CWDP v1.0 has been released. This major release of the CFOSAT scatterometer wind data processor is the first version capable of processing real data from the French-Chinese CFOSAT satellite, the previous version was only tested with simulated data. On top of that, many improvements and bug fixes have been implemented in the software. See the CWDP pages (https://nwp-saf.eumetsat.int/site/software/scatterometer/cwdp/) for more information.

This 5-day course provides a complete overview of the usage of meteorological satellite observations in operational numerical weather prediction (NWP). It includes a series of lectures and practical sessions covering a range of topics – from fundamental theoretical concepts through to detailed practical implementations in modern state-of-the-art data assimilation systems.

The course will take place from 7 to 11 March 2022 at ECMWF headquarters in Reading (UK). There is no course fee for this course.

Registration closes: 29 October 2021

For more information, please see: https://events.ecmwf.int/event/273/overview

A new page, Data Reception Routes, summarises the routes via which data are received at DWD and MetOffice respectively. For some data types different reception routes are available and used at DWD and the MetOffice.

AAPP update 8.8 has been released. This update includes portability fixes (for gcc 8), DBNet station updates and a bug fix for HIRS processing. For details, see https://nwp-saf.eumetsat.int/site/software/aapp/documentation/release-history/.

The near-real-time data availability monitoring has been extended to provide coverage and timeliness plots based on DWD reception for the scatterometer on HY-2B and HY-2C (referred to as HSCAT) and also plots for geostationary ASR data streams additionally to the CSR data streams. Please visit the NRT availability monitoring web pages to access the plots.