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

Documents

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