Guidelines on Best Practices for Achieving User Readiness for New Meteorological Satellites

The current publication presents, in an integrated manner, best practices for user-readiness projects performed by user organizations (for example, NMHSs) as well as for satellite development programmes in support of user readiness. Definitions of and a timeline for deliverables are presented that should be made available by the satellite development programmes to user-readiness projects. The best practices documented here therefore apply to both user organizations (section 3) and satellite operators (section 5). The primary audiences for this publication are Members of the Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS) and WMO, but the broader user community can equally benefit from the information.