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Satellite Application Facility for Numerical Weather Prediction

The NWP SAF is a EUMETSAT-funded activity that exists to co-ordinate research and development efforts among the SAF partners to improve the interface between satellite data and NWP for the benefit of EUMETSAT member states. The NWP SAF is led by the Met Office, with partners ECMWF, KNMI and Météo-France. More about the aims of the NWP SAF.

NWP SAF overview from EUMETSAT's IMAGE newsletter (PDF file)

 NWP SAF deliverables
The SAF is concerned with the NWP data assimilation process rather than with generating geophysical parameters. Its main deliverables are software packages and data monitoring reports.
 NWP SAF news
  • The OSCAT Wind Data Processor (OWDP) version 1.1 has been released. This is the first public release of the wind data processor for the OSCAT instrument onboard Oceansat-2. OWDP generates surface winds from OSCAT Normalized Radar Cross Section data. Updated technical reports on NWP SAF scatterometer software have also been added to the website. More information is available on the Scatterometer web pages. 9 April 2013.
  • AAPP update 7.4 has been released. The release includes Metop-B updates, improvements to the tools for handling Multi Mission Administration Messages and refinements to the processing of NPP. More information is available on the AAPP pages. 14 December 2012.
  • AAPP update 7.3 has been released. The release includes updated Metop-B data files, modifications to the handling of IASI principal components, BUFR encode/decode for the microwave instruments on FY-3A/B and modifications to the processing of NPP data. More information is available on the AAPP pages. 10 October 2012.
 Further news items can be seen on the NWP SAF News page.
 Visiting scientists

A visiting scientist programme allows scientists from institutions that are not SAF members to participate in the activities of the SAF. More about visiting scientists.
 Contact us
Questions for other users and developers can be posted on the RTTOV or AAPP Forums. To contact us with other enquiries, please use the NWP SAF Helpdesk link, or use a software request form to request a software deliverable.
 Members' site
This area of the site is restricted to the NWP SAF Development Team.

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