 17 

Figure 3: UHD enquiries January – June 2008 ..................................................................................... 20 

Figure 4: Number of orders for cloud products (a), water vapour products (b), surface radiation 

products (c) and top of the atmosphere products (d), January – June 2008................................. 22 

Figure 5: Number of orders dependent on the temporal resolution, January – June 2008 .................. 23 

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1 Introduction 

1.1 Purpose of the document 

The purpose of this document is to provide a summary of operational activities within the 

reporting period and to outline the operations activities. Furthermore, a summary of User 

Help Desk (UHD) activities is given. 

1.2 Reporting period 

The reporting period for this 1 st Operations Report 2008 covers January 2008 until June 2008 

concerning CM-SAF services and products based on different data sources. 

1.3 Applicable Documents 

The predominant part of the CM-SAF documents are so called ‘living documents’ which 

means that they are more or less under permanent revision. The most current version of the 

documents can be found on the CM-SAF web pages: 

http://www.cmsaf.eu → 

Documentation 

List of applicable documents: 

Reference Title 

Code 

AD 1 CM-SAF User Manual Products SAF/CM/DWD/UMP/1 

AD 2 CM-SAF Service Specification SAF/CM/DWD/SeSpe/1 

AD 3 CDOP Science Plan SAF/CM/DWD/SP 

AD 4 CDOP Product Requirements Document SAF/CM/DWD/PRD/1 

AD 5 2 nd Operations Report 2007 SAF/CM/DWD/OpsRep200702/1 

AD 6 Annual Validation Report 2007 SAF/CM/DWD/VAL/OR3 

1.4 Major achievements 

Cloud and radiation products based on AVHRR data covering the baseline area (30°N-80°N, 

60°W-60°E) are available for the reporting period w ith only minor gaps (see Table 1). 

SEVIRI based cloud and radiation products covering the full MSG disk are available until end 

of April 2008 without any gaps (see Table 2). 

With the update of several software routines in May 2008 a new versioning approach has 

been introduced at CM-SAF. In the past the version number of all products has been 

changed with any update of the processing environment independent on the influence of the 

implemented change on the specific product. This has been changed to a product based 

versioning. I. e., only the version number of the affected product is changed, distinguishing 

between software update and/or change of input. Details on the current version number of all 

products are given in Section 11 and on the CM-SAF webpage. Following the change in the 

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versioning approach the CM-SAF web page has been changed accordingly to accommodate 

the information on the different product versions. 

The SAL products from May 2008 onwards derived from AVHRR data are based on an 

updated software and are released as version 310 (see Table 13). The products SIS, SNS 

and SRB are affected by the change in SAL and are therefore distributed with version 

number 301 starting from May 2008 

Humidity and temperature products derived from ATOVS onboard the NOAA satellites have 

been processed from 2004. The processing is ongoing. The products HTW, HLW and HSH 

are built using different combinations of NOAA satellites, depending on the available 

satellites in the time period and avoiding known sensor anomalies (e.g., it has been decided 

not to use NOAA 16 from March 2008 onwards due to bad performance of one of the AMSU- 

A channels). 

2 Status of deliverable products 

Operational CM-SAF cloud, surface radiation and water vapour products shall be available 

for distribution within two months after the acquisition of the corresponding satellite input 

data. The products at the top of the atmosphere shall be available after four months 

according the definition of PA (cf. also [AD 4]). 

Table 1 shows the availability and completeness of the CM-SAF products based on AVHRR 

data in terms of the reporting period. 

Table 1: Availability of AVHRR-based CM-SAF products 

Product 

Period of availability 

daily means 

weekly mean monthly mean monthly mean 

diurnal-cycle 

Completeness 

in % for 

reporting 

period 

CFC 2004/10/01-2008/06/30 n/a 2004/10-2008/06 n/a 100% none 

Gaps in reporting 

period 

COT 2004/10/01-2008/06/30 n/a 2004/10-2008/06 n/a 97.3% No daily mean product 

for 14-17 Feb 2008 

and 13 June 2008 

CPH 2004/10/01-2008/06/30 n/a 2004/10-2008/06 n/a 100% none 

CTH 2004/10/01-2008/06/30 n/a 2004/10-2008/06 n/a 100% none 

CTP 2004/10/01-2008/06/30 n/a 2004/10-2008/06 n/a 100% none 

CTT 2004/10/01-2008/06/30 n/a 2004/10-2008/06 n/a 100% none 

CTY 2004/10/01-2008/06/30 n/a 2004/10-2008/06 n/a 100% none 

CWP 2004/10/01-2008/06/30 n/a 2004/10-2008/06 n/a 97.3% No daily mean product 

for 14-17 Feb 2008 

and 13 June 2008 

SAL n/a 2004/10/04- 2004/10-2008/06 n/a 100% none 

2008/06/30 

SDL n/a n/a 2004/10-2008/06 n/a 100% none 

SIS 2004/10/01-2008/06/30 n/a 2004/10-2008/06 n/a 100% none 

SNL n/a n/a 2004/10-2008/06 n/a 100% none 

SNS 2004/10/01-2008/06/30 n/a 2004/10-2008/06 n/a 100% none 

SOL n/a n/a 2004/10-2008/06 n/a 100% none 

SRB n/a n/a 2004/10-2008/06 n/a 100% none 

The data gaps in the COT and CWP products can be explained by missing or insufficient 

input data. This product is based on NOAA 17 data only. The gap in February is due to a 

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disturbance in the reception of the NOAA 17 data. In June 2008, the local antenna to receive 

the NOAA data was moved to the new DWD headquarter. Some technical problems resulted 

in a loss of some data files. 

Table 2 shows the availability and completeness of the CM-SAF products based on SEVIRI 

data related to the reporting period. 

