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Rob Roebeling
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I am working on the Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring (CM-SAF). The CM-SAF aims to generate and archive high quality data set on climate relevant products for a region covering Europe and Africa. The CM-SAF products support the analysis and diagnosis of climate parameters in order to detect and understand changes in the climate system. KNMI has the task to develop retrieval methods of cloud physical products from NOAA-AVHRR, MSG-SEVIRI and later METOP meteorological satellites. We use observations obtained during ground measurement campaigns such as CLOUDNET, CLIWANET and BBC2, to validate the satellite retrieved cloud thermodynamic phase, cloud optical thickness and cloud liquid water path products.

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Name / Acronym:CM-SAF
Full name:Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring
Description:The primary objective of EUMETSAT is to establish, maintain and exploit European systems of operational meteorological satellites, taking into account as far as possible the recommendations of the World Meteorological Organization. However, meteorological satellites, by virtue of their data coverage and operational characteristics, provide long term global data sets of vital importance for the monitoring of the Earth and its climate. This is reflected in the amended EUMETSAT Convention, which came into force in November 2000, and which defines that a further objective of EUMETSAT: to contribute to the operational monitoring of the climate and the detection of global climatic changes. A Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring (CM SAF) was initiated in order to generate and archive high quality data sets on a continuous basis for the following application purposes: Monitoring of the climate state and its variability; Analysis and diagnosis of climate parameters to identify and understand changes in the climate system; Input for climate models to study processes in the climate system on a European and global scale and for climate prediction, and Validation of simulation models (climate and NWP). The key objectives of the CM SAF are: to support climate monitoring at regional scale; to generate products in an operational off-line environment; to generate validated, homogeneous and consistent data sets, and to enable long-term processing with reprocessing capability.
Run Period:01 January 2001 - 01 February 2012
Source of finance:EUMETSAT
Coordinator:DWD
Partners:DWD, FMI, KMI, Meteo Swiss, SMHI
KNMI Team:Rob Roebeling, Jan Fokke Meirink, Erwin Wolters
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Web site:http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/What_We_Do/SAFs/Projects/SP_1124289151210
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