Monitoring weather and climate from space

Metop
EUMETSAT Polar System

The EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) is Europe’s first polar orbiting operational meteorological satellite system, and it is the European contribution to the Initial Joint Polar-Orbiting Operational Satellite System (IJPS).

Metop
Mission Overview
Europe's first polar-orbiting satellite dedicated to operational meteorology. It represents the European contribution to a new co-operative venture with the United States, providing data to monitor climate and improve weather forecasting.
Instruments
The Metop satellites carry on board a set of state-of-the-art sounding and imaging instruments, that offer improved remote sensing capabilities to both meteorologists and climatologists and improved atmospheric soundings; as well as measuring atmospheric ozone and near-surface wind vectors over the ocean.
Services
Metop has brought about a new era in the way the Earth's weather, climate and environment are observed. It significantly improves operational meteorology, in particular Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP). The new instruments augment the accuracy of temperature humidity measurements; readings of wind speed and direction, and atmospheric ozone profiles.
Resources
A collection of technical and scientific documentation relating to the EUMETSAT Polar System.

Corporate News

September 8, 2011

EPS day

As the 2012 launch of the Metop-B polar-orbiting satellite approaches, EUMETSAT organised a EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) day at its headquarters on 7 September.
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Related Info

[Download link]EUMETSAT/ESA Scatterometer Science Conference - Darmstadt, Germany April 11-13, 2011

Presentations and detailed information on the EUMETSAT/ESA Scatterometer Science Conference.

[Internal link]Metop-A monitors marine life

EUMETSAT’s Metop-A polar-orbiting satellite has helped transmit data from thousands of animals, oceanographic buoys, weather stations, and other platforms around the world with its on-board Argos-3 instrument.

[External link]2nd IASI International Conference - Annecy, France January 25-29, 2010

Presentations and executive summaries from the 2nd IASI International Conference.

[External link]Presentations from the 2nd EPS/Metop RAO Workshop

Presented at the 2nd EPS/Metop RAO Workshop in Barcelona, 20-22 May 2009 (WinZip, 150 MB).

[Internal link]An Introduction to the EUMETSAT Polar System

An interactive webcast produced by the COMET® program in collaboration with EUMETSAT

Related Links

[link]Metop-A Launch

[link]MetOp Animations (ESA)

[link]EPS/MetOp Research Announcement of Opportunity (RAO)

[link]NOAA Satellites and Information

[link]IJPS (US Component)

 
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