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07 April 2020
The service, which is operated by Mercator Ocean International, provides regular information on the physical state, variability and dynamics of the ocean and marine ecosystems for the global ocean and the European regional seas.
The products and forecasts it delivers support four main application areas, marine resources, marine safety, coastal and marine environment and weather, climate and seasonal forecasting.
What is EUMETSAT's role?
EUMETSAT delivers a range of ocean products to CMS and its user community. This includes data and products from EUMETSAT's Metop and Meteosat satellite series, and from missions of EUMETSAT’s international partners.
After the successful launches of Sentinel-3A (16 February 2016) and Sentinel-3B (on 25 April 2015), EUMETSAT’s role is to operate the satellites, in cooperation with ESA, and deliver the marine data (ocean colour, sea surface temperature and sea surface topography) on behalf of the EU.
"For oceanography, Sentinel-3 is perhaps the most beautiful satellite ever built"
Remote Sensing Scientist, EUMETSAT
EUMETSAT is also delivering data to Copernicus from the Sentinel-6 and Jason-3 ocean altimetry satellites. EUMETSAT operates and delivers data from Copernicus Sentinel-6, which is co-funded by the European Commission, ESA, EUMETSAT and the USA, through NASA and NOAA.
Jason-3 is the fourth in the series of US/European ocean altimetry satellites that together have built up a time series of global mean sea level that dates back to 1992.
