Until February 29, 2012, the official name of the ROM SAF was GRAS SAF. The new name reflects the fact that the products and services are not limited to RO data from the GRAS instrument.

The Radio Occultation Meteorology SAF is a decentralized centre under EUMETSAT, that runs an operational radio occultation system responsible for delivering bending angle, refractivity, temperature, pressure, and humidity profiles in near-real time and offline for NWP and climate users. The offline profiles are further processed into climate products consisting of gridded monthly means of bending angle, refractivity, temperature, humidity, and geopotential heights.

The ROM SAF also maintains the ROPP (Radio Occultation Processing Package) software package for users wishing to process, quality-control, and assimilate radio occultation data from any radio occultation mission into NWP and other models.

The ROM SAF Leading Entity is the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), with Cooperating Entities ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) in Reading, United Kingdom, IEEC (Institut D'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya) in Barcelona, Spain, and Met Office in Exeter, United Kingdom. Read more here.

PRODUCT STATUS
NRT Products:
 GRM-01 N  GRM-02 T  GRM-03 Q
 GRM-04 P  GRM-05 SP
Offline Products:
 GRM-08 BA  GRM-09 N  GRM-10 T
 GRM-11 Q  GRM-12 P  GRM-13 SP
Software Products:
 GRM-16 ROPP
Climate Products:
 GRM-17 BA  GRM-18 N  GRM-19 T
 GRM-20 Q  GRM-21 GPH
Colour Codes:
  Operational/Released   Pre-operational   Demonstration
  Development   Stopped


ROM SAF Product Archive
For access to the data products, please use the Product Archive

NRT Monitoring of RO Data
Monitoring of quality and data flow (MetOp/GRAS, COSMIC, GRACE-A, TerraSAR-X, SAC-C, C/NOFS)
ECMWF statistics (MetOp/GRAS, COSMIC, GRACE-A, TerraSAR-X, SAC-C, C/NOFS)
NEWS

GRAS SAF becomes
ROM SAF

From March 1, 2012, the GRAS SAF has a new name: ROM SAF. Read more here.
[March 1, 2012]

Software Release
The GRAS SAF is pleased to announce the sixth full release for the software deliverable 'ROPP', Version 6.0. Read more here.
[February 27, 2012]

Software Release
The GRAS SAF is pleased to announce the fifth full release for the software deliverable 'ROPP', Version 5.0. Read more here.
[July 11, 2011]

NRT Monitoring of SAC-C and C/NOFS Data
The GRAS SAF is pleased to announce the inclusion of SAC-C and C/NOFS data at our NRT monitoring page. Read more here.
[May 30, 2011]

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