REFERENCES

Version 2025 documentation

Product User Manual for "Clear Air Products".  NWC-CDOP3-GEO-AEMET-SCI-UM-ClearAir,  18/12/2019.

Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document for "Clear Air Products". NWC-CDOP2-GEO-AEMET-SCI-ATBD-ClearAir, 18/12/2019.

Validation Report for "Clear Air Products" NWC-CDOP3-GEO-AEMET-SCI-VR-ClearAir, 18/12/2019.


AEMET clear air presentations and references

Miguel-Angel Martinez; 2025 (l). Experiences and preparation MTG era: iSHAI, tuning FCI RGBs, georing airmass RGB zenith angle normalized, VIS0.9, ... Joint FCI/LI Mission Advisory Group meeting with Champion Users, 2025-06-03 to 2025-06-05. Oral presentation online. Available copy of presentation on AEMET owncloud link.

Miguel-Angel Martinez; 2025 (k). NWCSAF approach for optimization of the use of IRS L2 (EUMETSAT and sSHAI) products. IRS-MAG meeting, 2025-06-03 to 2025-06-04. Oral presentation online. Available copy of presentation on AEMET owncloud link.

Miguel-Angel Martinez; 2025 (j). Other services from the GEO-S package: quickIRS, sSHAI_ES and Remapping tool. McIDAS Users Group Meeting 2025, 2025-05-21. Oral presentation online. Available copy of presentation on AEMET owncloud link.

Miguel-Angel Martinez; 2025 (i). McIDAS and NWCSAF. McIDAS Users Group Meeting 2025, 2025-05-21. Oral presentation online. Available copy of presentation on AEMET owncloud link.

Miguel-Angel Martinez; 2025 (h). sSHAI_ES “Sounder Satellite Humidity And Instability (sSHAI) based on EUMETSAT Secretariat (ES) retrievals” Service and Remapping tool to FCI grid. NWCSAF approach for optimization of the use of IRS L2 (EUMETSAT and sSHAI) products. ESSL-EUMETSAT Expert Workshop on Use of MTG-IRS L2 Products for Nowcasting . Available copy of presentation on AEMET owncloud link

Miguel-Angel Martinez; 2025 (g). Preparation of MTG era: New FCI, synthetic NWP RTTOV and Future IRS RGBs. WMO, EUMETSAT and SMHI RGB Workshop 2025, Norrköping (Sweden), 2025-04-01 to 2025-04-04. Oral presentation online. Available copy of presentation on AEMET owncloud link.

Miguel-Angel Martinez; 2025 (f). Remapping IRS and sSHAI_Es: NWCSAF approach for optimization of the use of IRS L2 (EUMETSAT and sSHAI) products. NWC SAF User´s Workshop 2025, Madrid, 2025-02-25 to 2025-02-27. Oral presentation. Available copy of presentation on AEMET owncloud link

Miguel-Angel Martinez; 2025 (e). qIRS service: NWCSAF approach for optimization of use of IRS spectra and images. NWC SAF User´s Workshop 2025, Madrid, 2025-02-25 to 2025-02-27. Oral presentation. Available copy of presentation on AEMET owncloud link

Miguel-Angel Martinez; 2025 (d). VIS0.9 & VIS0.8 for estimation of integrated precipitable water vapour. NWC SAF User´s Workshop 2025, Madrid, 2025-02-25 to 2025-02-27. Oral presentation. Available copy of presentation on AEMET owncloud link

Miguel-Angel Martinez; 2025 (c). iSHAI product from MTG-I1 on MTG era. NWC SAF User´s Workshop 2025, Madrid, 2025-02-25 to 2025-02-27. Oral presentation. Available copy of presentation on AEMET owncloud link

Miguel-Angel Martinez; 2025 (b). Some findings on winter FCI images. Dust and fog case studies.
3T (Train The Trainers) online forum, 2024-01-28. Oral presentation. Available copy of presentation on AEMET owncloud  link

Miguel-Angel Martinez; 2025 (a). Preparation of MTG era: Use of FCI VIS0.9 channel and GEO-S services qIRS and sSHAI_ES. NWC SAF CDOP4 6th Steering Group Meeting, Madrid, 2025-01-22. Available copy of presentation on AEMET owncloud link


Miguel-Angel Martinez and Jose Ignacio Prieto; 2024 (j) Introducción a MTG. Asociación Meteorlógica Española (Aula Francisco Moran). Youtube video with presentation on Spanish link.

