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)
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 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 and training (AUC-Tecnavia – EUMETSAT - 30 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 representatives (10 min each)
16h00 Coffee break
16h30 Report from the Regional training centre (10 min each)
17h00 Report from the University of Ghana (JCOMM)
17h30 End of Day #1
Thursday 11 September 2025
Session #3 – Early Warning
09h00 – Space for Early Warning
Update on the Nowcasting SAF software – EUMETSAT NWC SAF
Update on EW4All from WMO – 30 min
Overview of the EW4ALL initiative – Erica Allis
EW4ALL Satellite Gap Analysis – Zoya Andreeva
Training on satellite for operational hydrometeorological services in Africa – Tania Gascon
Update on SEWA – AUC/EUMETSAT/ECMWF – 30 min
Status of Africa RSMC designation and update on SWFP programme – WMO – 15 min
Open discussion on requirement for satellite products to support Early Warning
10h30 Coffee break
Session #4 – Others
11h00 (20 min each, inc. questions)
Use of DCP-DCS (Data collection platform) in support to SOFF – case study
12h30 Lunch break
Session #5 – Closing
14h00
Way forwards
Closing of the meeting
16h00 End of 18th RAIDEG meeting