Table 2: Availability of SEVIRI-based CM-SAF products 

Product Period of availability 

Completeness 

in % in 


period 

reporting 

period 

daily means weekly mean monthly mean monthly mean 

diurnal-cycle 

CFC 2005/09/01-2008/04/30 n/a 2005/09-2008/04 2005/09-2008/04 66.5% no products from 01 May 

to 30 June 2008 

COT 2005/09/01-2008/04/30 n/a 2005/09-2008/04 2005/09-2008/04 66.5% no products from 01 May 


CPH 2007/05/01-2008/04/30 n/a 2007/05-2008/04 2007/05-2008/04 66.5% no products from 01 May 


CTH 2005/09/01-2008/04/30 n/a 2005/09-2008/04 2005/09-2008/04 66.5% no products from 01 May 


CTP 2005/09/01-2008/04/30 n/a 2005/09-2008/04 2005/09-2008/04 66.5% no products from 01 May 


CTT 2005/09/01-2008/04/30 n/a 2005/09-2008/04 2005/09-2008/04 66.5% no products from 01 May 


CTY 2005/09/01-2008/04/30 n/a 2005/09-2008/04 2005/09-2008/04 66.5% no products from 01 May 


CWP 2005/09/01-2008/04/30 n/a 2005/09-2008/04 2005/09-2008/04 66.5% no products from 01 May 


SAL n/a 2005/08/29- 

2008/06/30 

2005/09-2008/04 2005/09-2008/04 63.6% no products from 01 May 


SDL n/a n/a 2005/09-2008/04 2005/09-2008/04 66.7% no products from 01 May 


SIS 2005/09/01-2008/04/30 n/a 2005/09-2008/04 2005/09-2008/04 66.5% no products from 01 May 


SNL n/a n/a 2005/09-2008/04 2005/09-2008/04 66.7% no products from 01 May 


SNS 2005/09/01-2008/04/30 n/a 2005/09-2008/04 2005/09-2008/04 66.5% no products from 01 May 


SOL n/a n/a 2005/09-2008/04 2005/09-2008/04 66.7% no products from 01 May 


SRB n/a n/a 2005/09-2008/04 2005/09-2008/04 66.7% no products from 01 May 


The processing of all SEVIRI-based cloud and radiation products is delayed due to 

necessary updates in the processing environment (see section 6). 

Table 3 shows the availability and completeness of the CM-SAF radiation products based on 

merged AVHRR and SEVIRI data related to the reporting period. 

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Table 3: Availability of merged AVHRR/SEVIRI CM-SAF radiation products 

Product 


Completeness Gaps in reporting 

in % in reporting period 

period 


diurnal-cycle 

SAL n/a n/a 2005/09-2008/03 n/a 50% no products from 01 April 


SDL n/a n/a 2005/09-2008/03 n/a 50% no products from 01 April 


SIS n/a n/a 2005/09-2008/03 n/a 50% no products from 01 April 


SNL n/a n/a 2005/09-2008/03 n/a 50% no products from 01 April 


SNS n/a n/a 2005/09-2008/03 n/a 50% no products from 01 April 


SOL n/a n/a 2005/09-2008/03 n/a 50% no products from 01 April 


SRB n/a n/a 2005/09-2008/03 n/a 50% no products from 01 April 


Due to the delay in the processing of the SEVIRI-based products, the processing of the 

merged AVHRR/SEVIRI product is delayed as well (see section 6). 

Table 4 shows the availability and completeness of the CM-SAF products at the top of the 

atmosphere based on GERB data and GERB like data, respectively, related to the reporting 

period. 

Product 

Table 4: Availability of GERB and SEVIRI-based CM-SAF products at the top of the atmosphere 



diurnal-cycle 

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Completeness 

in % for period 


reporting 

period 

TET 2004/02/01-2007/08/31 n/a 2004/02-2007/08 2004/02-2007/08 0% no products for 

reporting period 

TIS 2004/02/01-2007/08/31 n/a 2004/02-2007/08 2004/02-2007/08 0% nol products for 


TRS 2004/02/01-2007/08/31 n/a 2004/02-2007/08 2004/02-2007/08 0% no products for 


No data could be processed from September 2007 onwards due to missing CERES input 

data (see section 6). 

Following the 2 nd Steering Group Meeting of the CM-SAF (13-14 March 2008, Offenbach, 

Germany) several changes have been introduced concerning the water vapour and 

temperature products. It has been decided to discontinue the production and dissemination 

of the SEVIRI-based and SEVIRI/ATOVS merged water vapour products. These products 

are no longer available to the user due to a lack of quality of the products for climate 

monitoring purposes. Therefore, these products are no longer included in the status tables. It 

is envisaged to introduce a new SEVIRI-based water vapour product after a re-evaluation of 

a newly developed Product Generator Element by the SAF-NWC. 

Furthermore, it was decided that the ATOVS-based HTW, HLW and HSH products 

generated for the baseline area (Version 200 and 210) shall no longer be distributed. These 

will be replaced by the new release of the global products (see section 6), available in August 

2008. The status on availability and completeness of these products will be added in the 2 nd 

Operations Report 2008.





Within the framework of quality management of DWD the following key figures were defined: 

Availability of products (Product Availability; PA): 

According to the user requirements the generation and archiving of CM-SAF products 

shall be completed within 60 days (2 months) after the end of the time interval for 

which the product is valid (target date) for all products except TIS, TRS and TET. For 

these products a target date of 120 days is valid. PA is weighted accordingly to reach 

the averaged value. 

PA = target date – date of availability; target date=60 (120) 

That means PA=60 (120) corresponds to a real time processing and is the maximum 

value. 

In case PA





Table 5: Quality management ratios in dependence on the product groups (Cld: Cloud 

products, Rad: radiation products, TOA: top of the atmosphere products, Wap: water 

vapour and temperature products) and the service indicator RT during the last 12 

months 

PA PA_Cld PA_Rad PA_TOA PA_Wap PC PC_Cld PC_Rad PC_TOA PC_Wap RT 

Target >=0 >=0 >=0 >=0 >=0 >=95% >=95% >=95% >=95% >=95% >=0 

Jul 2007 37 54 54 3 -** 100 100 100 100 -** 4 

Aug 2007 39 56 56 5 -** 100 100 100 100 -** 3 

Sep 2007 55 55 55 -** -** 100 100 100 -** -** 3 

Oct 2007 48 48 48 -** -** 100 100 100 -** -** 4 

Nov 2007 55 55 55 -** -** 100 100 100 -** -** 4 

Dec 2007 56 56 56 -** -** 100 100 100 -** -** 4 

Jan 2008 58 58 58 -** -** 100 100 100 -** -** 4 

Feb 2008 57 57 57 -** -** 99 98 100 -** -** 4 

Mar 2008 58 58 58 -** -** 100 100 100 -** -** 4 

Apr 2008 55 55 55 -** -** 98 100 95 -** -** 4 

May 2008 55* 55* 55* -** -** 49 49 48 -** -** 3 

Jun 2008 35* 35* 35* -** -** 49 49 48 -** -** 5 

* These numbers include only the status of the processing of AVHRR-based products 

** Not processed 

The low PC values for May 2008 and June 2008 are due to the delay in the processing of 

SEVIRI-based products (see section 6). The numbers will be updated in the next Operations 

Report. 

