Monitoring snow with satellite and model data
Competency Framework
WMO Satellite Skills
Application
Description
Presentation during the event week on Snow in January 2010.
Content
Niilo Siljamo (FMI, Finland) will introduce the snow cover product (SC) based on MSG/SEVIRI. He will describe the main parts of the algorithm with attention to various cases of snow cover.
In the second part, Nuno Moreira (IM, Portugal) will talk about snow products derived from MSG during the unusual snow events that have occurred in Portugal between November 2008 and February 2009.