NWCSAF 2014 Users’ Survey NWC SAF 2015 Users Workshop 24 - 26 February 2015 Ana Sánchez Piqué [email protected]

NWCSAF 2014 Users’ Survey

NWC SAF 2015 Users Workshop

24 - 26 February 2015 Ana Sánchez Piqué

[email protected]

NWCSAF 2015 Users Workshop24 - 26 February 2015

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• Released on the 19th September 2014

• Active until 30th November 2014

• 43 answers were received

• Survey was anonymous (23 identified themselves)

• Almost all the questions were optional


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Survey Breakdown

• General questions

• Questions about HelpDesk

• Questions about MSG package

• Questions about PPS package

• Common questions about products distribution.


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Type of User

28

6

6

2

1

0 5 10 15 20 25 30

National MeteorologicalService

University/ResearchCenter

Private Company

Private User

Other


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NWCSAF 2014 Users’ Survey. Help Desk

How often do you access NWCSAF Help Desk (www.nwcsaf.org)?

4

3

15

21

Every day

Few times a week

Few times a month

Less than once a month


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Could you please rate the usefulness of the NWCSAF Help Desk? Being 1 "Not useful at all" and 10 "Extremely useful"

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Answered by 39 peopleAverage: 8.0


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Proposed improvements

• To add a forum on use of products (2)

• To make a distinction between answered and solved mails in Mail Box

• To make the website more user friendly (2)

• To classify the Mail Box per item


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Main use of NWCSAF products

20

14

7

2

Operation/Forecast

Both

Research

Other

Use of the products for hazard warnings Yes: 25No: 17

Use of the products for commercial activity Yes: 6No: 37


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NWCSAF package used

32

9

1 1

MSG package

MSG & PPS

PPS package

None of them


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NWCSAF 2014 Users’ Survey. MSG part

Which SAFNWC/MSG version is currently running in your site?

26

10

1

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

SAFNWC/MSG v2013 SAFNWC/MSG v2012 Other


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Which of the current SAFNWC/MSG Products are you using?

30 31

26

20 20

14

8

15

10 10 10

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

PGE01

Cma

PGE02

CT

PGE03

CTTH

PGE04

PC

PGE05

CRR

PGE09

HRW

PGE10

ASII

PGE11

RDT

PGE13

SPhR

PGE14

PCPh

PGE14

CRPh

Answered by 33 people


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Could you please rate the usefulness of the products you are using? Being 1 "Not useful at all" and 10 "Extremely useful"

6,7

7,58,3

8,1

6,4

7,5 7,4

4,3

7,07,3 7,5

0,001,002,003,004,005,006,007,008,009,00

10,00

PGE01

CMa

PGE02

CT

PGE03

CTTH

PGE04

PC

PGE05

CRR

PGE09

HRW

PGE10

ASII

PGE11

RDT

PGE13

SPhR

PGE14

PCPh

PGE14

CRPh



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PGE01 CMa

PGE02 CT

PGE03 CTTH

PGE04 PC

PGE05 CRR

PGE09 HRW

PGE10 ASII

PGE11 RDT

PGE13 SPhR

PGE14 PCPh

PGE14 CRPh

1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 02 1 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 02 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 11 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 01 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

METEOSAT-7FY-2GOMS

GOES-N (13-14-15)COMSMTSAT

Products adapted to other satellites by users

Products the users would like to be adapted to other satellites (current & coming)

PGE01 CMa

PGE02 CT

PGE03 CTTH

PGE04 PC

PGE05 CRR

PGE09 HRW

PGE10 ASII

PGE11 RDT

PGE13 SPhR

PGE14 PCPh

PGE14 CRPh

PGE15 CMIC

PGE16 EXIM

PGE17 ASII-NG

PGE18 CI

PGE19 CW

26 26 26 20 20 22 12 24 17 20 18 22 12 9 22 202 2 2 2 3 3 0 2 0 2 1 2 2 1 3 18 8 8 4 5 4 0 4 0 6 5 4 3 1 5 30 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 01 1 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 17 6 6 4 4 3 2 3 2 4 3 1 2 0 2 28 8 8 2 3 4 2 3 2 5 4 1 2 0 2 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 01 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 12 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 1 0 1 1

INSAT-3ELECTRO-LFY-4

COMSGEO-KOMPSAT 2MTSATHIMAWARI-8/9

MTGGOES-N (13-14-15)GOES-R


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Other: Fog and Low cloud identification and tracking Divergence product to identifity strong vertical movements + Fog Information on conceptionel model Shapiro-Keyser

