Cold U-shaped storm

The midnight enhanced IR10.8 of 3 September 2010 shows over southern Italy a cold U-shaped storm indictave for very bad weather. In fact the Italian Meteorological Service have issued a red warning in MeteoAlarm, warning for excessive rainfall.

25 Aug 2010 - Weather Briefing 25 August

In case you have missed the Weather Briefing of Wednesday 25 August, the recording has been made available. A new chance for you to join will be in one month. On 30 September at 0800UTC the Weather Briefing will be lead by Vesa Nietosvaara. Participation is as always free, just sign up using following form.

23 Aug 2010 - New look

A new look to Satrep Online. Reason for this update is the introduction of the South African Satrep Online (See top navigation) that is kindly being produced by the colleagues at SAWS. Also new is the way to contact us or on how to experience on upcoming weather briefings, event weeks or satellite courses. At the bottom you will find the links to e-mail us or (if you are into that) the possibility to join us on facebook and subscribe to our twitter page. We do hope you can appreciate this update and the new products from South Africa.

16 Apr 2010 - Tutorial on ash detection

Jochen Kerkmann (EUMETSAT) has given an explanation on the detection of ash using Meteosat Second Generation satellite. The recording of this tutorial is available at following address.

03 Feb 2010 - Event week on snow

The snow week consists of several online sessions dealing with the forecasting, nowcasting and monitoring of snow with the use of geostationary and polar orbiting satellites and radar. For those of you that missed this event, all the sessions have been recorded for download.

Satrep Online is a product of EUMeTrain and sponsored by EUMETSAT. Satrep Online is developed to offer you the chance to test your own skills in the recognition of conceptual models. By combining satellite imagery with NWP a satellite image can be parsed into conceptual models which help you to get a 3d view of the state of the atmosphere on synoptic scale. Currently up to 60 of these conceptual models exist and are fully described in SatManu, the Manual of Synoptic Satellite Meteorology.

The analysis of a satellite image by these conceptual models has proven not only to be useful to the forecaster but also serves as a trainingtool. The todays images offers you the latest Meteosat Second Generation satellite images in combination with a wide range of basic and derived ECMWF and UKMO model fields. Through the archive past data can be accessed and studied.