Temporal and Spatial coverage

The products are available over two geographical areas with two different temporal coverages:

Atlantic Africa area: 100W to 50E, 47N to 25S
regular longitude-latitude mesh: 0.5x0.5deg
Time period: 2005, 2006, 2007 to be stored

West Africa area: 25W to 25E, 25N to 5S
regular longitude-latitude mesh: 0.25x0.25deg
Time period: May to September 2006

Temporal resolution

    4 times daily (4xdaily) products:

    Analysis

    Times : 0 6 12 18 h
    step : 0 h

    Forecasting

    Times : 12 h
    Steps :12, 18, 24, 30, 36 h

For the forecast variables, there are 5 forecast times per day : 0, 6, 12, 18 and 24h corresponding to the 5 forecasting steps (12, 18, 24, 30, 36h) starting at the reference time 12h of the day before.