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Public release of Metop-C global IASI Level 2 products
Thursday, 17 October 2019
Metop-C global IASI Level 2 products will be available on EUMETCast and on the GTS from 24 October.
Jason-2 altimetry satellite decommissioned
Friday, 04 October 2019
Jason-2 altimetry satellite decommissioned after more than 11 years of ocean monitoring
Jason-2 Announcement
Monday, 30 September 2019
After more than 11 years in orbit and well beyond its three- to five-year mission baseline, the Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM) on Jason-2 will permanently cease acquisition of scientific data at 06:48 UTC on 1 October 2019 due to ageing-related issues onboard the spacecraft.
Updated version of the proxy MTG FCI Level 1C datasets released
Monday, 30 September 2019
An updated version of the proxy Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) Level 1C datasets issued in June, has now been released.
EUMETSAT promotes international cooperation and prepares for launching next generation satellites to bring monitoring of weather and climate to a new era
Monday, 30 September 2019
BOSTON - As forecasting of high impact weather needs to meet higher expectations in our changing climate, EUMETSAT promotes international cooperation under the aegis of the WMO and is preparing to deploy one next-generation satellite per year in the period 2021-2025.
H02B product from H SAF on EUMETCast soon
Monday, 30 September 2019
The H02B product from H SAF will be available on EUMETCast from 17 October.
Copernicus Sentinel-6 – a cooperative project to monitor Earth’s oceans
Tuesday, 24 September 2019
The ramifications of the effects of climate change on the Earth’s oceans are clearer this week with the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report.
HY-2 data acquisition service with FMI-ARC Sodankylä kicks off
Tuesday, 24 September 2019
EUMETSAT representatives visited the Finnish Meteorological Institute-Arctic Space Centre (FMI-ARC) in Sodankylä, Finland last week to kick off the Haiyang (HY-2) reception service for Near-Real-Time (NRT) data processing.
Inclusion of Metop-C data in the EARS-IASI Level 1 service
Thursday, 19 September 2019
Metop-C data will be added to the regional EARS-IASI Level 1 service from 25 September.
Joint CALMet XIII and EUMETCAL Conference 2019 hosted by EUMETSAT
Tuesday, 17 September 2019
EUMETSAT will be host to over 100 visitors this week as it open its doors to educators, trainers and managers from universities, research institutions and National Meteorological and Hydrological Services at its Darmstadt headquarters.
New BUFR encoding for EUMETSAT’s wind products
Thursday, 12 September 2019
A new BUFR encoding sequence for all EUMETSAT’s wind products will be introduced in 2020.
NOAA-20 Environmental Data Records (EDRs) on EUMETCast soon
Thursday, 12 September 2019
EDRs from NOAA-20 will be distributed on EUMETCast, in the frame of Copernicus, from 19 September.
EUMETSAT Director-General to discuss future satellite missions at EISC
Monday, 09 September 2019
Taking place in Berlin this year under German chairmanship, the 21st European Interparliamentary Space Conference (EISC) is an opportunity to present EUMETSAT’s views on the continuity of our programmes, our cooperation with Copernicus plus EUMETSAT’s plans for benefitting from opportunities raised by new space technologies, i.e. through small satellite missions.
Extension of the pilot NOAA Direct Broadcast Service (NDB) to include ATOVS data
Thursday, 05 September 2019
The pilot NDB Service will include ATOVS data from 12 September.
Public release of Metop-C GOME-2 Polar Multi-Sensor Aerosol Optical Properties (PMAp) product
Thursday, 05 September 2019
Metop-C GOME-2 PMAp product will be available on EUMETCast from 12 September.
Met Office East Africa 4 km model to be retired
Thursday, 05 September 2019
From 17 September 2019, the Met Office East Africa 4 km model data will no longer be available.