EUMETSAT featured on ITN and New Scientist

Tune in to ITN or New Scientist to watch the “Space: advancing the future” documentary, featuring Phil Evans, EUMETSAT Director-General and Jenny Rourke, Head of Real Time Services and System Operations:

Watch the full documentary “Space: advancing the future”. 

In an era when climate change makes harmful and destructive extreme weather events more frequent and intense, the economic and social impacts of weather forecasting are immense. The next-generation satellites operated by EUMETSAT are expected to contribute to saving lives and safeguarding economies.

In the next 5 to 10 years, Europe will take a leadership role in Earth observation from space for weather forecasting and climate monitoring, thanks to the next-generation missions operated by EUMETSAT. The new instruments on board these innovative satellites will empower our member states by providing them with higher quality and more frequent data, but also with completely new data such as lightning strikes, geostationary infrared sounding measurements and the concentration of several greenhouse gases that are currently not monitored very precisely. These data will help to improve numerical models that are central to forecasting the weather, but will also further our scientific understanding of the atmosphere.