Copernicus Climate

EUMETSAT provides data to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), which is operated by ECMWF

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Copernicus

The Earth observation satellites contributing data to Copernicus are split into two groups of missions: the Copernicus Sentinels and the contributing missions.

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The Copernicus Programme provides users with free, full and open access to environmental data.

Top of the atmosphere view from ISS. Credit: ISS/NASA

Copernicus Atmosphere

EUMETSAT provides data to the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), which is operated by ECMWF.

Copernicus Marine

EUMETSAT provides data to the Copernicus Marine Service, which is operated by Mercator Ocean International.

Copernicus Sentinel-6

The ramifications of the effects of climate change on the Earth’s oceans are clearer this week with the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report.

The Copernicus Climate change Service (C3S) is operated by ECMWF and will provide information to increase the knowledge base needed to support adaption and mitigation policies.

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07 April 2020

In particular, it will contribute to the provision of Essential Climate Variables (ECVs), climate analyses, projections and indicators.

What is EUMETSAT's role?

EUMETSAT will contribute to the C3S service through the re-calibration and cross calibration of long series of observations from its satellites, dating back to 1981.

"The service will combine observations of the climate system with the latest science to develop authoritative, quality-assured information about past, current and future states of the climate in Europe and worldwide"

Dr. Jean-Noël Thépaut, Head of the Copernicus Climate Change Service

EUMETSAT will also maintain an inventory of ECVs generated by space agency members of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS), in cooperation with ESA.

The EUMETSAT network of Satellite Application Facilities will also deliver Climate Data Records for use in climate services.

A Unique Archive for Data Preservation

With almost 35 years of data from operational meteorological satellites and a volume of 1.4 Petabytes (PB), the EUMETSAT archives host some of the world’s longest data records collected by satellites and constitute an invaluable asset for climate monitoring and the understanding of climate change.

Copernicus Sentinel-6: Monitoring the global ocean

The Copernicus Sentinel-6A Michael Freilich ocean-monitoring satellite was launched at 18:17 (CET) on November 2020 from Vandenberg air force base, California.