18th Meeting of the RA I Dissemination Expert Group (RAIDEG-18)
Date & Time
10-11 September 2025 09:00 - 17:00 CET
Logistics
Venue: WMO headquarters, Press Room (ground floor)
Provisional agenda
Wednesday 10 September 2025
Opening Session (09:00 - 10:00)
Welcome (Chairperson / WMO / EUMETSAT)
Adoption of Agenda
Adoption of the Report of the Previous RAIDEG Meetings
Review of List of Actions
Session #1 EUMETCast-Africa dissemination baseline and PUMA stations (10:00 - 13:00)
10h00 EUMETCast-Africa baseline
Presentation of current baseline and proposed changes (EUMETSAT – Erdem Erdi)
Discussion
10h30 Coffee break
10h45 Update on new generation of meteorological satellites
WMO Space Programme update – WMO (Heikki Pohjola)
Status of Meteosat (MSG, IODC, MTG-I, MTG-S) – EUMETSAT – Erdem Erdi
Status of Polar Orbiting satellites (Metop, EPS-SG) – EUMETSAT – Erdem Erdi
Update on the Nowcasting SAF software – EUMETSAT NWC SAF
Update on H-SAF products - EUMETSAT H-SAF
Open Discussion
12h00 PUMA stations
Outcome of the PUMA annual survey (EUMETSAT - 15 min)
Status of PUMA-2025 deployment (AUC-Tecnavia – 15 min)
Status of PUMA-2025 training (AUC and EUMETSAT – 15 min)
Latest update of the PUMA-2025 skyceiver (Techniavia 15 min)
13h00 Lunch Break
14h00 EUMETCast-Terrestrial – presentation (EUMETSAT / Ghana / Mauritius)
14h30 RARS-Africa. Status (ACMAD)
Session #2 - Regional reports
15h00 Report from regional representative (10 min each)
Northern Africa
Western Africa
Eastern Africa
Central Africa
Southern African
Indian Ocean
16h00 Coffee break
16h30 Report from the Regional training centre (10 min each)
EAMAC
IMTR
DMN Maroc
SAWS – South AFrica
17h30 End of Day #1
Thursday 11 September 2025
Session #3 – Early Warning
09h00 – Space for Early Warning
Update on EW4All - WMO – 20 min
Update on SEWA – AUC/EUMETSAT/ECMWF – 30 min
Status of Africa RSMC designation and update on SWFP programme – WMO – 20 min
Open discussion on requirement for satellite products to support Early Warning
10h30 Coffee break
TBC - Presentation from Global NWP centre (DWD, UkMET, MF, ECMWF) on NWP data (either available through EUMETCast or other means)
Session #4 – Others
11h30 (20 min each, inc. questions)
Presentation of WIS-2
Presentation of SOFF
Use of DCP-DCS (Data collection platform) in support to SOFF – case study
12h30 Lunch break
Session #5 – Closing
14h00
Review of the recommendations
Way forwards
Closing of the meeting
16h00 End of 18th RAIDEG meeting