Sentinel-3 atmospheric products on EUMETCast Africa soon

Products

Fire Radiative Power (FRP) NRT

The Copernicus Sentinel-3 NRT FRP product identifies the location, and quantifies the radiative power, of any hotspot present on land and ocean Earth surfaces, that radiates a heating signal within a pixel size of 1 km². All threatening hotspots are identified and characterised within three hours from SLSTR observation sensing time.

The product is produced by the OFRaP-CS3 (Optimized Fire Radiative Power for Copernicus Sentinel-3) processor. Since the release of the latest Collection 2 in December 2021, the NRT FRP product is available during both night and day-times. For more information, see: Release of Collection 2 of S3 NRT Fire Radiative Power.

The FRP products for Africa are derived by geographically filtering for products over the African continent and islands as area of interest.

Example filename

S3B_SL_2_FRP____20220522T185628_20220522T190128_20220522T213432_0299_066_156_AFR__MAR_O_NR_002.SEN3.tar

Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) NRT

The Copernicus Sentinel-3 NRT AOD product quantifies the abundance of aerosol particles, and monitors their global distribution and long-range transport, at the scale of 9.5 x 9.5 km². All observations are made available in less than three hours from the SLSTR observation sensing time. It is only applicable during daytime.

The product is generated from the OSSAR-CS3 processor (Optimized Simultaneous Surface Aerosol Retrieval for Copernicus Sentinel-3). Since the release of the latest Collection 2 in October 2021, the overall product scientific maturity label is Preliminary operational. For more information, see: Sentinel-3 NRT Level 2 aerosol product Collection 2.

The AOD products for Africa are derived by geographically filtering for products over the African continent and islands as area of interest.

Example filename

S3A_SL_2_AOD____20220519T112407_20220519T112906_20220519T134834_0299_085_251_AFR__MAR_O_NR_002.SEN3.tar

Note: The AOD product will replace the Sentinel-3 Synergie Level 2 product in STC from 8 June 2022.

The FRP and AOD products will be distributed on EUMETCast Africa:

Channel: A1C-S3A-04 (for Sentinel-3A), A1C-S3B-04 (for Sentinel-3B)
PID: 100
Multicast address: 224.223.225.6

Users wishing to receive these products should register via our Earth Observation Portal (EOP).

For more information, contact our User Service Helpdesk.