{"id":5416,"date":"2021-06-21T15:54:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T13:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/?p=5416"},"modified":"2021-06-21T15:54:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T13:54:59","slug":"new-essl-eumetsat-partnership-on-using-next-generation-satellite-data-in-severe-convective-storm-forecasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/new-essl-eumetsat-partnership-on-using-next-generation-satellite-data-in-severe-convective-storm-forecasting\/","title":{"rendered":"New ESSL\u2013EUMETSAT partnership on using next-generation satellite data in severe convective storm forecasting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ESSL is delighted to announce that it has entered into a contract with EUMETSAT for three years to train forecasters of the national (hydro-)meteorological services of its member states. The training focuses on the use of products from the next-generation satellite missions Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) and EUMETSAT Polar System\u2013Second Generation (EPS-SG) for the analysis and nowcasting of severe convective storms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/eumetsat.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5417\" width=\"248\" height=\"124\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EUMETSAT and ESSL have started this contract on 1 June 2021 that is intended to pave the way for longer-term collaboration in support of the European meteorological community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ESSL will organize training testbeds for operational forecasters of Europe\u2019s weather services, introducing proxy, and later real, data from EUMETSAT\u2019s next-generation missions with a focus on severe convective storm forecasting. The aim is to totally train about 10\u201315% of the operational meteorological workforce in European weather services, or about 200\u2013300 forecasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The testbeds will mainly be organized at ESSL&#8217;s Research and Training Centre in Wiener Neustadt (Austria), but can also be hosted by weather services with suitable facilities upon their request. Optionally, testbeds can be held online as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Besides the testbeds, expert workshops will be organized for a small number of people that include senior forecasters, product experts, senior trainers, science-to-operations staff, and experts from EUMETSAT. The aim of these workshops is to better understand novel capabilities for severe storm analysis and prediction, such as with the new 0.9&nbsp;mm and 2.25&nbsp;mm bands, the Lightning Imager, and the Infrared Sounder, and to develop training concepts and material.&nbsp;The first such workshop will be planned during the first months of 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESSL is delighted to announce that it has entered into a contract with EUMETSAT for three years to train forecasters of the national (hydro-)meteorological services of its member states. The training focuses on the use of products from the next-generation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/new-essl-eumetsat-partnership-on-using-next-generation-satellite-data-in-severe-convective-storm-forecasting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5416"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5422,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions\/5422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}