Polar Satellite Week Web Tour

Nuno Moreira 9 Nov 2012

Session 1

Steve Ackerman, CIMSS, Univ. Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Overview of cloud products

Sheldon Kusselson, NOAA, USA

Overview of microwave products and Blended Total Precipitable Water and rain rate

http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/bTPW/TPW_Animation.html?product=EUROPE_TPW

Blended TPW

Blended TPW Anomaly

http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/atmosphere/brr/brr_loops.html?product=EU&maptype=RR

Blended Rain Rate

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/imagery/neatl.html

Group of products

Session 2

Adam Dybbroe, SMHI/NWCSAF, Sweden

Nowcasting Products from Polar Orbits

Stefania De Angelis, CNMCA/ H-SAF, Italy

Precipitation within HiydroSAF

http://nwcsaf.smhi.se/LocalReception.php

Cloud Phase

http://hsaf.meteoam.it/

Precipitation

Session 3

Joseph Sienkiewicz, NOAA, USA

Applications of Satellite Derived Ocean Surface Vector Winds

Regis Borde, EUMETSAT

Polar Winds

Surface Wind over Oceanhttp://www.knmi.nl/scatterometer/ascat_osi_12_prod/ascat_app.cgi

Surface Wind over Oceanhttp://manati.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/datasets/ASCATData.php/http://manati.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/datasets/OSCATData.php/

Surface Wind over Ocean

http://www.eumetrain.org/eport.html

Session 4

Nan Hao, O3MSAF/DLR, Germany

Ozone and minor trace gas products from GOME-2 and IASI

Ozone Total Column http://atmos.caf.dlr.de/gome2/index.html

Ozone Depletion http://atmos.caf.dlr.de/gome2/service_o3.html

www.o3msaf.fmi.fi

Ozone Total Column

http://uv-saf.dmi.dk/Europe3.2.html

UV-Index

Session 5

Tony McNally, ECMWF

Data assimilation of polar orbiting satellites at ECMWF

Ralf Bennartz, University of Wisconsin, USA

Atmospheric Soundings with AIRS and AMSU Sensors

http://www.orbit.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/opdb/poes/ATOVS_soundings.php

ATOVS Sounding products (HIRS, AMSU-A, MHS)

Session 6Sérgio Muacho, IPMA, Portugal

Tracking an Atlantic Wave Storm with Jason-2 Altimeter

José Cândido, WavEC (Wave Energy Center), Portugal

Use of Altimeter Data for Wave Energy Applications

Significant Wave Height (SWH)

http://www.eumetrain.org/eport.html

Hurricane Sandy Waves

http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/en/

Session 7Sebastian Hahn, TU-Wien, Austria

Soil Moisture from ASCAT

Lourdes Bugalho (IM/IPMA),Portugal

Fire Risks and Burnt Areas - Part 1

Renata Libonati (CPTEC/INPE), Brazil

Fire Risks and Burnt Areas - Part 2

http://www.ipf.tuwien.ac.at/radar/dv_new/ipfdv/index.php?dataviewer=ascat

Soil Moisture

http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/corine-land-cover-2000-by-country

Corine Land Cover

http://www.inpe.br/queimadas/

http://peassaba.cptec.inpe.br/queimadas/qmanova/sitAtual.php

Forest Fires

Session 8

Nigel Atkinson, NWPSAF/MetOffice, UK

Processing Tools - AAPP

Piet Stammes, KNMI/O3MSAF, The Netherlands

Aerosol Information from the UV-Visible Spectrometer GOME-2

ASCAT wind assimilation# observations used

http://www.ecmwf.int/products/forecasts/d/charts/monitoring/satellite/

http://www.temis.nl/airpollution/absaai/Absorbing Aerosol Index

Monitoring Reports

http://research.metoffice.gov.uk/research/interproj/nwpsaf/monitoring.html

www.nwpsaf.org

http://www.temis.nl/o3msaf/vaac_pmd/Absorbing Aerosol Index – for VAAC

Processing Tools

www.pytroll.org

Open Source Python Modules - Pytroll

AAPP – ATOVS and AVHRR Pre-Processing Tools http://research.metoffice.gov.uk/research/interproj/nwpsaf/aapp/index.html