(H-SAF) PROJECT PLAN - Version 2

H-SAF Project Plan 2.0, October 2007 - Update PP-2.2, 10 April 2008 - Chapter 3 (The coordination task) Page 40
• the invoices are collected by the Host Institute from the H-SAF Operating Unit employing the
Visiting Scientist;
• the collected invoices are delivered to Austria after:
- endorsement by the responsible Cluster leader;
- endorsement by the Project Scientist.
WP-1140: Planning and Editing
This is a supporting task for the implementation and updating of basic programmatic/scientific
documents such as (see Tables 8 or 9) (each document to imply several issues for different Reviews):
• the Project Plan (PP);
• the User requirements Document (URD)
• the Algorithm Theoretical Definition Document (ATDD)
• the series of Reports (REP) on specific items, and Workshop proceedings
• the User Manual (UM) and the Final Report (FR).
These documents, especially the URD, come upstream of the engineering documentation, produced
under WP-1330. The Planning Officer, on the base of the Development Proposal [Ref. 2] and previous
discussions and negotiations [Ref. 1], submits draft documents or document frames to the H-SAF
Participants, collects the contributions and performs editing of the documents to be delivered to the
Review meetings. For those documents, he coordinates, appealing to authors of the contributions if
necessary, the management of the Review Item Discrepancy (RID) associated to Review meetings.
The Planning Officer has special responsibility for:
• inputting and maintaining updated the information on the evolution of the space programmes,
bridging with the WMO Space Programme and the Coordination Group for Meteorological
Satellites (CGMS);
• keep record on international progress in the use of satellites for H-SAF purposes, particularly as
concerns ultimate performances potentially achievable by current and future satellites and
instruments.
The Planning Officer supports the Project Manager and the Project Scientist in their function of project
control under both the viewpoints of Project Plan implementation and consistency of the achieved data
quality with User Requirements. He supports the Steering Group by focusing, at each meeting, on the
short-term activity to follow according to the Project Plan.
3.3 The data service (WP-1200)
The purpose of WP-1200 is to ensure that the products from H-SAF reach the users, both operational
and scientific, both in real- or near-real time, and from the archive. Fig. 7, a section of Fig. 3, indicates
the area addressed by WP-1200.
The data generated by the production centres (in Italy, Austria, ECMWF, Finland and Turkey) are
addressed:
• in real-time directly from the production centres to connected centres. It is noted that the links with
operational end-users are generally existing in the framework of the operational GTS (Global
Telecommunication System), either as regional branches or in front of bilateral agreements between
National Meteorological Centres (NMC’s). The links between the NMC’s and the corresponding
national units for Civil Protection and operational Hydrology are considered a matter internal to the
Countries;
• in near-real time, through CNMCA, to EUMETSAT for distribution by EUMETCast. It is noted
that the EUMETCast system, though suitable for open distribution, enables selective addressing.
This will be useful for restricted distribution of experimental products not yet sufficiently validated;
• invariably to the Central archive operated in Italy by CNMCA; this will be accessible by the
scientific community through the EUMETSAT U-MARF via a Client.