Rainfall estimation for food security in Africa, using the Meteosat Second

Generation (MSG) satellite.Robin Chadwick, David Grimes, Roger Saunders,

Pete Francis & Tom Blackmore

MSG wavelength channels

Visible

IR window channelsWater vapour

Near

IR IR

Met office NIMROD nowcasting precipitation estimation product

• Rain-rate estimates over Europe produced operationally every 15 minutes

• Radar Satellite Analysis

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Francis et al ‘06

AMMA radar locations

2006 MIT radar location

2004 Rain-gauge validation domain

Daytime case study:14/07/06 06:20

Night time case study: 09/07/06 02:20

Scattered showers case study:20/07/06 17:50

Future work

• Process estimates at for all 2006 JAS and compare against radar data

• Process estimates for 2004 JAS and validate with rain-gauge data.