Photo Gallery --- Technical meeting on Himawari-8/9 Rapidly Developing Cumulus Area (RDCA) products (7 March 2024)

A technical meeting on Himawari-8/9 Rapidly Developing Cumulus Area (RDCA) products was held online by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) on 7 March 2024, as a follow-up to a similar event in February 2022. This was part of activities conducted under the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) 2023 - item 7 "Enhancing Utilization of Himawari-8/9 Products" of the Working Group on Meteorology (WGM) of the ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee (TC), which was endorsed at the 55th session of TC held in Macao, China from 7 to 9 March 2023. Attendees included representatives from National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, as well as the Philippines (which joined this project this year).

The project aims to enhance NMHSs' utilization of observation data from the Himawari-8/9 geostationary meteorological satellites by developing RDCA detection techniques based on such data. Discussions at the meeting covered recent activities/challenges relating to RDCA development and future work in the field.