Date (Creation)

2025-10-08

Citation identifier

RMI-be / inca

Status

On going

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium		info@meteo.be	Point of contact
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium		info@meteo.be	Owner

Maintenance and update frequency

Continual

User defined maintenance frequency

P0Y0M0DT0H10M0S

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Atmospheric conditions

Keywords

• federal government

• forecast

• nowcasting

• temperature

• wind

• precipitation

• rain

• snow

• dewpoint temperature

• cloud cover

• relative humidity

• specific humidity

• visibility

• wind chill

Spatial scope

• National

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

No limitations on public access

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

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Classification

Unclassified

Spatial representation type

Grid

Distance

1000  m

Language

English

Topic category

• Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date

2011-09-30T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:4258

Distribution format

Name	Version
GRIB	2

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

INCA (Integrated Nowcasting through Comprehensive Analysis) is a nowcasting system for the analysis and nowcasts of several meteorological fields, like temperature, humidity, wind, precipitation and cloudiness, and some derived fields like precipitation type, wind chill, height of the freezing level and visibility. For the calculation of these fields, INCA ingests a wide range of observational and model data: radar composites, data from automatic weather stations, satellite data and NWP output. The nowcasts of the fields gradually converge towards the NWP forecast for longer lead times. INCA has been developed at the national meteorological service of Austria (ZAMG); INCA-BE is the implementation of this system for Belgium. Since the start of its implementation in 2010, the system has been heavily modified and improved, including: a nowcast of the lightning activity based on the BELLS network, the addition of an uncertainty plume to the precipitation forecast, and the addition of hail as a supplementary precipitation type in the precipitation type forecast. Apart from these system extensions, a complete new module was added to the system as well: the nowcast of 10m wind gusts.

Metadata

File identifier

RMI_DATASET_INCA XML

Metadata language

English

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2025-10-08

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium		info@meteo.be	Point of contact

Other language

Language	Character encoding
French	UTF8
Dutch; Flemish	UTF8
German	UTF8