Users' future needs in Nowcasting

3

7

12

20

17

15

24

19

19

19

0 5 10 15 20 25

Other

Detection, tracking and forecast of dry intrusions

Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMVs) for a specific need

Extrapolated Imagery

Precipitation probability and rate

Cumulus/ Stratus distinction

Cloud Top Microphysics

Thunderstorm Warning and Tracking

Clear Air Pre-convective Environment (Instability)

Cloud Pre-convective Environment (Convection Initiation)


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NWCSAF/MSG Products that could cover Users’ needs:

o Icing

oUse of other MTG instruments e.g. Lightning sensor to improve RDT

oDiscrimination between convective and non-convective cloud pixels

oPossibility to use other cloud products (like EUMETSAT OCA), to improve the HRW quality (e.g. height assignment)

oConvection Initiation

oConvection Warning

oCloud Microphysics

oASII-NG


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MTG based NWCSAF Products interesting for the User:oCloud Base Level

oIntra-cloud water information or profiling

oWind profiles

oBetter thin cirrus detection

oLightning Imager for lightning over Africa

oConvection Initiation

oConvection Warning

oCloud Microphysics

oASII-NG

oExtrapolated Imagery


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Use of MSG RSS images to run NWCSAF software

10

16

Yes

No

Coments:• Plans to do preoperational test with RSS data• RSS is essential in NWC• It’s planned• Only used for case studies• Suggestion to make a “mixed” method that runs every 15 min but taking advantage of the information of RSS images


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NWCSAF 2014 Users’ Survey. PPS part

SAFNWC/PPS version installed

0

1

2

3

4

SAFNWC/PPS v2014 SAFNWC/PPS v2012 SAFNWC/PPS v2010



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SAFNWC/PPS Products used

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1

2

3

4

5

PGE01 Cma PGE02 CT PGE03 CTTH PGE04 PC PGE05 CPP



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Could you please rate the usefulness of the products you are using? Being 1 "Not useful at all" and 10 "Extremely useful"

8,08,89,2 9,0 9,2

0

2

4

6

8

10

PGE01 CMa PGE02 CT PGE03 CTTH PGE04 PC PGE05 CPP



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• PPS already adapted to the VIIRS sensor on S-NPP

• Support for VIIRS will continue on future JPSS and NPOESS platforms.


PGE01 CMa

PGE02 CT

PGE03 CTTH

PGE04 PC

PGE05 CPP

EPS-SG (METimage sensor) 4 4 4 3 3

FY3-D, E, F (MERSI-II sensor) 3 3 3 1 2

Sentinel 3 (SLSTR sensor) 4 4 4 2 3

Users needs for future adaptations


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Future needs in Nowcasting

0 1 2 3 4 5

Other

S-NPP cloud products at highest posibleresolution (375m at nadir instead of 750m)

Precipitation probability and rate from cloud topmicrophysics (CPP)

Cumulus/Stratus distinction

Other: Fog and Low clouds


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New NWCSAF/PPS Products that could cover Users’ needs:

o Cloud base height

o Fog probability product

o Aerosol-cloud separation (esp. of volcanic origin)

o Detection of supercooled water

EPS-SG based Nowcasting products that could be of interest for users (4):

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)


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Installation of NWCSAF/PPS v2014 from precompiled binary packages

1

1

2

2

I have installed NWCSAF/PPSv2014 with help of precompiledbinary packages.

I have installed NWCSAF/PPSv2014, but I have not usedprecompiled binary packages.

I plan to install NWCSAF/PPS v2014with help of precompiled binarypackages.

I will not use precompiled binarypackages.


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NWCSAF 2014 Users’ Survey. Distribution

Did you know that SAFNWC/MSG Cloud products (Full Disk) are being distributed via the EUMETCAST Service?

192

9Yes, I am aware of this service.

Yes, I am using this service.

Yes, I plan to use this service.

No, I didn't know about this service.



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Usefulness of other SAFNWC/MSG products being distributed via the EUMETCAST service (24):

YES (12) NO (12)

• PC (2)• CRR (2)• RDT (3)

• Prefer calculating locally (2)• Only to compare with own products.


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Did you know that NWCSAF/PPS Cloud Mask, Cloud Type and CTTH products from AVHRR are being distributed via the

EUMETCAST NWC-EARS Service?

13

3

11

Yes, I am aware of this service.

Yes, I am using this service.

Yes, I plan to use this service.

No, I didn't know about this service.



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... also receiving products for VIIRS (S_NPP)? 8

... also receiving CPP products (cloud microphysical parameters)? 4

... also receiving precipitation products? 6

Via the EUMETCAST NWC-EARS service, would you be interested in ...?



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Thanks for your attention!

Any question?

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NWCSAF 2014 Users’ Survey NWC SAF 2015 Users Workshop 24 - 26 February 2015 Ana Sánchez Piqué [email protected]