3 Quality of products 

The quality of operational CM-SAF products with respect to e.g. accuracy and the status of 

the products as well is described in the “Annual Validation Report 2007” (cp. [AD 6]) . This 

Report is available on the public CM-SAF webpage: 

www.cmsaf.eu → documentation → validation_reports. 

4 Service provision status 

The Service Specification document [AD 2] provides specifications and detailed information 

on the services committed towards the users by the Satellite Application Facility on Climate 

Monitoring (CM-SAF). The table below gives a summary of the status of implemented 

services. 

Table 6: Status of implemented CM-SAF services according the Service Specification 

requirement 

status 

SS-1 scope on schedule 

SS-2 area on schedule 

SS-3 Product characteristics and accuracy on schedule 

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requirement 

status 

SS-4 availability partly delayed 

SS-5 Operations Report on schedule 

SS-6 CM-SAF archive available 

SS-7 Processing of requests on schedule 

SS-8 User information provided 

SS-9 Media of product distribution procedure implemented 

SS-10 Product distribution (single entry point) procedure implemented 

SS-11 Product distribution (product catalogue) available 

SS-12 Product distribution (ordering procedure) procedure implemented 

SS-13 Product distribution (registration) procedure implemented 

SS-14 Product distribution (user information) procedure implemented 

SS-15 Training activities on schedule 

SS-16 Help Desk and User Problem Reporting procedure implemented 

procedure 

SS-17 Help Desk availability on schedule 

SS-18 Availability of CM-SAF web page on schedule 

SS-19 Provision of user service available 

SS-20 Mail box and FAQ list mail box available, provision of FAQ list 

planned 

SS-21 Functions of the central CM-SAF WWW site implemented 

SS-22 Access rights implemented 

SS-23 News and other topics available 

SS-24 Documentation Access access available 

SS-25 Meteorological Scientific Developments on schedule 

SS-26 User Service quality monitoring on schedule 

5 List and status of the generated Software Problem/Non Conformance 

Reports 

The following Software Problem Reports (SPR), Software Modification Reports (SMR), Non 

Conformance Reports (NCR) and System Change Reports (SCR) related to the operational 

CM-SAF versions were raised: 

Table 7: Raised Software Problem Reports (SPR), Software Modification Reports (SMR), Non 

Conformance Reports (NCR) and System Change Reports (SCR) concerning the 

operational versions related to the version of change. 

SPR name SPR date SMR name SMR date affected 

item 

Implemented 

in SW version 

SPR-0001-DWD_SIS 27.01.2004 SMR-0001-DWD_SIS 27.01.2004 SIS 1.3 

SPR-0002-DWD_SIS 28.01.2004 SMR-0002-DWD_SIS 29.01.2004 SIS 1.3 

SPR-0003- 

DWD_S2average 

SMR-0003- 

27.01.2004 DWD_S2average 29.01.2004 S2-average 1.3 

SPR-0004- 

DWD_S2average 

SMR-0004- 

28.01.2004 DWD_S2average 29.01.2004 S2-average 1.3 

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SPR-0006-DWD_S2 13.02.2004 SMR-0006-DWD_S2 29.06.2004 

