Now that we have learnt how to run NWCSAF-GEO with test data and learnt to modify the configuration, we need to consider how to run it in an operational setting.

When the NWCSAF-GEO task manager is running it will monitor the import directories for the arrival of new data files (both satellite and NWP) and will execute the remapping code and the desired PGEs when data becomes available. We saw this behaviour in our previous tests when we moved satellite data into the import/Sat_data directory.

For the next part of the tutorial we will be setting up scripts to both replicate the arrival of data but also to manage the preprocessing of data and postprocessing of files generated by NWCSAF. Please read/work through this entire section before attempting to run NWCSAF-GEO on the test data provided.