Rainfall estimation for food security in Africa, using the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellite. Robin Chadwick, David Grimes, Roger Saunders, Pete Francis & Tom Blackmore
Rainfall estimation for food security in Africa, using the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellite. Robin Chadwick, David Grimes, Roger Saunders, Pete.
Mar 28, 2015
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Rainfall estimation for food security in Africa, using the Meteosat Second
Generation (MSG) satellite.Robin Chadwick, David Grimes, Roger Saunders,
Pete Francis & Tom Blackmore
MSG wavelength channels
Visible
IR window channelsWater vapour
Near
IR IR
Met office NIMROD nowcasting precipitation estimation product
• Rain-rate estimates over Europe produced operationally every 15 minutes
• Radar Satellite Analysis
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Francis et al ‘06
AMMA radar locations
2006 MIT radar location
2004 Rain-gauge validation domain
Daytime case study:14/07/06 06:20
Night time case study: 09/07/06 02:20
Scattered showers case study:20/07/06 17:50
Future work
• Process estimates at for all 2006 JAS and compare against radar data
• Process estimates for 2004 JAS and validate with rain-gauge data.
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