Implemented 

in SW version 

DWD_S2average 13.02.2004 S2-average 1.3 

DM-NWP, 

SDL, SOL 1.3 

SPR-0007-DWD_SIS 13.02.2004 SMR-0007-DWD_SIS 16.02.2004 SIS 1.3 


item 

SPR-0005- 

SMR-0005- 

DWD_S2average 13.02.2004 

SPR-0008-DWD_SOL 13.02.2004 SMR-0008-DWD_SOL 16.02.2004 SOL 1.3 

SPR-0010- 

SMR-0010- 

PPSgridaver 

DWD_S1S2Lib 03.03.2004 DWD_S1S2Lib 02.07.2004 age 1.3 

SPR-0011-DWD_SAL 18.03.2004 SMR-0011-DWD_SAL 19.03.2004 SAL 1.3 

SPR-0013-DWD_SIS 01.06.2004 SMR-0013-DWD_SIS 01.06.2004 SIS 1.3 

SMR-0014- 

SPR-0014-DWD_S2qc 03.03.2004 DWD_S2qc 03.03.2004 1.3 

SPR-0015-DWD_SIS 28.04.2004 SMR-0015-DWD_SIS 28.04.2004 S2-average 1.3 

SPR-0015-DWD_SIS 28.04.2004 SMR-0015-DWD_SIS 28.04.2004 SIS 1.3 

SPR-0016- 

DWD_MSG-COTCWP 

SMR-0016- 

01.07.2004 DWD_MSG-COTCWP 

MSG- 

17.03.2005 COT/CWP 1.4 

SPR-0017- 

DWD_TET_TRS 

SMR-0017- 

13.07.2004 DWD_TET_TRS 30.08.2004 TET, TRS 1.3 

SPR-0018-DWD_TPW 

SMR-0018- 

27.07.2004 DWD_TPW 27.07.2004 DM-MSG 2.0 

SPR-0019-DWD_LPW 27.07.2004 SMR-0018-DWD_LPW 27.07.2004 DM-MSG 2.0 

SPR-0020-DWD_SRB 26.08.2004 SMR-0020-DWD_SRB 26.08.2004 SRB 1.3 

SPR-0021-DWD_DM- 

NWP_pps 

SMR-0021-DWD_DM- 

30.08.2004 NWP_pps 

DM- 

30.08.2004 NWP_pps 1.3 

SPR-0022- 

DWD_stx_field 

SMR-0022- 

30.08.2004 DWD_stx_field 

PPSgridaver 

30.08.2004 age 1.3 

SPR-0023-DWD_AM 15.10.2004 SMR-0023-DWD_AM 15.10.2004 Archiver 1.3 

SPR-0024-DWD_SIS 01.10.2004 SMR-0024-DWD_SIS 01.10.2004 S2-average 1.3 

SPR-0025-DWD_OPS 31.10.2004 SMR-0025-DWD_OPS 

DM- 

31.10.2004 NWP_pps 1.3 

SPR-0026-DWD_HCP- 

PGE 

SMR-0026- 

14.12.2004 DWD_HCP-PGE 14.12.2004 HCP-PGE 2.0 


PGE 

SMR-0027- 


SPR-0028-DWD_S2 01.11.2004 SMR-0028-DWD_S2 02.11.2004 n/a 1.3 

SPR-0029-DWD_DM- 

ATOVS 

SMR-0029-DWD_DM- 

01.02.2005 ATOVS 01.02.2005 DM-ATOVS 2.0 


PGE 

SMR-0030- 

01.02.2005 DWD_HCP-PGE 01.02.2005 HCP-PGE 2.0 


PGE 

SMR-0031- 



PGE 

SMR-0032- 


SPR-0033-DWD_S1 02.02.2005 SMR-0033-DWD_S1 10.08.2005 PPS-NWC 1.5 

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item 

Implemented 

in SW version 

SPR-0034-DWD_OPS 24.02.2005 SMR-0034-DWD_OPS 03.04.2005 3rdPartySW 1.4 

SPR-0035- 

DWD_S1S2Lib 

SMR-0035-DWD- 

02.03.2005 S1S2Lib 

PPSgridaver 

06.04.2005 age 1.4 


PGE 

SMR-0036- 


SPR-0037-DWD_OPS 04.04.2005 SMR-0037-DWD_OPS 04.04.2005 PPS-NWC 1.4 

SPR-0038-DWD_S2 13.06.2005 SMR-0038-DWD_S2 13.06.2005 SOL, SDL 1.5 

SPR-0039-DWD_SAL 15.06.2005 SMR-0039-DWD_SAL 15.06.2005 SAL 2.0 

SPR-0040- 

SMR-0040-DWD- 

PPSgridaver 

DWD_S1S2Lib 29.07.2005 S1S2Lib 02.08.2005 age 1.5 

SPR-0041-DWD_SAL 15.06.2005 SMR-0041-DWD_SAL 15.01.2006 SAL 1.6 and 2.1 

SPR-0042-DWD_SIS 01.08.2005 SMR-0042-DWD_SIS 10.01.2006 SIS 1.6 and 2.1 

SPR-0044- 

SMR-0044- 

DWD_SIS_iatm 27.07.2006 DWD_SIS_iatm 31.07.2006 SIS 1.6 and 2.1 

SPR-0046-DWD_s2qc 28.07.2006 SMR-0046-DWD_s2qc 31.07.2006 SIS 2.1 

SPR-0047- 

DWD_prep4rad 

SMR-0047- 

31.07.2006 DWD_prep4rad 31.07.2006 DAM.S2 1.6 

SPR-0048- 

DWD_emissivity 

SMR-0048- 

31.07.2006 DWD_emissivity 

Auxiliary 

31.07.2006 data 1.6 

SPR-0049- 

DWD_SDL_SOL 

SMR-0049- 

23.08.2006 DWD_SDL_SOL 21.04.2007 S2-average 3.0 

SPR-0050-DWD_AM 25.08.2006 SMR-0050-DWD_AM 21.10.2007 AM 3.0 

MSG- 

NCR-0001-DWD_CPH 21.08.2006 SCR-0001-DWD_CPH 05.01.2007 COT/CWP 3.0 

SPR-0052-DWD_SAL 24.10.2007 SMR-0052-DWD_SAL 26.10.2007 SAL SAL 310 

6 Main anomalies 

As reported in [AD 5] the TIS, TRS and TET products are only available until August 2007 

due to “late availability” of CERES data. Unfortunately, the data is still not available. Thus, 

the products could not be processed. A service message has been issued to inform the user. 

Additionally, a Non Conformance Report has to be raised. 

The processing of all SEVIRI-based cloud and radiation products is delayed due to 

necessary updates in the processing environment. Products are available until end of April 

2008. The radiation products being merged from AVHRR and SEVIRI products are only 

available until April 2008 due to the stop in the processing of the SEVIRI-based products. 

The change in the processing environment is required due to necessary adaptations in 

connection with the change of the radiance definition for SEVIRI channels by Eumetsat. 

Details on the changes can be found in Introduction of MSG level 1.5 Effective Radiance 

Definition. With this update also some other software modules will be changed. It is planned 

that the updated processing environment becomes operational again in September 2008. 

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The products from May 2008 onwards will be reprocessed and made available to the user as 

soon as possible thereafter. However, it is already known that there will be some gaps in the 

SEVIRI-based CM-SAF products as no input data are available due to a safe mode transition 

on Meteosat-9 on 13 May 2008. Data had been distributed in a pre-operational mode from 16 

May 2008 to 19 May 2008, with Meteosat 9 becoming operational again on 19 May 2008. 

CM-SAF plans to use the data from the pre-operational mode as well to keep the data gap 

as small as possible. 

The distribution of the ATOVS based humidity products has been delayed to August 2008 in 

order to implement additional improvements in the processing environment following further 

validation of the products. Not only the data gap from September 2006 onwards as reported 

in the 2 nd Operations Report 2007 [AD 5] has been filled but also data from January 2004 

onwards will be available by the end of August 2008. 

7 Interaction with users, user feedback 

7.1 Description of implemented UHD services 

The User Help Desk support is based on an open service area of the specific CM-SAF web 

site, which acts as the single entry point for the users interface. The User Help Desk provides 

information and services to the CM-SAF user community and supports the gathering of the 

feedback from users needed to improve the CM-SAF services. The following services are 

provided by the Help Desk: 

• E-Mailbox and FAQ list 

o 

The e-mail box shall help to solve problems and collect questions of the users 

with CM-SAF products. Besides this it is expected that users will place 

requirements and proposals in order to improve the service and the products 

here. In the course of the time of regular processing of CM-SAF it is anticipated to 

collect questions in FAQ lists which shall be updated regularly (at present not yet 

available). The UHD is also accessible via phone or fax. 

• Feedback/User Problem Report 

o 

The user has the possibility to give feedback either via the contact e-mail box or 

by filling in the form “User Problem Report” (UPR). The UPR form and the contact 

e-mail box are available on the CM-SAF web page. 

• Service messages 

o 

The CM-SAF web page “Service messages” provides current information 

concerning the provision of CM-SAF products to the users. This regards 

announcements to new products or services as well as messages about technical 

problems or the quality of products. 

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• Change log 

o 

The CM-SAF web page “change log” informs the user on the versioning approach 

of the CM-SAF products. Following the change in the versioning approach from 

May 2008 onwards, this part of the webpage has been adapted accordingly. 

• Add on products and tools 

o 

Additional tools for using CM-SAF products are provided on the page “Add on 

products and tools” to make the access more comfortable. 

• Access to CM-SAF technical documentation 

o This is a section for viewing or downloading CM-SAF documentation relevant for 

the end users, e.g., User Manual Products, Science Plan, Prototype Reports, and 

Data Output Formats. 

