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Eye of the Tiger

CGMS celebrates five decades of collaborative initiatives.

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50 remarkable years of cooperation

Impactful cooperation initiatives under the framework of the Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites.

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Meteosat Third Generation: Cutting-edge weather data

Dr Tony McNally anticipates the benefits of EUMETSAT’s next-generation satellites.

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New satellite ground station in Switzerland inaugurated today

Head of MeteoSwiss Regional Centre South talks about new satellite ground station.

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Sentinel-6 reveals clues about the climate hidden in the ocean

How an ocean prediction centre uses Sentinel-6 data to monitor ocean and climate change.

View of the ocean surface with a ship on the horizon

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Jupyter Notebook competition

A new competition to develop new Jupyter notebooks to help people work with Copernicus data starts today and runs until 4 September 2022.

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Climate change in European context

How EUMETSAT data contributes to the Copernicus European State of the Climate report

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Meteosat Third Generation: The eyes on a storm

Météo-France’s Sylvain Le Moal on preparations for Meteosat Third Generation.

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Talking point: The Arctic sea ice maximum – feeling the heat

Arctic Ocean sea ice reached its annual maximal extent on 7 March 2022. Dr Rasmus Tonboe helps us make sense of some of the talking points.

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The wind watchman

Bringing data together for better wind observations and weather forecasts.

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Inside EUMETSAT: meet Niklas and Gesa

Inside EUMETSAT interviews Niklas Sinander and Gesa Büttner.

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Inside EUMETSAT: meet Peter and Mari

Inside EUMETSAT interviews Peter Albert and Mari Bravo Rodriguez.

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EUMETSAT fellow wins Weather4cast 2021 Challenge

Jussi Leinonen developed the competition’s top algorithm for predicting short-term weather.

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Rescuing and restoring satellite data to respond to the climate crisis

EUMETSAT’s Jörg Schulz reflects on the importance of restoring data from past satellite missions

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How did the first coronavirus lockdown affect air and ocean pollution?

EUMETSAT expert explains the effects of the lockdown on air and ocean pollution

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How satellite data are used in Romania

How satellite data are used in Romania to deliver essential services.

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Inside EUMETSAT: meet Sean and Carmen

Inside EUMETSAT interviews Sean Burns and Carmen Ricote Navarro.

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Data in Action: Innovative platform to access complex marine data

The Marine Analyst makes it easy to access a vast amount of marine environmental data.

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In West Africa, monitoring droughts with satellites saves lives

AGRHYMET uses satellite data to forecast the rainy season.

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Inside EUMETSAT: meet Margarita and Tim

Inside EUMETSAT interviews Margarita Vazquez and Tim Hewison.

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Forecasting extreme weather now and in the future

As Romania prepares to host the 2021 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference, we catch up with the team at the National Meteorological Administration (NMA).

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Inside EUMETSAT: meet Ruth and Valentin

Inside EUMETSAT interviews Ruth Weitzel and Valentin Costache.

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Unprecedented wildfires devastate Siberia and spread smoke over the Arctic

Experts have recorded Siberian smoke reaching the geographic North Pole for the first time.

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A new era of Satellite Application Facilities (SAFs)

Lothar Schüller, SAF Network Manager at EUMETSAT, talks about the SAF’s upcoming five-year plan.

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Inside EUMETSAT: meet Elayne and Giuseppe

Inside EUMETSAT interviews Elayne Chapman and Giuseppe Longhitano

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Inside EUMETSAT: meet Jyoti and Carmelo

Inside EUMETSAT interviews Jyoti Dagar and Carmelo Aveni Cirino

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Inside EUMETSAT: meet Mike and Julia

Inside EUMETSAT interviews Mike Williams and Julia Hunter-Anderson

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Inside EUMETSAT: meet Livio and Natasa

Inside EUMETSAT interviews Livio Mastroddi and Natasa Strelec Mahovic.

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Inside EUMETSAT: meet Ruth and Hannes

Inside EUMETSAT interviews Ruth Britton and Hannes Langeder.

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Inside EUMETSAT: meet Stefania and Paolo

Inside EUMETSAT interviews Stefania Tarquini and Paolo Ruti.

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Inside EUMETSAT: meet Gareth and Andrea

Inside EUMETSAT interviews Gareth Williams and Andrea Di Giovanni.

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Inside EUMETSAT: meet Yves and Anke

Inside EUMETSAT interviews Yves Buhler and Anke Mayer

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Inside EUMETSAT: meet Phil and Sonia

Inside EUMETSAT interviews Phil Evans and Sonia Misuri.

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Inside EUMETSAT: meet Julia and Dominika

Inside EUMETSAT interviews Julia Figa Saldana and Dominika Czyżewska.

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Ready to launch this weekend: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

The satellite is scheduled for launch on 21 November 2020.

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Branching out into the world of strategy and international relations at EUMETSAT

Rachel, an astrophysics student currently in her third year of university, interned with us over the last few months.

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Tracking desert locusts with satellite services

This year brought a locust crisis to eastern Africa, threatening food supplies in an already troubled time.

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Smoke from exceptional California wildfires reaches Europe

Satellite observations monitor the transport of emissions.

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Monitoring the ocean and fisheries using Earth observation data

In our "Day to Day" series of podcasts, we discuss how Earth observation data benefits our lives in different ways.

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Exploring data services at EUMETSAT

We talked (part remotely/part at HQ) with Joana Miguens about her interesting role, continuing our Inside EUMETSAT series.

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Keeping an eye on air turbulence from space

For many travellers, air turbulence is often a cause of much concern and in some cases, fear.

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Insight into Jasmin Vural’s life as a fellow

Delving further into our continuing series on fellowships, we talked to Jasmin Vural, who is almost done with hers.

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Vasileios Barlakas shares his experience as a fellow with us

Continuing our series on fellowships we talked to Vasileios, who is currently halfway through his.

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The role of MOSAiC in EUMETSAT OSI SAF development

We've published several posts about the MOSAiC expedition over the last six months, featuring the reports of a group of meteorology students tracking its progress.

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Interning at EUMETSAT

A new episode of our Inside EUMETSAT series – get to know us a little better by finding out what everybody does here.

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Introducing the Alfred Wegener Institute and MOSAiC Expedition

Right now, the largest polar expedition in history is taking place and a group of students from Germany want to make sure you don’t miss out on any of the Arctic action.

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Sailors drop off ocean-monitoring buoys during trans-Atlantic race

An innovative partnership between ocean scientists and sailors.

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Inspiring ocean projects developed at Copernicus hackathon weekend

From 22-24 November, 10 teams from across Europe and beyond participated in the Copernicus “OceanHack challenge” in Tallinn, Estonia.

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Mission control engineering at EUMETSAT

Elena sat down with us to explain her responsibilities as a Mission Control Engineer for our “Inside EUMETSAT” series.

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Life as a weather technician on board the Polarstern

Part three of the Polarstern diaries has landed – read on to hear all about life as an on-board weather technician in the latest blog instalment!

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Sea surface temperature – climate data record generation with SLSTR

Sea Surface Temperature data set from 1982 to 2016 now available.

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Metop operations - working as a Spacecraft Engineer at EUMETSAT

As part of our “Inside EUMETSAT” series, we sat down to have a chat with Richard Dyer!

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MOSAiC – the international Arctic drift expedition

Read the latest summary from the students tracking the expedition.

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Looking back over a year of weather

We’ve just published our annual “Year of Weather” video for 2019 and once again, many significant weather events took place across the globe.

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When an umbrella is not enough - discussing severe storms

Tomáš Púčik spent some time with us on a recent visit to EUMETSAT to discuss his passion for thunderstorms.

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Taking care of a satellite - what does it involve

Meet one of the staff members responsible for making sure the Sentinel-3 satellites run smoothly.

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Introducing Day to Day, EUMETSAT’s first podcast series!

If you’ve been looking for something different to listen to then our new podcast series might be just the thing.

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Celebrating International Women’s Day with a special Inside EUMETSAT edition!

To coincide with this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD) on 8 March, our Inside EUMETSAT episode will be a little different this time.

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Weather conditions in the Arctic

The MOSAiC expedition continues and the students following the mission’s progress have delivered blog number five.

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Discussing Iceland’s severe winter weather

Earlier this year we had the pleasure of hosting Elín Björk Jónasdóttir, meteorologist at the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO).

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Climate and climate change in the Arctic

The latest report from the students following the MOSAiC expedition discusses the Arctic climate, where the RV Polarstern is currently located and trapped in ice.

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Online Learning Opportunities

If you’re in need of new learning materials for yourself or for your family, we’ve outlined some of the online training opportunities offered by EUMETSAT.

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Aviation weather consultation onboard the RV Polarstern

In the final blog of the series, the students discuss aviation weather reporting for the safety of the helicopter crews coming and going on the mission.

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RV Polarstern, a truly unique ship

The second blog from the students tracking the MOSAiC expedition is here.

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Arctic sea ice minimum 2019 – how did it fare this year

An annual occurrence when the area/volume of Arctic ice has reached its smallest after the “summer melt season”.

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2019 - Another record-breaking year for our planet

The summer headlines have brought news of scorching temperatures, devastating wildfires and worrying predictions for the future of our planet.

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Working together for the benefit of our planet

The 16 September 2019 once again marks the United Nations’ International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer.

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A closer look at Satellite Application Facilities

With SAF Network Manager, Lothar Schüller.

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Life as a EUMETSAT fellow

Peter Weston shares his experience with us.

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Exploring the data archive with Lothar Wolf at EUMETSAT

Lothar Wolf has been working as Data Service Competence Area Manager at EUMETSAT for over 15 years.

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Using satellites for climate research

Getting satellite data to do the talking.

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EUMETSAT to host first ever Copernicus ‘Eyes on Earth’ Roadshow

The world we live in requires us to have our eyes open at all times – and well-focused on Earth – so that we can leave the best possible planet for the future generations.

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FIDUCEO Workshop on uncertainty propagation now open for registration

The Fidelity and Uncertainty in Climate Data Records from Earth Observation team has announced its second workshop in Lisbon on 25-27 June.

