{"id":11770,"date":"2018-03-07T14:50:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T14:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nwpsaf.eu\/site\/?p=11770"},"modified":"2018-03-07T14:50:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T14:50:34","slug":"release-of-new-nwp-saf-era-5-satellite-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nwp-saf.eumetsat.int\/site\/release-of-new-nwp-saf-era-5-satellite-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Release of new NWP SAF ERA-5 satellite monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecmwf.int\/en\/forecasts\/charts\/obstat\/?facets=Experiment,ERA5\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Satellite monitoring time-series using ERA-5 as the reference atmospheric state<\/a> are now available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecmwf.int\/en\/forecasts\/quality-our-forecasts\/monitoring-observing-system\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ECMWF monitoring site<\/a>, and linked from the <a href=\"https:\/\/nwp-saf.eumetsat.int\/site\/monitoring\/\">Monitoring overview page<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Atmospheric states produced by re-analysis projects are generated using a fixed state-of-the-art NWP system applied to historical observations. As such they provide a much more suitable reference against which we can assess the quality of a satellite over its lifetime.  To support users involved in climate applications, long timeseries quality statistics for satellites monitored against the ERA-5 reference have been included as an additional option to the existing operational monitoring web pages. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecmwf.int\/en\/forecasts\/datasets\/reanalysis-datasets\/era5\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ERA-5<\/a> replaces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecmwf.int\/en\/forecasts\/datasets\/reanalysis-datasets\/era-interim\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ERA-Interim<\/a> as the primary ECMWF reanalysis product, but both will remain openly available on the ECMWF website. An expanded list of satellite sensors (compared to ERA-Interim) is provided in the new ERA-5 products. Further information can be found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/nwp-saf.eumetsat.int\/site\/download\/monitoring_documentation\/nwpsaf-ERA-5-monitoring-release-v1.pdf\">release note<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite monitoring time-series using ERA-5 as the reference atmospheric state are now available on the ECMWF monitoring site, and linked from the Monitoring overview page. Atmospheric states produced by re-analysis projects are generated using a fixed state-of-the-art NWP system applied to historical observations. As such they provide a much more suitable reference against which we can assess the quality of a satellite over its lifetime. To support users involved in climate applications, long timeseries quality statistics for satellites monitored against the ERA-5 reference have been included as an additional option to the existing operational monitoring web pages. ERA-5 replaces ERA-Interim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwp-saf.eumetsat.int\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwp-saf.eumetsat.int\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwp-saf.eumetsat.int\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwp-saf.eumetsat.int\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwp-saf.eumetsat.int\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nwp-saf.eumetsat.int\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwp-saf.eumetsat.int\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwp-saf.eumetsat.int\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwp-saf.eumetsat.int\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}