• CM-SAF Scientific Developments 

o 

Information is provided on the scientific developments and plans as well as 

reports of product improvements and validation results. 

The Help Desk availability is based on a working-hours-five-days-a-week service. Once the 

communication has been received, the User Help Desk team acts as a broker and answers 

user inquiries itself or forwards the inquiries to those having the according expertise within 

the CM-SAF team. Whereas an immediate electronic response will be generated to notify the 

user of the inquiry receipt, the full reply shall be provided within 5 working days. The inquiry 

and the replies are collected in a dedicated database in order to compile a list of frequently 

asked question (FAQ; not yet implemented). 

7.2 User statistics 

The Help Desk User Support is based on a dedicated CM-SAF web site, which will act as the 

single entry point for the web users interface (WUI). When ordering products the users will 

gain access by means of a password. The Help Desk intends to provide information and 

services to CM-SAF users, as well as to support the gathering of the feedback from users 

needed to improve the CM-SAF services. Therefore, a template for a user's problem report 

(UPR) is available from the web site in order for a user to depict the problems he/she has 

with the CM-SAF products, CM-SAF operation or suggestions for improvements of the CM- 

SAF system. 

The following table shows some statistics to the user access and the user feedback during 

the reporting period. The number of registered users includes only users not being member 

of the CM-SAF project. 

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Table 8: Statistical information about user access and user feedback during the reporting 

period 

number 

number of registered users 137 

Number of new users (1st and 2nd quarter 2008) 22 

number of sessions 64 

number of orders and provision of CMSAF products 80 

medium of provision of products FTP 62 

Email 9 

CD 0 

UHD contacts 18 

response to enquiries 

Within 1 working day 

Figure 1 illustrates the development of CM-SAF users since January 2008. Only non-CM- 

SAF members registered as a user are included in the figure. The registration of users via 

the CM-SAF Web User Interface has been possible since September 2004. 

Trend of user registration since January 2008 

140 

135 

Number of registered users 

130 

125 

120 

115 

110 

Jan 08 Feb 08 Mar08 Apr 08 May08 Jun 08 

Figure 1: Number of registered users since January 2008 

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Figure 2 shows the number of users concerning the application area. 

Universities 

41 

Members of other 

SAFs 

4 

National 

Meteorological 

Services 

59 

Companies 

4 

Others 

12 

Research Centres 

17 

Figure 2: Membership of CM-SAF users 

Table 9: List of institutions of registered users of CM-SAF products 

Name of INSTITUTION Number of users COUNTRY 

ZAMG 3 Austria 

Wegener Centre Graz 2 Austria 

ANH 1 Azerbaijan 

RMI 2 Belgium 

MS 1 Bosnia-Herzegovina 

NIMH 2 Bulgaria 

FADQ 1 Canada 

Meteorological and Hydrological 

Service 

3 Croatia 

IRB (Institut Ruñer Bošković) 1 Croatia 

MS 1 Cyprus 

CHMI 1 Czech Republic 

Uni - Kopenhagen 1 Denmark 

Danish Meteorological Instiute 1 Denmark 

Finish Environmental Institute 1 Finland 

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Finnish Meteorological Institute 2 Finland 

University of Helsinki 1 Finland 

Meteo-France 3 France 

LMD 1 France 

Umweltbundesamt 1 Germany 

Amt für Geoinformationswesen 1 Germany 

BTU Cottbus 1 Germany 

Deutscher Wetterdienst 9 Germany 

DLR 3 Germany 

IFM-GEOMAR 1 Germany 

Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, 

Hamburg 

1 Germany 

THR 1 Germany 

TU - Dresden 1 Germany 

Uni - FU Berlin 3 Germany 

University of Hanover 21 Germany 

Uni - Bonn 1 Germany 

Uni - Frankfurt 1 Germany 

EUMETSAT 4 Germany 

Jörg Fuchs Systemberatung 1 Germany 

EADS 1 Germany 

BAFG 1 Germany 

HNMS 1 Greece 

University of Ioannina 1 Greece 

Hungarian Meteorological Service 2 Hungary 

OMSZ 1 Hungary 

MET EIRIANN 1 Irland 

Italian Met. Service 4 Italy 

University of Firenze 1 Italy 

University of Modena and Reggio 

E. 

1 Italy 

University of Rome 2 1 Italy 

Uni - Reading 1 Japan 

Jordan Meteorological Department 4 Jordan 

LHMT 1 Lituania 

Hydrometeorological Service 3 Macedonia 

NMS 3 Macedonia 

CRASTE-LF 1 Marocco 

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Hydrometeorological Service 1 Moldavia 

KNMI 3 Netherlands 

TU - Delft 1 Netherlands 

Wageningen University 1 Netherlands 

IMGW 3 Poland 

Space Research Centre 1 Poland 

Uni - Warsaw 1 Poland 

National Meteorological 

Administration 

3 Romania 

MGO 2 Russia 

Meteomedia AG 1 Switzerland 

Meteotest 1 Switzerland 

WMO 1 Switzerland 

ETHZ 1 Switzerland 

SHMU 1 Slovakia 

INM 1 Spain 

Instituto Canario de Ciencias 

Marinas 

1 Spain 

UCLM 1 Spain 

SMHI 1 Sweden 

Turkish Met. Service 1 Turkey 

Met. Office 1 UK 

King’s College London 1 UK 

NERC ESSC 1 UK 

University Edinburgh 1 UK 

University Reading 2 UK 

UHMI 1 Ukraine 

University of Wisconsin 1 USA 

NOAA 1 USA 

Uni - Maryland 3 USA 

SSEC 1 USA 

Science Systems and Applications, 

Inc. 

1 USA 

7.3 Formal UHD requests 

During the reporting period 18 inquiries to the CM-SAF User Help Desk were registered. 13 

questions were sent by e-mail and 5 telephone calls were registered. The user received a 

replay within 1 working day in the majority of cases. 

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The requests covered different technical aspects of the registration, ordering and data 

provision procedure as well as scientific issues of the products. 

The temporal distribution of CM-SAF User Help Desk inquiries in the first half of 2008 is 

shown in Figure 3: 

9 

Number of enquiries 

8 

7 

6 

5 

4 

3 

2 

1 

0 

Jan08 Feb08 Mar08 Apr08 May08 Jun08 

Figure 3: UHD enquiries January – June 2008 

7.4 User Problem Report 

User Problem Reports were not raised during the reporting period. 

