15th Meeting of the RA I Dissemination Expert Group (RAIDEG-15)
Time in UTC
(Dakar: UTC+0h; Brazzaville/Casablanca/Niamey: UTC+1h;
Darmstadt/Geneva: UTC+2h; Pretoria UTC +2h, Addis Ababa/Nairobi UTC+3h; Port Louis: UTC +4h)
Venue:
The meeting will be held in Darmstadt at the premises of European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) at Eumetsat Allee 1, 64295 Darmstadt, Germany.
Information Note for the meeting: download info package (updated on 6 June 2023)
Please be informed that RAIDEG is a closed meeting and attendance is granted exclusively through invitation
Agenda (Local time) updated on 19 September 2023
Presentations
DAY #1 – 26th September 2023
08h30 Registration
09h00 Welcome (RAIDEG Chair, WMO, EUMETSAT)
09h15 Adoption of the agenda
09h30 Report from RAIDEG chair
09h40 Review of actions from previous meetings
Session #1 – MTG status
10h00 Status of MTG Africa service and dissemination – Katja Hungershoefer (EUM)
10h30 Transition to MTG – Stephan Bojinski (EUM)
10h45 Coffee break
11h00 EUMETView: update for MTG – Sally Wannop (EUM)
11h15 EUMETSAT Data Access (EUMDAC) for Meteosat data –Carla Barroso (EUM)
11h35 An example of MTG visualization tool (SIFT) - Andrea Meraner (EUM)
11h50 Q&A
12h30 Visit of the Control room and MTG-Africa processing facility
13h00 Lunch Break
Session #2 – Dissemination update and feedback from regions
14h00 Status of EUMETSAT Operational Services & Dissemination Baseline Update Document (inc EUMETCast-Terrestrial) – Sally Wannop (EUM)
14h30 Report from each region (15 min per region and per VLab training centre)
15h30 Coffee break
15h45 Report from each region (continued)
North Africa - South Africa - West Africa - EAMAC (activities)- IOC - IMTR - Central Africa
17h00 End of Day #1
18h00 Social event
Day #2 – 27th September 2023
Session #3 – Update of data access and visualisation tool in Africa
09h00 Status of ClimSA procurement of PUMA-MTG and CLIMSA stations (AUC)
09h45 Status of preparation of ClimSA training activities (AUC)
10h15 Feedback on Nowcasting SAF via Cloud (ADAGUC) – Trebossen (EUM)
10h30 Coffee break
10h45 Presentation of European Weather Cloud – tbc (EUM)
11h00 Perspective for use of Cloud in Africa (all)
11h15 Status of the RARS Africa (ACMAD)
12h00 Survey of PUMA stations and preparation for new station – Trebossen (EUM)
12h30 Lunch Break
Session #4 – Prospective activities
14h00 Presentation from the region (15 min each)
- ACMAD (Leon)
- IMTR (Sara)
- Indian Ocean (Ram)
- Central Africa (Maixent)
15h00 Survey of PUMA stations and preparation for new station – Trebossen (EUM
15h20 Outcome of the Webinar on Atmospheric Composition and follow-on activities (Sabrina Szeto <consult@sabrinaszeto.com>)
15h40 Outcome of the Webinar on Hydrology and follow-on activities – Vincent Gabaglio (EUM)
16h00 Coffee break
16h20 WISER-Southern Africa presentation (Nico – SAWS)
16h40 Presentation from WMO on the Web-based Hazard Watch services (Abubakr)
17h00 Status of MTG&AMSAF proposal (Space for Early Warning) – Vincent (EUM
17h15 Wrap-up and list of actions
17h45 Closure of the meeting
17h00 End of Day#2