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December 7, 2007

EUMETSAT 63rd Council meets in Darmstadt, Germany

EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, held its 63rd Council meeting in Darmstadt, Germany, on 6-7 December.

November 6, 2007

EUMETSAT and ESA sign MSG launch and early orbit phase service contract

The Director-General of EUMETSAT, Dr. Lars Prahm, and the Director of Operations and Infrastructure of the European Space Agency (ESA), Gaele Winters, today are signing the contract for the Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) service for the last two Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellites, MSG-3 and MSG-4, to be provided by ESA’s European Satellite Operations Centre (ESOC).

October 18, 2007

EUMETSAT and Canada strengthen cooperation in weather,climate and environmental monitoring from space

EUMETSAT and Canada today initialled a memorandum of understanding to advance cooperation in satellite monitoring activities. Under the agreement, which will come into effect in 2008, Europe and Canada will work together to improve weather, climate and environmental monitoring through the observation of atmosphere and oceans.

October 5, 2007

Metop-A satellite measures ozone hole

Scientists at the Deutsche Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), the German Aerospace Center, continue the long-term monitoring of the evolution of the ozone hole by analysing data from the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment 2 (GOME-2) instrument on board EUMETSAT’s Metop-A polar operating satellite, Europe’s new meteorological satellite.

September 24, 2007

Meteorological Satellite Conference in Amsterdam Press conference

A press conference will be held today highlighting the success of Metop-A, Europe’s first operational meteorological polar-orbiting satellite.

September 4, 2007

Meteorological Satellite Conference in Amsterdam on Weather, Climate, Oceans and the Environment

From 24-28 September 2007, meteorological experts, scientists and researchers will meet for the joint 2007 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference and the 15th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Satellite Meteorology & Oceanography Conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

August 31, 2007

EUMETSAT intensifies cooperation with China Meteorological Administration

EUMETSAT’s bilateral relationship with the China Meterological Administration (CMA) is becoming closer with the planned start of the operational exchange of meteorological data on a trial basis starting in early September.

July 5, 2007

Jason- 2 ocean altimetry programme

EUMETSAT monitoring the ocean for weather, climate and oceanography

June 22, 2007

Land Satellite Application Facility (SAF) in support of drought monitoring - EUMETSAT’s Contribution to the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

Desertification is not the natural expansion of existing deserts but the degradation of land in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas due to human activities and climatic variations.

June 20, 2007

EUMETSAT 62nd Council Meeting to be held in Cork City, Ireland

EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, will hold its 62nd Council Meeting at the kind invitation of Declan Murphy, Chairman of the EUMETSAT Council and Director of the National Meteorological Institute, Met Eireann, in Cork City, Ireland, 26 - 27 June 2007.

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