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8 Provision of CM-SAF products 

CM-SAF products are provided via Web User Interface (WUI). The following figures 

demonstrate, which CM-SAF products were ordered by the users during the reporting period 

January to June 2008 divided by the subsystems. 

a) Number of ordered cloud products 

12 

Number of orders 

10 

8 

6 

4 

2 

0 

CFC COT CPH CTH CTT CTY CWP 

Products 

b) Number of ordered water vapour products 

5 


4 

3 

2 

1 

0 

HLW HSH HTW 

Products 

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c) Number of ordered surface radiation products 


35 

30 

25 

20 

15 

10 

5 

0 

SAL SDL SIS SNL SNS SOL SRB 

Products 

d) Number of ordered top of the atmosphere products 


7 

6 

5 

4 

3 

2 

1 

0 

TET TIS TRS 

Products 

Figure 4: Number of orders for cloud products (a), water vapour products (b), surface radiation 

products (c) and top of the atmosphere products (d), January – June 2008 

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Concerning the temporal resolution monthly mean products were ordered in the majority of 

cases. This is shown by Figure 5. 

90 

80 

number of orders 

70 

60 

50 

40 

30 

20 

10 

0 

daily mean 

monthly mean 

diurnal cycle 

monthly mean 

w eekly mean 

temporal resolution 

Figure 5: Number of orders dependent on the temporal resolution, January – June 2008 

In addition to formal orders of products via the WUI the colleagues of the CM-SAF also 

received requests for CM-SAF products offline. This concerns CM-SAF products for different 

time periods or special formats. The following table gives a review of the offline provided 

products. 

Table 10: Offline provided CM-SAF products relating to the area of application 

Product Time period Customer Application area 

SIS 

SAL 

SDL 

SNS 

SIS 

CFC 

Monthly mean since 

02/2006 following 

MSG based, 

continuous provision 

Monthly mean in special 

format, continuously, 

MSG based 

Daily and monthly mean 

products based on MSG, 

continuously 

DWD (department of 

Research and 

Development) 

DWD (Regional Bureau 

of Climatological 

Expertise) 

DWD 

Validation of the models of 

numerical weather 

prediction 

Maps of radiation for 

enterprises of solar energy 

Operational climate 

monitoring 

9 Training activities Jan 2008 – June 2008 

Understanding the need and the request of users for more background information and 

training opportunities the SAF on Climate Monitoring (CM-SAF) initiated the work package 

“User Training” with the beginning of the Continuous Operations and Development Phase 

(CDOP). The goals of the CM-SAF training activities are an improved visibility of CM-SAF 

and to inform (potential) users and atmospheric scientists (esp. climatologists) about CM- 

SAF products and activities as well as getting feedback from the users. 

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The goals of the CM-SAF training activities are 

• To enhance the use of satellite data in climate monitoring and climate analysis 

• To train an appropriate handling of satellite data and usage of information derived 

from satellite data 

• To intensify a widespread / common use and knowledge of the CM-SAF products 

• To enhance and establish international networks on a working level 

• To establish a lively dialogue with users (and using it as a source of ideas for 

products enhancements) 

The main intended audience of the training activities are: 

• Climate Scientists (in universities and other research institutes) 

• Climatologists in National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS) 

• Forecasters 

• Students 

where the main focus will be on Climate Scientists and Climatologists. 

From 1 January 2008 until 30 June 2008 the following training activities took place: 

- Participation at EUMETSATs Moodle-Workshop in January 2008. It is planned to 

use Moodle to support the 2008 GCOS Workshop on “The use of Satellite Data for 

Climate Applications” which will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia, from November 3 rd 

2008 until November 7 th 2008. 

- As mentioned in the 2 nd Operations Report 2007 (section 9) a showcase on the "The 

Use of CM-SAF Data for Climate Applications" was initiated. Six Meteorological 

Services of the WMO Region VI applied for the showcase. The committee, which 

consisted of representatives from CM-SAF, EUMETSAT and WMO selected Armenia 

to receive the funds for the showcase. 

A member of the CM-SAF team visited Armstatehydromet in June 2008. During his 

visit a working plan was elaborated. The work on the showcase project, entitled as 

“The application of CM-SAF data for monitoring of climate system over Armenia”, is 

currently going on. First results are expected by the end of 2008. 

- As a contribution to EUMeTRAIN CM-SAF is currently developing a CAL-Module on 

“Climate Monitoring with Satellite Data”. A first idea on the contents of this Module 

was presented at the EUMeTRAIN Porject-Team-Meeting Meeting in March 2008 in 

Langen. It is planned to present the CAL at the next EUMeTRAIN Project team- 

Meeting in Lisbon in October 2008. 

- As in 2007, a 1 day seminar on CM-SAF activities and products was held at the 

Meteorological Institute of Hannover University in May 2008. 

- Preparations for the 2008 GCOS Workshop on “The use of Satellite Data for 

Climate Applications” which will take place from November 3 rd until November 7 th in 

Dubrovnik, Croatia are going on. 

Outlook July 2008 – December 2008: 

- Participation at the EumetCAL Workshop in Toulouse, August 25 th to August 28 th . 

- Poster Presentation on CM-SAF training activities at the 2008 EUMETSAT 

Conference in Darmstadt, September 2008. 

- Two-day Workshop on CM-SAF products at DWD in September 2008. 

- Presentation of the CAL-Module for EUMeTRAIN in October 2008. 

- GCOS Workshop “The use of Satellite Data for Climate Applications”, November 3 rd 

to November 7 th 2008. 

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10 Interactions with EUMETSAT 

CMSAF members have continuous contact with EUMETSAT. Beside the direct email 

contacts between the CMSAF and EUMETSAT colleagues, representatives of CMSAF 

visited the following events: 

• 10 Jan 2008: SAF Network Workshop including MTG planning and interaction with 

Canada 

• 14-15 Jan 2008: SAF Coordination workshop at EUMETSAT, Darmstadt 

• 26 Feb 2008: GSCICS collaboration meeting at DWD, Offenbach 

• 28-29 Feb. 2008: 3 rd CM-SAF Operations Review at DWD, Offenbach 

• 14 March 2008: Program Committee for EUMETSAT conference / CM-SAF Member 

is Convener for Climate session 

• 15-16 April 2008: R/SSC-CM Planning Meeting with participation from WMO, CMA, 

JMA, NOAA, GCOS, ESA. Five pilot activities were planned for the global network of 

R/SSC-CM. CM-SAF is participating in 4 of them. 

