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Offline products version 1.1 released since August 2019
DATE:   2020-11-20 13:53
TYPE:   DATA
Description
Dear ROM SAF Data User

Issued : 2020-11-20 13:53 UTC

The ROM SAF is pleased to announce that the Offline products based on
Metop data (including data from Metop-C) are now available covering
the period from January 2017 and are regularly updated every month.

Offline products (version 1.1) starting with the month of August 2019
is using ECMWF ERA5 as background field for the 1D-Var products
(temperature, humidity, pressure). Offline products (version 1.0)
for the period ending with the month of July 2019 has used ECMWF
ERA-Interim as background field.

The ROM SAF Offline products are based on the following data:

| Mission | Time period | Input from | Background | Version |
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| Metop-A,B | Jan 2017 - Jul 2019 | EUMETSAT | ERA-Interim | 1.0 |
| Metop-A,B,C | since Aug 2019 | EUMETSAT | ERA5 | 1.1 |


For more information see the Validation Reports for Offline version 1.1:
https://www.romsaf.org/product_documents.php

The ROM SAF product archive contains the resulting Level 1B, 2A, 2B and
2C data (atmospheric profiles), and Level 3 data (gridded monthly means)
formatted as netCDF files, with a subset of the atmospheric profiles
formatted as BUFR. The definition of processing levels are as follows:

Level 1A: excess phases, amplitudes, satellite orbital data (input)
Level 1B: bending angle
Level 2A: refractivity, dry temperature
Level 2B: temperature, humidity, pressure
Level 2C: surface pressure, tropopause height
Level 3: gridded monthly means of all geophysical variables

Documentation (including algorithm descriptions, product user manuals
and validation reports) and access to the products are available at
the Product Archive: http://www.romsaf.org/product_archive.php


Kind regards
The ROM SAF Team

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