Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute; Ministery Of Infrastructure And The Environment

Training
Scatterometry Training Material
We participate in training on wind scatterometer applications, ranging from marine forecasting to Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) and oceanography. A selection of web links is provided below.

Presentations and documents for the NWP SAF mesoscale data assimilation workshop, September 2018:
Presentation held at the workshop
Summary of the workshop, presented at the EUMETSAT satellite conference
Wind Bias Correction Guide, v1.3 (NWPSAF-KN-UD-007)
High resolution data assimilation guide, v1.2 (NWPSAF-KN-UD-008)

Mark Higgins, training officer at EUMETSAT, explains how to interpret the ASCAT data:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGM9J77Ddk0 (video)

OSI SAF ASCAT winds all over the oceans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd65RSdF7tk (video)

Training course: Applications of Satellite Wind and Wave Products for Marine Forecasting, December 2011:
http://vimeo.com/album/1783188 (video)

The Xynthia Storm by ASCAT on EUMETRain website:
https://eumetrain.org/resources/xynthia-storm-ascat

EUMETrain Ocean and Sea Week, October/November 2011:
https://resources.eumetrain.org/events/oceansea_week_2011.html (video)

NWP SAF Scatterometer Data Assimilation Workshop, April 2011:
https://nwp-saf.eumetsat.int/oldsite/deliverables/scatterometer/data_assimilation_workshop/

Use of Satellite Wind & Wave Products for Marine Forecasting:
https://www.goosocean.org/index.php?option=com_oe&task=viewEventRecord&eventID=513

EUMETSAT satellite data visualisation:
https://view.eumetsat.int/productviewer?v=default

Using Scatterometer Wind and Altimeter Wave Estimates in Marine Forecasting on MetEd/Comet:
https://www.meted.ucar.edu/EUMETSAT/marine_forecasting/

Ocean and Sea Ice SAF webinar on Climate Data Records on EUMETSAT training website:
https://training.eumetsat.int/course/view.php?id=431
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Please contact Ad Stoffelen.
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