{"id":1229,"date":"2018-04-05T09:30:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T09:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cwg-satellite-guidance\/?page_id=1229"},"modified":"2018-04-05T11:43:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T11:43:01","slug":"precipitating-clouds-and-precipitation-products-based-on-cloud-physical-properties","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cwg-satellite-guidance\/precipitating-clouds-and-precipitation-products-based-on-cloud-physical-properties\/","title":{"rendered":"Precipitating Clouds and Precipitation Products based on Cloud Physical Properties"},"content":{"rendered":"

Precipitating Clouds (PC) and Precipitation Products based on Cloud Physical Properties (PC-Ph)<\/h1>\n

Operationally produced by NWC SAF.<\/p>\n

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Application:<\/h2>\n

An estimation of the probability of precipitation.<\/p>\n

Detection of areas with certain probability of precipitation occurrence.<\/p>\n

Advantages:<\/h2>\n

\u2713 <\/span>Available over the geostationary satellite coverage.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2713 Generated every 15 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2713 PC available during both day and night-time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Limitations:<\/h2>\n

X PC does not detect precipitation from low clouds.<\/span><\/p>\n

X PC-Ph available only during day-time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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PC Product vs. Radar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Accessibility and Dissemination:<\/h2>\n
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  1. Local installation: Product is accessible after registration (signed contract) at NWCSAF<\/a> and installation of NWCSAF GEO V2016 in the local environment. It can be run every 15 minutes or with the different settings every 5 minutes RSS. Output format is NetCdf.<\/li>\n
  2. Images for the last 24h, updated every 15 minutes at NWCSAF web site: http:\/\/www.nwcsaf.org\/pc<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Additional Information:<\/h2>\n

    Web site<\/a>
    \nTraining Module
    \n     Practical info and documentation<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

    <\/div>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Overview modified after NWC SAF Practical Guide<\/a> by V. Nietosvaara, EUMETSAT, 2018.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

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    Precipitating Clouds (PC) and Precipitation Products based on Cloud Physical Properties (PC-Ph) Operationally produced by NWC SAF.   Overview modified after NWC SAF Practical Guide by V. Nietosvaara, EUMETSAT, 2018.   <\u00a0RDT Product \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Home\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CRR Product ><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1229","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cwg-satellite-guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cwg-satellite-guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cwg-satellite-guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cwg-satellite-guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cwg-satellite-guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cwg-satellite-guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cwg-satellite-guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1229\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cwg-satellite-guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}