The first Radio-Sounding Campaign dedicated to MT-SAPHIR based Water Vapor products validation covered the 29th May – 11th June (15 days) thanks to a lot of support from ASECNA (Agence pour la SECurité de la NAvigation Aerienne en Afrique et…
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Special web pages are available on the current validation campaign of MT on the Super site of Ouagadougou. In particular you can see the latest radar quicklooks: http://meghatropiques.ipsl.fr/2012-africa-validation-campaign.html
MSG-3 was successfully launched from Kourou. The payloads are SEVIRI and Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB). GERB will be switched on a week later after launch. GERB testing will involve in particular our colleagues from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)…
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For each satellite, the IXION software, devlopped at LMD, provides three relevant informations: – Orbit (map with the satellite ground track) – Local view (overpass schedule for a given location), – Sampling (monthly table of overpasses). With this new…
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The Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) MTGV Super-Site is now fully operational with the Xport polarimetric radar ready to sample convective systems. The first Radio-Sounding Campaign dedicated to MT-SAPHIR based Water Vapor products validation, has been going on since May 29th, thanks…
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