• 29-30 May 2008: PMET (Post-EPS Mission Expert Team)-6 Meeting; presenting 

recommendations from the ITWG-ATOVS working group on climate to the 

EUMETSAT PMET team. 

• 18-19 June 2008: African contribution to the activities related to the R/SSC-CM 

Initiative Workshop - Workshop with wide participation from Africa on the topic of 

climate monitoring –representing CM-SAF and showing involvement of CM-SAF in 

R/SSC-CM and how African countries may benefit from it. 

11 Summary of configuration items update 

The implementation of changes concerning the operational CM-SAF version products is 

shown in the next tables. From the start of CM-SAF until 30 April 2008, the version number 

of all products has been changed with any update of the processing environment (whether 

the product was affected or not). With effect of 1 May 2008 the versioning approach has 

been revised to a product based versioning. I. e., only the version number of the affected 

product is changed. Two cases are distinguished and cause a modification of the version 

number: 

1. Update of the software used in the processing (change in 2 nd digit) 

2. The input for the processing of the product has changed (change in 3 rd digit) 

Therefore, separate tables for the different product groups (clouds, surface radiation, water 

vapour, radiation at the top of the atmosphere) are given for all changes in the processing 

after May 2008. 

Table 11 gives a summary of all changes in the products until 30 April 2008. 

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Table 11: Implemented changes concerning CM-SAF products until 30 April 2008 

Version Operational centre Sources valid from implemented changes 

1.0 RMIB 

(TOA products) 



Data source: 

METEOSAT- 

8/GERB and 

CERES data 

Data source: 

METEOSAT- 

8/GERB and 

CERES data 

01.12.2004 to 

31.03.2006 



N/a 

• Gerb data from released 

version 

• Replacement of missing 

Gerb pixels by Gerb-like 

ones instead of image 

per 

• image 

• Change of geolocation 

(correction of bugs, now 

exactly 45km x 45km) 

• New fields giving 

percentage of Gerb / 

Gerb-like / Ceres data 

needed to 

• compute each pixel 

value in the final 

products 



1.3 DWD 

(Cloud products 

and Surface 

radiation products) 



and Surface 


Data source: 

METEOSAT- 

8/GERB and 

CERES data 

Data source: 

NOAA/AVHRR 

Based on SAF- 

NWC software 

PPS 1.0 

Data source: 

NOAA/AVHRR 


NWC software 


01.01.2006 to 

30.04.2007 





• introduction of a 

correction to the thermal 

flues from GERB and 

GERB-like products 

N/a 

- Change of averaging 

routine: 

Limits for cloud 

products have been 

changed: 

- Daily mean: at least 

6 slots per tile 

(except for 

COT/CWP products) 

- Monthly mean: at 

least 20 daily mean 

- Improvement in allocation 

of NWP data files (update of 

aix_job_stx_field and 

aix_job_stx_field_mm) 

- COT/CWP version 1.0was 

implemented 

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- Avhcal.txt version 12 was 

implemented (update of 

calibration coefficients for 

NOAA-17) 

- Update of pps_runutils.py 

according to SMR-0155-INM 

(NWC-SAF) 



and Surface 




and Surface 


Data source: 

NOAA/AVHRR 


NWC software 


Data source: 

NOAA/AVHRR 


NWC software 





30.08.2007 

- change from 32 x 32 pixel 

per tile to 45 x 45 pixel per 

tile in the clouds processing 

to fix the error of artefacts in 

the end products (straight 

lines across sub-areas) 

- elimination of box gradients 

near the coastlines in SOL 

and SDL images 

- Hardware change from IBM 

Power3 to IBM Power5 

- change from SAF-NWC 

Software PPS 1.0 to 

SAF-NWC software PPS 

1.1 

- change to AAPP 5.3 

- Update of SAL 

processing (SAL now 

available both over land 

and ocean, Data over 

ocean are based on 

model. SAL processing 

uses Corine/USGS land 

use map as background 

data. 

- Change of COT/CWP 

software version V2.2.2 

(Enhanced look-up 

tables w. r. t. optical 

properties of especially 

ice clouds; Inclusion of 

surface albedo maps 

based on MODIS whitesky 

albedo maps; 

optional recalibration of 

AVHRR radiances of 

channels 1-3 relative to 

corresponding MODIS 

radiances (switched on)) 

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2.0 DWD 

(Cloud products, 

Surface radiation 

products and 

Humidity products) 

Data source: 

MSG/SEVIRI 

based on SAF- 

NWC software 

MSG 1.1 

and 

NOAA/ATOVS 


31.01.2006 

N/a 

2.1 DWD 



products and 


Data source: 

MSG/SEVIRI 


NWC software 


and 

NOAA/ATOVS 


09.05.2007 

Change of SAF-NWC 

software from MSG 1.1 to 


see also service message 8 

3.0 

DWD 



products and 


DWD 


and Surface 


Data source: 

MSG/SEVIRI 


NWC software 


and 

NOAA/ATOVS 

NOAA/AVHRR 


NWC software 


Data source: 

NOAA/AVHRR 


NWC software 

PPS 1.1 NWP 

remapping 

corrected (see 

service 

message 20) 

01.05.2007 till 

today 


today 

- Area extension of 

SEVIRI processing to full 

disk 


software version V2.2.2 

- New ATOVS processing 

based on IAPP 

- AVHRR/SEVIRI merging 

for surface radiation 

products. 

- NWP remapping 

corrected (see service 

message 20) 

- Update of SAL 

processing (inclusion of 

OSI-SAF sea ice mask 

for retrieval of snow and 

sea ice albedo over 

ocean) 


software version for 

AVHRR (V2.2.2 1 ) 

RMIB 


METEOSAT- 

9/GERB1 and 

CERES data 


today 

Products based on GERB1 

data 

Table 12 and Table 13 show the status of changes for AVHRR-based cloud and surface 

radiation products since 01 May 2008. 

