Image of the week: Global weather from space

The composite image includes imagery from the geostationary satellites of EUMETSAT (Meteosat-9, -10, -11 and -12), the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the US, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) and the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). 

A full year of weather for the entire Earth can be seen here.

Meteosat

EUMETSAT’s Meteosat satellites are a key part of the global ring of geostationary weather satellites and observe the Earth over Europe, Africa and the Indian Ocean. See their current view from our Earth view stream.

Weather satellite programmes are coordinated globally through the Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS).