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From new satellites to Minecraft models – a lot has been happening in the world of ocean monitoring from space in 2016… here are some highlights.
The Copernicus Sentinel-6A Michael Freilich ocean-monitoring satellite was launched at 18:17 (CET) on November 2020 from Vandenberg air force base, California.
Currently being developed for the specific needs of the Copernicus programme,
Deriving Total Column Water Vapour (TCWV) and a Wet Tropospheric Correction (WTC) from observations from the S3 Microwave Radiometer (MWR).