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Table 12: Implemented changes for AVHRR-based cloud products since 01 May 2008 

Line Version 

Operating 

Centre 

1 300 DWD NOAA/ 

AVHRR 

Source Product Area Valid Implement changes 

All cloud 

products 

baseline 01 Sep 2007 

till today 

See Table 11 

Table 13: Implemented changes for AVHRR-based surface radiation products since 01 May 

2008 

Line Version Operating 

Centre 

Source Product Area Valid Implement changes 


AVHRR 


AVHRR 


AVHRR 


AVHRR 


AVHRR 


AVHRR 

SDL, 

SOL, 

SNL 

SAL, 

SIS, 

SNS, 

SRB 

baseline 01 Sep 2007 

till today 

baseline 

01 Sep 

2007- 30 

April 2008 

SAL baseline 01 May 

2008 till 

today 

SIS baseline 01 May 


today 

SNS baseline 01 May 


today 

SRB baseline 01 May 


today 

See Table 11 

See Table 11 

Update of software (SMAC 

correction for snow pixels 

removed, as the Manalo- 

Smith algorithm already 

accounts for atmospheric 

effects; water albedo 

normalized to 60° sun zenith 

angle (SZA), SZA 

processing limit in product 

should now remove all nonvalid 

pixels, whether land, 

sea or sea ice; some minor 

bug fixes having no or 

negligible effect on the final 

product. 

Changed input, see line 3 

Changed input, see lines 3 

and 4 

Changed input, see line 5 

As mentioned in Section 5 a new release of ATOVS based humidity and temperature 

products will become available by the end of August 2008. In the same time frame the 

processing of all SEVIRI-based products will be set up again. Changes concerning these 

products will be added to the tables in the 2 nd Operations Report 2008. 

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Annex 1: List of abbreviations 

Abbreviation 

A.D. 

AM 

AMSU 

ANH 

ATOVS 

AVHRR 

BFG 

BTU 

CD 

CDOP 

CERES 

CFC 

CHMI 

CM 

CMA 

CM-SAF 

COT 

CPH 

CRASTE-LF 

CTH 

CTP 

CTT 

CTY 

CWP 

DLR 

DM 

DOP 

DWD 

EADS 

e.g. 

EPS 

ETHZ 

EUMETSAT 

FADQ 

FAQ 

FTP 

FU 

GERB 

GSICS 

HCP 

HLW 

HNMS 

H-SAF 

HSH 

HTW 

Meaning 

Applicable Dokuments 

Archive Manager 

Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit 

Azerbaijan National Hydrometeorological 

Advanced TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder 

Advanced Very High Resolution Receiver 

Federal Institute of Hydrology (Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde / BfG, Koblenz) 

Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus 

Compact Disk 

Continuous Development and Operations Phase 

Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System 

Fractional Cloud Cover 

Czech Hydrometeorological Institute 

Climate Monitoring 

Chinese Meteorological Agency 

Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring 

Cloud Optical Thickness 

Cloud (Thermodynamic) Phase 

Le Centre Régional Africain des Sciences et Technologies de l'Espace en 

Langue Français 

Cloud Top Height 

Cloud top pressure 

Cloud Top Temperature 

Cloud Type 

Cloud (Liquid) Water Path 

(German Aerospace Centre) 

Data Manager 

Detailed Operations Proposal 

Deutscher Wetterdienst (German MetService) 

European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company 

for example 

European Polar System 

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich 

European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites 

La Financière agricole du Québec 

Frequently Asked Questions 

File Transfer Protocol 

Freie Universität 

Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget 

Global Space-based Inter-Calibration System 

Humidity Composite Product 

Layered water vapour in 5 layers 

Hellenic National Meteorological Service 

Satellite Application Facility on support to operational Hydrology and water 

management 

Specific humidity and temperature at 6 pressure levels 

Vertical integrated water vapour information 

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Abbreviation 

IFM-Geomar 

i.e. 

INGW 

INM 

IRB 

ITWG 

JMA 

KNMI 

LHMB 

LMD 

LPW 

Met Eiriann 

METEOSAT 

MGO 

MS 

MSG 

MTG 

n/a 

NCR 

NERC ESSC 

NIMH 

NMS 

NOAA 

NWCSAF 

OMSZ 

OpsRep 

OR 

PA 

PC 

PGE 

PMET 

PPS 

PRD 

RMIB 

R/SSC 

RT 

SAF 

SAL 

SCR 

SDL 

SeSpe 

SEVIRI 

SHMI 

SIS 

SMHI 

SMR 

SNL 

Meaning 

The Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Kiel 

that is 

Institute of Meteorology and Water Management 

(National Institute for Meteorology; Spanish MetService) 

Institut Ruder Boskovic 

International TOVS Working Group 

Japan Meteorological Agency 

Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute 

Lithuanian Board for Hydrometeorology 

Laboratoire Météorologie Dynamique 

Layered Precepitable Water 

Meteorological Service Ireland 

Meteorological Satellite 

Main Geophysical Observatory 

Meteorological Service 

Meteorological Satellite Second Generation 

MeteoSat third generation 

Not applicable 

Non Conformance Report 

Natural Environment Research Council 

Environmental Systems Science Centre 

The National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (of Romania) 

National Meteorological Service 

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration 

SAF in Support to Nowcasting and Very Short Range Forecasting 

Meteorological Service of Hungary 

Operations Report 

Operation Reviews 

Product Availability 

Product Completeness 

Product Generating Element 

Post-EPS Mission Expert Team 

Polar Platform System 

Product Requirement Document 

Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium 

Regional Specialized Satellite Centre 

Response Time 

Satellite Application Facility 

Surface Albedo 

System Change Reports 

Surface Downward Long-Wave Radiation 

Service Specification 

Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager 

Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute 

Solar Incoming Surface Radiation 

Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute 

Software Modification Report 

Surface Net Long-Wave Radiation 

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Abbreviation 

SNS 

SOL 

SP 

SPR 

SRB 

SSEC 

TET 

TIS 

TOA 

TRS 

TU 

UCLM 

UHD 

UHMI 

UK Met Office 

UMP 

UPR 

UR 

URD 

V3 

ValRep 

WMO 

WUI 

WWW 

ZAMG 

Meaning 

Surface Net Short-Wave Radiation 

Surface Outgoing Long-Wave radiation 

Sience Plan 

Software Problem Reports 

Surface Radiation Budget 

Space Science and Engineering Center 

Emitted Thermal Radioactive Flux at the Top of the Atmosphere 

Incoming Solar Radioactive Flux at the Top of the Atmosphere 

Top of the Atmosphere 

Reflected Solar Radioactive Flux at the Top of the Atmosphere 

Technische Universität 

Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha 

User Help Desk 

Ukraine Research Hydrometeorological Institute 

United Kingdom Meteorological Office 

User Manual Products 

User Problem Report 

User Requirement 

User Requirement Document 

Versioning 

Validation Report 

World Meteorological Organization 

Web User Interface 

World Wide Web / World Weather Watch (WMO) 

Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (Austrian MetService) 

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