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WMO SDS-WAS programme.Regional Center for Northern
Africa, Middle East and Europe.Activity Report 2010-2011
Enric Terradellas, José M. Baldasano, Emilio Cuevas and Francesco Benincasa
Meeting of the Regional Steering Group. Antalya, Turkey, 25-26 Nov. 2011
The Regional Center
The Regional Center is jointly managed by AEMET and the BSC-CNS. It is located in Barcelona, at BSC-CNS premises
Objetives of the Regional CenterLead the implementation and operation of an
integrated system of observation and prediction
Identify and improve observational and forecast products
Promote the creation and improvement of observational networks in developing countries.
Facilitate user access to information
Create and maintain a website
Create alternative systems tailored to users
Build capacity of countries to use the products supplied
•Monitor atmospheric dust
•Validate products from other observing systems
•Validate and verify model predictions
•Data assimilation into numerical models
•Ground-based•In-situ (AQ
monitoring stations)•Indirect
Observations: visibility•Sun photometers
(AERONET) •Lidar, ceilometers
•Satellite-based•GEO•LEO, MEO
Specific objectives
Observing systems
Integrated observational system
In-situ observations (AQ stations) Rural background stations Near-real-time data
Visibility
Tamanrasset, Algeria, 20-22 Feb. 2007
Cimel Electronique CE318
June 2009 29 June 2009 – Solar Village, Saudi Arabia
Lidar - Ceilometer
An elastic lidar and a ceilometer work following the same principle, but
The aim of LIDAR is to measure backscattering by molecules and aerosol.
The aim of ceilometers is to measure backscattering by clouds
EARLINET
Potenza, 26 June 2006
Ceilometer CHM15kx (manufactured by JenOptik)
GEO satellites. Products from SEVIRI
EUMETSAT RGB-dust UKMO dust AOD 550 nm
(qualitative) (quantitative)
4 July 2010 12:00 UTC
Products from LEO and MEO satellites
MODIS True Color 6 Apr. 2011
OMI
CALIPSO 7 Apr. 2011
PARASOL
SDS-África
Tamanrasset, Algeria Cairo, Egypt
Dust models
BSC-DREAM8b MACC-ECMWF INCA-LMDzT MÉTÉO-FRANCE
CHIMERE SKIRON TAU-DREAM8b NAAPS
DREAM8-SEEVCCC
Joint visualization
BSC-DREAM8bMACC-ECMWFINCA-LMDzT
SFC. CONCENTRATIONDUST AOD 550 nm
Model evaluation
Sep. 2011
Time-averaged products
http://sds-was.aemet.es
HOME
ABOUT US
FORECAST & PRODUCTS
PROJECTS & RESEARCH
MATERIALS
NEWS
EVENTS
CONTACT US
Atlantic Bird 3C-Band
EUMETCast
Capacity Building
Barcelona, Nov. 20108-12: Training Week on Satellite Meteorology15-19: Training Week on WMO SDS-WAS products
Lectures on atmospheric mineral dust and its impact on human
health, environment and economy
Barcelona, 13 Nov. 2010
Photo: Txus
Training on Meteorological Services, SDS Forecast and Early Warning System. Istanbul, 22-26 February 2011
2nd. Training Course on WMO SDS-WAS(satellite and ground observation and modelling of atmospheric dust). Antalya, 21-25 Nov. 2011
WMO SDS-WAS programmeRegional Center for Northern Africa,
Middle East and Europe
http://sds-was.aemet.es
