New geostationary meteorological products for nowcasting applications on EUMETCast soon

The Rapidly Developing Thunderstorms — Convection Warning (RDT-CW) product and the Convective Rain Rate (CRR) product are two new geostationary meteorological products for nowcasting applications from the Meteosat 0° service.

• RDT-CW product: it provides short-range forecasting and nowcasting users with a large range of parameters about convection events and their predicted development.
• CRR product: it is based on estimates of rainfall rates from convective systems, using MSG SEVIRI images from multiple spectral channels.

Both products are generated with the NWC-SAF Geo 2016 software package. They are in netCDF4 format.

Example filenames, file sizes and frequency

RDT-CW product

Example filename: S_NWC_RDT-CW_MSG4_global-VISIR_20190221T141500Z_060.nc
Average file size:
Frequency: 480 files/day

CRR product

Example filename: S_NWC_CRR_MSG4_global-VISIR_20190221T141500Z.nc
Average file size:
Frequency: 96 files/day

The products will be distributed on EUMETCast Africa:
Channel: A1C-GEO-4
Multicast address: 224.223.225.1
PID: 100

Users already subscribed to ‘0° Meteosat Meteorological Products’ on EUMETCast Africa will receive these new products automatically. Other users wishing to receive these products should register via our Earth Observation Portal (EOP).

For more information, contact our User Service Helpdesk.