1. Sauli Joro NWC SAF 2010 Users’ Workshop 26-28 April 2010, Madrid, Spain Sauli Joro, EUMETSAT NWC SAF 2010 Users’ Workshop 26-28 April 2010, Madrid, Spain AVAC-S ― A tool for validating aerosols and cloud properties from SEVIRI Slide: 1

2. Sauli Joro NWC SAF 2010 Users’ Workshop 26-28 April 2010, Madrid, Spain AVAC–S A-Train Validation of Aerosol and Cloud properties from SEVIRI A EUMETSAT Meteorological Division project to procure a software to validate Optimal Cloud Analysis (OCA) product Slide: 2 Programmed in IDL, using Object Oriented Programming (OOP) A-train validation data includes: CPR, CALIOP, AMSR-E, MODIS (+ECMWF profiles) Upcoming version of AVAC–S has a common data ingestion routine ― any product in SEVIRI grid can be imported to AVAC–S,

3. Sauli Joro NWC SAF 2010 Users’ Workshop 26-28 April 2010, Madrid, Spain Validation and analysis data Slide: 3 ECMWF European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Temperature profile Ozone profile Water vapor profile Pressure profile Auxiliary information CALIOP Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarisation Lidar Reflectivity at 532 nm Lidar Reflectivity at 1064 nm Cloud Top Altitude Cloud Base Altitude Cloud Phase AMSR-E Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer Water Vapour Path Cloud Liquid Water Path Sea Surface Temperature Near Surface Wind Speed MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Cloud Mask Cloud Top Pressure Cloud Top Temperature Cloud Particle Phase Cloud Fraction Cloud Optical Thickness Cloud Particle Size Cloud Water Path CPR Cloud Profiling Radar Cloud Height Radar Reflectivity Cloud Scenario

4. Sauli Joro NWC SAF 2010 Users’ Workshop 26-28 April 2010, Madrid, Spain Core functionality Maps product data together with selected A-Train data on a common grid Data identification based on CloudSat orbit numbers Combined data sets, “Level-B data files”, stored as HDF5-files Offers a quicklook - tool to explore the created Level-B data set atrain_startup o = obj_new(‘atrain’) o -> set_overpass, 20156 o -> quicklook Slide: 4 print, o -> info_sevirislots()

5. Sauli Joro NWC SAF 2010 Users’ Workshop 26-28 April 2010, Madrid, Spain http://www.cloudsat.cira.colostate.edu/index.php Slide: 5

6. Sauli Joro NWC SAF 2010 Users’ Workshop 26-28 April 2010, Madrid, Spain CloudSat orbit 21147 Slide: 6

7. Sauli Joro NWC SAF 2010 Users’ Workshop 26-28 April 2010, Madrid, Spain Parallax schemes -,, CALIOP, CPR Slide: 7

8. Sauli Joro NWC SAF 2010 Users’ Workshop 26-28 April 2010, Madrid, Spain Analysis of a single Level-B file Slide: 8 OCA ice OCA water OCA quality control

9. Sauli Joro NWC SAF 2010 Users’ Workshop 26-28 April 2010, Madrid, Spain Analysis of a single Level-B file Slide: 9 CPR MODIS OCA ice OCA water

10. Sauli Joro NWC SAF 2010 Users’ Workshop 26-28 April 2010, Madrid, Spain Analysis of a merged Level-B file Slide: 10

11. Sauli Joro NWC SAF 2010 Users’ Workshop 26-28 April 2010, Madrid, Spain Getting the AVAC–S software ops@eumetsat.int Access to  software repository  test data  documentation (e.g., a comprehensive user manual)  anomaly/bug tracking system The software package comes “as is”, no official support is provided. Slide: 11