EUMETSAT Council approves next five year phase of the CM SAF

Source: Eumetsat

“At the end of the 86th EUMETSAT Council session early December 2016, the EUMETSAT Director-General signed the CM SAF cooperation agreement with the President of the Deutscher Wetterdienst as leading entity of the SAF on Climate Monitoring for the Third Continuous Development and Operations Phase (CDOP-3). The CDOP-3 covers the period 2017-2022 and will further extend the CM SAFs portfolio of operational products and develop new products.

New Partner of the CM SAF for CDOP-3 is France (CNRS/LEGOS) who will lead the activities to derive global precipitation climatological data records.”

MW / Dec2016