Miguel-Angel Martinez; 2024 (i). All-sky use of FCI VIS0.9 and VIS0.8 channel for moisture detection in nowcasting. Synergetic use with iSHAI NWCSAF and NWP fields. ESSL-EUMETSAT Expert Workshop on FCI-based geophysical products, SMT retrievals, NWC-SAF products; 2024-12-17 to 2024-12-18. Online Workshop. Available copy of presentation on AEMET owncloud link

Miguel-Angel Martinez; 2024 (h). Early MTG-I/FCI loops comparisons of real and synthetic RTTOV from high spatial and temporal NWP models. Example of proxyTPW from FCI VIS0.9 and VIS0.8 channels. Waiting to MTG-S/IRS. ACCORD Physics Working Week 2024 Madrid Meeting; 2024-11-18 to 2024-11-22. Oral presentation. Available copy of presentation on AEMET owncloud link
 
Miguel-Angel Martinez; 2024 (g). Early activities on the use of synthetic FCI and MSG data on night time (fog and low clouwds) RGB tuning. 3T (Train The Trainers) online forum, 2024-10-29. Oral presentation. Available copy of presentation on AEMET owncloud link

Miguel-Angel Martinez; 2024 (f). Early activities on the use of synthetic FCI and MSG data on airmass RGB tuning. 3T (Train The Trainers) online forum, 2024-09-24. Oral presentation. Available copy of presentation on AEMET owncloud link

Miguel-Angel Martinez; 2024 (e). Early MTG-I1/FCI VIS0.9 feedback. Using provisional real FCI data from preoperational distribution. Difference with mean of previous hour structures.
3T (Train The Trainers) online forum, 2024-08-27. Oral presentation. Available copy of presentations on AEMET owncloud Link1 and link2

Miguel-Angel Martinez; 2024 (d). Early studies on the use of the 0.9 micron channel for moisture detection in nowcasting. NWCSAF approaches. EUMETSAT-ESSL Expert Workshop on experimental FCI low-level moisture products, online, 2024-05-22 to 2024-05-23.  Available copy of presentation on AEMET owncloud link

Miguel-Angel Martinez; 2024 (c). IRS and FCI synthetic data generation with ECMWF 4km Destination Earth model. IRS Mission Advisory Group (IRS-MAG), Darmstadt and online, 2024-04-09 to 2024-04-10.  Link to pdf in EUMETSAT web and to pptx in AEMET's owncloud.

Miguel-Angel Martinez; 2024 (b). Using interactive transmissivity coefficients and weighting functions calculated with RTTOV. Example on stationary pinkish feature on FCI cloud type RGB over central German mountains on 2024-01-09 case study.  3T (Train The Trainers) online forum 2024-03-26. Oral presentation. Available copy of presentation on AEMET owncloud  link

Miguel-Angel Martinez; 2024 (a). Dry atmosphere band causes stationary pinkish feature on FCI cloud type RGB over central German mountains on 2024-01-09 case study. Presentation shared by email to 3T (Train The Trainers) email list 2024-01-22. Available copy of presentation on AEMET owncloud link.


Martinez M. A.; 2023 (e). Early MTG-I1/FCI VIS0.9 feedback. Updated version of first TPW estimation using VIS0.8 and VIS0.8 using 2023-06-27 case on Sahel. 3T (Train The Trainers) online forum 2023-10-31. Oral presentation. Available copy of presentation on AEMET owncloud link.

Martinez M. A.; 2023 (d). Early MTG-I1/FCI VIS0.9 feedback. First TPW estimation using VIS0.8 and VIS0.8 using 2023-08-01 case on Sahel. Convection Working Group online session 2023-10-25. Available copy of presentation on AEMET owncloud link.

Martinez M. A.; 2023 (c). Early MTG-I1/FCI NIR1.3 feedback. Sent by email to EUMETSAT. Available copy of presentation on AEMET owncloud link.

