News and notifications

Products SM-DAS-3 (H27) " Soil Wetness Index in the roots region by ERS/SCAT and Metop ASCAT-A scatterometer assimilation in a Land Data Assimilation System" have been released. The products are currently available in the soil moisture section of H-SAF website and are available for downloading through the H-SAF ftp server

The Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) is pleased to announce the 4th Satellite Soil Moisture Validation and Application Workshop (19-20 September 2017) and the CCI Soil Moisture User Workshop (18 September 2017), to take place at its premises in Austria. The abstract submission deadline is 1 May 2017.
For more information please see the conference website.

Products H25, H108, H109 and H110 "Surface Soil Moisture Metop ASCAT Data Record Time Series" have been released. The products are currently available in the soil moisture section of H-SAF website and are available for downloading through the H-SAF ftp server

Applications are invited for a Visiting scientist Activity to be funded by the H-SAF Consortium. For more information see Open Call-1 and Open Call-2.

Applications are invited for a Visiting scientist Activity to be funded by the H-SAF Consortium. Applications has to be completed by 10 November 2016. For more information see here

Products H101, H16, H102 and H103 "Surface Soil Moisture ASCAT A/B NRT Orbit" have been declared operational. The products are currently available in the soil moisture section of H-SAF website and are available for downloading through the H-SAF ftp server; They are also distributed via EUMETCast - see more

The dissemination of product H07 SM OBS 1 "Large scale surface soil moisture by radar scatterometer" under the status "develoment" will be definitely stopped on 22nd of July 2016. H07 has been replaced by the global version H16 - see more

The Turkish State Meteorological Service is pleased to announce the European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology (ERAD 2016) to take place on 10-14 October 2016 at Antalya, Turkey. More information concerning the conference can be found on the following website: www.erad2016.org

"Links" section has been updated with a link to the EUMETSAT User Notification Service, to have real-time information for certain products/instruments/satellites

product H15A PR-OBS-6A "Blended SEVIRI Convection area/ LEO MW Convective Precipitation" has been declared pre-operational. The product is currently available in the precipitation section of H-SAF website and is available for downloading at H-SAF ftp server; it will be distributed via EUMETCast starting from 21st October 2015. - see more