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December 17, 2010

EUMETSAT supports South Africa Weather Service training centre

The WMO/Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites, Virtual Laboratory Centre of Excellence in Satellite Training at the South African Weather Service (SAWS) in Pretoria is now offering training courses to meteorologists in Africa so that they can make the best use of the coverage of EUMETSAT meteorological satellites.

December 8, 2010

EUMETSAT and Africa

The 3rd EU-Africa summit, held on 29-30 November 2010 in Tripoli, Libya, adopted the Second Action Plan (2011-2013), paving the way for the second phase of the ongoing African Monitoring of the Environment for Sustainable Development (AMESD) project, which involves EUMETSAT.

September 8, 2010

EUMeTrain presents Warning Week training sessions

From 4 to 7 October 2010 the EUMETSAT-sponsored training project EUMeTrain will host an event week on weather warnings.

July 29, 2010

Oman provides quick access to Metop data

EUMETSAT’s cooperation with Oman has resulted in the sultanate providing fast access to Metop-A data from a region important to European forecasting.

July 21, 2010

Changes to the EUMETSAT website structure

You may have noticed several changes on the EUMETSAT website. All site content located in the former What We Do, Access to Data and Documentation sections has been redistributed across four new sections.

June 30, 2010

EUMETSAT celebrates five years in orbit of Microwave Humidity Sounder

EUMETSAT’s Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) has now been in orbit for five years. The instrument, which measures atmospheric water vapour, is on board three polar-orbiting satellites: NOAA-18, launched on 20 May 2005, EUMETSAT’s Metop-A, launched on 19 October 2006, and NOAA-19, launched on 6 February 2009.

June 29, 2010

Gulf of Mexico oil spill visible with the Metop-A Advanced SCATterometer (ASCAT)

The ASCAT instrument on the METOP-A polar satellite observes the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

June 24, 2010

EUMETSAT cooperation with Japanese Meteorological Agency

EUMETSAT has implemented Meteosat-7 data reception to JMA via the Regional Meteorological Data Communication Network (RMDCN).

May 7, 2010

New ash plume from Eyjafjallajökull (updated 10/05/2010)

Another large ash cloud was injected into the atmosphere from Eyjafjallajökull volcano.

May 6, 2010

Monitoring SO2 emitted by volcanoes

During a volcanic eruption large amounts of ash and trace gases, especially sulphur dioxide (SO2), are injected into the troposphere or even the stratosphere in unusually high concentrations. Observing such SO2 concentrations in the atmosphere can be a powerful - but also limited - tool for tracking the spread of volcanic ash.

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