Martinez M. A.; 2023 (b). Early MTG-I1/FCI VIS0.9 feedback. Sent by email to EUMETSAT. Available copy of presentation on AEMET owncloud link.

Martinez M. A.; 2023 (a). NWC-SAF update: Update on MTG era preparation. IRS Mission Advisory Group (IRS-MAG) 2023-05-09.  Link to pdf in EUMETSAT web and to pptx in AEMET's owncloud.


Martinez M. A.; 2022 (g). Synthetic MODIS as proxy of FCI for estimation of TPW from VIS0.9 FCI channel.  3T (Train The Trainers) online forum 2022-12-09.  Link to pptx in AEMET's owncloud.

Martinez M. A.; 2022 (f). Synthetic MODIS as proxy of FCI for estimation of TPW from VIS0.9 .   IRS Mission Advisory group (IRS-MAG) November 2018 in Brussels, Belgium.  2022-12-09.  Link to pptx in AEMET's owncloud.

Martinez M. A.; 2022 (e). Update on MTG era preparation. Summary of CDOP-3 phase (March 2017 to February 2022) activities and initial activities and planning of CDOP-4 phase (March 2022 to February 2027). CWG and MTG 3T Forum in Budapest  2022-05-16 to 2022-05-20.  Link to pptx in  training tools EUMETSAT site. .

Martinez M. A.; 2022 (d). Preparation of MTG era: Summary of CDOP-3 activities and initial planning of CDOP-4. Kick-Off CDOP-4 meeting Valencia (Spain) 2022-04-04 to 2022-04-08.  Presentation online link to pptx in AEMET's owncloud.

Martinez M. A.; 2022 (c). Summary of activities of NWC SAF clear air team for preparation of MTG-S/IRS L2 from EUMETSAT in CDOP-3. Scientific Report 2022-03-11.  Link to pdf in NWCSAF's Help-Desk.

Martinez M. A.; 2022 (b). Summary of activities of NWC SAF clear air team for preparation of MTG-I/FCI in CDOP-3. Scientific Report 2022-01-31.  Link to pdf in NWCSAF's Help-Desk.

Martinez M. A.; 2022 (a). Summary of activities of NWC SAF clear air team for preparation of MTG-S/IRS L1 in CDOP-3. Scientific Report 2022-01-31. Link to pdf in NWCSAF's Help-Desk.


Martinez M. A.; 2021 (f). Preparation of MTG era: developing of imager and sounder nowcasting tools using
the first scientifically realistic synthetic MTG-I/FCI and MTG-S/IRS data generated with RTTOV-13.0. 2021 EUMETSAT Conference online 2021-09-20 to 2021-09-24.  Link to pptx in AEMET's owncloud.

Martinez M. A.; 2021 (e). Preparation of MTG era: developing of nowcasting tools for GEO imagers and sounders. ITSC-23 (International TOVS Working Group) 2021 online 2021-06-24.  Link to pdf in ITSC-23 web page.

Martinez M. A.; 2021 (d). Status of simulation of MTG-S/IRS data. IRS MAG 2021 online 2021-06-08.  Link to pptx in AEMET's owncloud.

Martinez M. A.; 2021 (c). Preparation of MTG era: developing of imager and sounder nowcasting tools. 2021 Workshop Convection Working Group online 2021-04-06 to 2021-04-08.  Link to pptx in training tools EUMETSAT site.  

Martinez M. A.; 2021 (b). Preparation of MTG era: first scientifically realistic synthetic MTG-I/FCI and MTG-S/IRS data generated with RTTOV-13.0. MTG 3T Workshop online 2021-03-08 to 2021-03-11.  Link to pptx in NWCSAF web page. Inlude also links to case studies web page and loops in NWC SAF web page.

Martinez M. A.; 2021 (a). Preparation of MTG era: status of MTG-I/FCI and MTG-S/IRS data generation. Updated with RTTOV-13.0. AEMET internal meeting 2021-02-02.  Link to pptx in NWCSAF web page. Inlude also links to case studies web page and loops in NWC SAF web page.

