External resources and useful links


Quick Guide to the Cloud Phase RGB: https://www.eumetrain.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/CloudPhaseRGB.pdf

Quick Guide to the new microphysical channel: https://eumetrain.org/sites/default/files/2020-05/NIR225QG.pdf

RGB Colour Guide on the EUMeTrain webpage: https://eumetrain.org/index.php/rgb-color-guide

A webcast presentation on the EUMeTrain homepage: Daniel Rosenfeld: New capabilities with high resolution cloud micro-structure facilitated by MTG 2.3 µm channel https://eumetrain.org/index.php/resources/new-capabilities-high-resolution-cloud-micro-structure-facilitated-mtg-23-um-channel

Presentation at the EUMETSAT conference (2018) in Tallinn: https://www.eumetsat.int/eumetsat-meteorological-satellite-conference-2018 (Session 3, oral presentation) Mária Putsay: Cloud top microphysical properties studied in Himawari AHI data

Presentation at a CWG workshop: Mária Putsay: New RGB for convection monitoring based on newly available channels in MTG

Case studies in the EUMETSAT Image Library:
https://www.eumetsat.int/studying-convective-situation-europe-viirs-images
https://www.eumetsat.int/contrail-shadows-over-stratus
https://www.eumetsat.int/ship-trails-industrial-plumes etc.

Case studies on the EUMeTrain webpage:
https://resources.eumetrain.org/mtg.html
https://eumetrain.org/resources/snow-spain-january-2021-viirs-cloud-phase-rgb-imagery

Presentation and scientific documents on the method of retrieval of cloud microphysics properties developed by NWCSAF: G.Kerdraon, H.Le Gléau, M-P.Raoul (Meteo France): Improvement of cloud products with MTG-I https://eumetrain.org/resources/improvement-cloud-products-mtg-i

H.Le Gléau (2019): Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document for the Cloud Product Processors of the NWC/GEO https://www.nwcsaf.org/Downloads/GEO/2018/Documents/Scientific_Docs/NWC-CDOP2-GEO-MFL-SCI-ATBD-Cloud_v2.1.pdf

G. Kerdraon, H.Le Gléau (Meteo France): "Scientific Report on improving the Cloud Product Processors of the NWC/GEO", NWC/CDOP2/GEO/MFL/SCI/RP/05 https://www.nwcsaf.org/AemetWebContents/ScientificDocumentation/Documentation/GEO/v2016/NWC-CDOP2-GEO-MFL-SCI-VR-Cloud_v1.0.pdf