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Relive the experience of the Atmosphere MOOC

All course material is now accessible through a new website.

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EUMETSAT attends 2019 Living Planet Symposium

Held at the MiCo - Milano Congressi exhibition space.

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GIIRS data now available on EUMETCast

Instrument onboard FY-4A satellite is now delivering the first operational data.

Geostationary Interferometric Infrared Sounder data available now on EUMETCast

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2019 EUMETSAT fellows make their mark at ECMWF

Each year, EUMETSAT opens up a limited number of fellowships for early-career scientists in order to engage the younger research community/promote the use of our satellite data.

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Being a Training Officer at EUMETSAT

Meet Federico Fierli as part of our Inside EUMETSAT series.

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Balance for Better? We certainly think so!

Celebrating International Women's Day 2019.

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Another eventful year for our planet in 2018

The fascinating EUMETSAT 2018 Year of Weather video has now been published.

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Underwater imaging enhanced with the help of Sentinel-3

Recent case study presents us with a crucial feature of ocean colour satellites.

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Unravel the composition of our planet's atmosphere

The atmosphere is a complex system – how is it monitored? What threats does it face?

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The last leg of the Polarstern's journey

The students following the Polarstern have provided us with one final report on what the vessel encountered on the way to its final destination: Cape Town.

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Thar she blows - Polarstern blog number five

Blog number five has landed and this week's hot topic is wind!

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First interferogram from Metop-C’s IASI instrument

On 14:19 on 10 December 2018, the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer on board Metop-C performed its first measurement.

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Getting to know the weather a little better with the Polarstern

It’s week four of the Polarstern’s voyage and you know what that means – a brand-new blog post from the students following its path.

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Industrial and agricultural ammonia point sources exposed

Lieven Clarisse and Martin Van Damme from ULB have reported on their findings in Nature this week and they are reproduced below on our Science Blog.

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An update on the Polarstern's progress

It’s the second week aboard the Polarstern and the third blog post recording the adventure!

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Copernicus AtmosHack a success

On 16-18 November, 10 teams from across Europe participated in the Copernicus Hackathon challenge “Hack the Atmosphere” in Helsinki, Finland.

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Metop-C – where is it now

Metop-C was launched from the European Space Port in Kourou, French Guiana, on 7 November.

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The Polarstern logbook

What's on board the vessel and what was seen during the first days of the virtual mission to Cape Town from Bremerhaven.

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Switching on Metop-C’s instruments

Metop-C is now safely orbiting the Earth after a spectacular and eagerly-awaited launch on 7 November.

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Going on a virtual journey with the Polarstern

The research vessel Polarstern is currently travelling from Germany to Cape Town and a group of German meteorology students are reporting on its progress with weekly blog posts.

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Launch success!

After years of hard work and planning, Metop-C was successfully launched from Kourou at 01:47 (CET) Wednesday!

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Metop-C – on the launch pad and ready to go

Metop-C is now safely encapsulated inside the fairing atop the Soyuz launcher and waiting on the launch pad in Kourou.

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Metop-C – what happens after lift-off

Launching a spacecraft into orbit is something that ignites the public’s imagination.

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On-ground preparation for three satellites in orbit

In previous blogs, it has been mentioned that once launched, Metop-C will fly in a “tri-star” constellation with its sibling spacecraft, Metop-A and –B.

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Metop – still state-of-the-art, 30 years on

Metop-C will be the third satellite in the EUMETSAT Polar System programme.

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Metop-C – fuelling process set to begin

The Metop-C launch campaign is back in full swing and picking up pace as we approach the 7 November launch date.

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Arctic sea ice reaches sixth-lowest minimum

Dr Rasmus Tonboe explains what that means.

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Why we need Metop-C

Observations from polar orbit benefit weather forecasting and climate monitoring on Earth.

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Almost ready for flight...

Metop-C launch campaign in stand-by.

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Forecasting fires

From Monchique to Mozambique and beyond.

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Assembling Metop-C for launch

If you’ve been following our blog, you’ll know Metop-C safely arrived in Kourou, French Guiana, aboard three massive Antonov cargo planes.

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C’s the day!

The Metop-C launch campaign begins.

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Mapping carbon monoxide to aid air quality forecasts

Carbon monoxide is an odourless, colourless gas normally present in low concentrations in the air we breathe.

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How satellites can help detect impending droughts

In this era of seeming plenty, it’s shocking to learn that almost 124 million people faced crisis levels of food insecurity last year.

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Out-of-this-world imagery of our planet’s “lungs”

Today (8 June) is World Oceans Day and EUMETSAT is proud to bring you some out-of-this-world imagery of planet Earth’s oceans and seas.

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Becoming weather ready and climate smart

“Weather ready, climate smart” is the theme of this year’s World Meteorological Day.

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Words from the WISE on International Women’s Day

We bring you some words from Women in Science and Engineering, and those pursuing their professional passion at EUMETSAT.

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Make a world of difference at EUMETSAT

Calling all graduates!

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Brewing up a storm in 2017

The brute strength of nature was particularly evident in 2017 when hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones left trails of misery in their wake in communities around the globe.