The CEMS MDCC team integrated the meteorological station data from the Flanders Environment Agency (VMM) into the operational processing routines. VMM provides precipitation, temperature, dewpoint temperature, evaporation, relative air humidity, as well as wind speed and direction data on a 15-minute basis. Data of 63 active meteorological stations are loaded into the CEMS MDCC database in the daily routine. The data are processed and included into the gridded precipitation, temperature, solar radiation and wind speed fields produced every day in the early morning as input for the EFAS forecasts as well as for EFFIS.

CEMS MDCC would like to thank VMM very much for providing their data through the open data portal and for providing help to resolve questions from their data users.