Martinez M. A.; 2020 (c). NWC SAF iSHAI: Instability and precipitable water products. ESSL Testbed 2020.  Link to pptx in NWCSAF web page. Inlude also links to case studies web page and loops in NWC SAF web page.

Martinez M. A.; 2020 (b). Preparation of MTG era: status of proxy IRS data generation. IRS MAG Jun 2020.  Link to pptx in NWCSAF web page. Inlude also links to case studies web page and loops in NWC SAF web page.

Martinez M. A.; 2020 (a). Preparation of MTG era: developing of imager and sounder nowcasting products and services for pre-convection phase. NWCSAF Users' Workshop 2020.  Link to pptx in NWCSAF web page. Inlude also links to case studies web page and loops in NWC SAF web page.

Martinez M. A.; Calbet X, 2019. iSHAI and PGE00: key tools for preconvective monitoring and for the preparation of the MTG era. EUMETRAIN Convection Event Week 2019.  Link to pptx in NWCSAF web page. Link to recording and PDF in EUMETRAIN web page with HAnis loops in NWC SAF web page.

Martinez M A.; 2018. Action.M5.A14 - NWC-SAF services and products for MTG-IRS. IRS Mission Advisory group (IRS-MAG) November 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. Link to PDF in EUMETSAT web page with HAnis loops in NWC SAF web page.

Martinez M. A.; Calbet X, 2018. iSHAI and PGE00 as key tools in pre-convection. 2018 Convection Working Group Workshop in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Link to pptx in CWG web page. Link to PDF in CWG web page with HAnis loops in NWC SAF web page.

Martinez M.A.,; Calbet X, 2016a. Instability indices and water content in clear air NWCSAF product. 2016 Convection Working Group Workshop in Florence, Italy.

Martinez M.A.,; Calbet X, 2016b. NWCSAF/GEO clear air product version 2016. Evolution to the MTG era. Proc. The 2016 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Data User's Conference, Darmstadt, Germany. (S2_Martinez_Miguel.pdf) in zip with oral proceedings in Nowcasting Session. Zip

Martinez 2015. Presentation in the 2015 NWC SAF Workshop of the former PGE13 SPhR. See the loops and several examples of the use of vertical cross sections for nowcasting for case studies 12th August 2011 and 20th June 2013. Also the ideas for generalization to other GEO satellites and the extension to MTG-IRS applications in nowcasting are shown.

Martinez M.A.,2013. Improvements in version 2013 of the NWCSAF/MSG PGE13 SEVIRI physical retrieval (SPhR) product. Proc. The 2013 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Data User's Conference, Vienna, Austria.

Martinez M.A.; Li, J.; Romero, R.,2010a. NWCSAF/MSG PGE13 Physical Retrieval product version 2010. Proc. The 2010 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Data User's Conference, Córdoba,Spain.

Martinez 2010b. Presentation in the 2010 NWC SAF Workshop of the former PGE13 SPhR. See the loops for nowcasting for case study 24th May 2009, 4th October 2009 and 23rd June 2008. It was the first time that interactive 3D examples with IDV were shown.

Martinez M.A.; Li, J.; et al. (2009). First operational results of the NWCSAF/MSG PGE13 SEVIRI Physical Retrieval algorithm. Proc. The 2009 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Data User's Conference, Bath, United Kingdom.

Martínez M.A.; Li, J.; et al. (2008). Physical retrieval algorithm development for operational SEVIRI clear sky nowcasting products. Proc. The 2008 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Data User's Conference, Darmstadt, Germany.

Other references

Li, J, et Al., 2010. NOAA-NESDIS ATBD for ABI Legacy Atmospheric Moisture Profile / Legacy Atmospheric Temperature Profile / Total Precipitable Water / and Derived Atmospheric Stability Indices.

Li, J, et al., 2010. NOAA-NESDIS ATBD for ABI Ozone Detection.


Seemann, S.W., E. E. Borbas, R. O. Knuteson, G. R. Stephenson, H.-L. Huang, 2008: Development of a Global Infrared Land Surface Emissivity Database for Application to Clear Sky Sounding Retrievals from Multi-spectral Satellite Radiance Measurements. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 47, 108 - 123.


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