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New version of the MSG Evapotranspiration product from LSA SAF available soon
Thursday, 07 February 2019
An enhanced Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) Evapotranspiration product from LSA SAF will be distributed on EUMETCast from 20 February.
Corrected Sea Surface Heights products from Sentinel-3B available soon
Thursday, 07 February 2019
Sentinel-3B Corrected Sea Surface Heights products will be distributed on EUMETCast from 14 February, extending the service from Sentinel-3A.
New precipitation products from H SAF on EUMETCast soon
Thursday, 31 January 2019
The P-IN-SEVIRI (PR-OBS-3B) and P-AC-SEVIRI (PR-OBS-5B) products from H SAF will be available on EUMETCast from 14 February.
H SAF SM-OBS-2 product in netCDF on EUMETCast soon
Thursday, 31 January 2019
The ‘Small scale surface soil moisture by radar scatterometer’ netCDF product from the H SAF will be available on EUMETCast from 14 February.
New reprocessed Sentinel-3A SLSTR data available
Friday, 25 January 2019
The reprocessed SLSTR-A Level 2 WST products covering the period from 19/04/2016 to 04/04/2018 are now available.
Electro-L N2 and INSAT-3D data on EUMETCast Africa soon
Thursday, 24 January 2019
These data will be available from 7 February 2019.
Third Party Services enhanced with the deployment of ATOVS and AVHRR Pre-Processing Package (AAPP) version 8.3
Thursday, 24 January 2019
The AAPP has been improved in order to synchronise products from FengYun-3 (FY-3) with those disseminated by the China Meteorological Administration (CMA).
ScatSat-1 Wind products from OSI SAF on EUMETCast soon
Thursday, 24 January 2019
ScatSat-1 Wind products from OSI SAF will be available on EUMETCast from 7 February.
Extension of Delegation Agreement with the European Union for the Copernicus Programme
Tuesday, 22 January 2019
The signing of an updated Delegation Agreement between the European Union, represented by the European Commission (EC), and EUMETSAT took place today in Brussels.
Continued high precision measurement of Earth’s sea level is assured
Thursday, 17 January 2019
The most accurate source of measurements of the Earth’s rising sea levels – the Jason-3 satellite mission – will continue for at least two more years from today after the extension of its mission.
New products added to EUMETView
Tuesday, 15 January 2019
Two new RGB products have been added to our web visualisation service, EUMETView, today (15 Jan).
EUMETSAT streamlines its data and service policy to make more data free of charge
Tuesday, 15 January 2019
As it prepares for opening advanced web services in the near future, EUMETSAT has revised its data policy to facilitate online access to its data and products based on simplified licencing conditions, and to offer more data free of charge or at a lower price.
Metop-C’s IASI instrument delivers first spectrum
Darmstadt, Germany
Thursday, 13 December 2018
A critical element of polar-orbiting meteorological satellite Metop-C’s payload – the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) – delivered its first spectrum today.
Upcoming Meteosat-11 SEVIRI decontamination
Thursday, 13 December 2018
A Meteosat-11 SEVIRI decontamination will be performed from 21 to 28 January 2019.
Current GOES-15 data service to end and new GOES-15 data in netCDF to be available soon
Thursday, 06 December 2018
The current GOES-15 data in LRIT format will stop being distributed on EUMETCast on 1 January 2019 and new GOES-15 data in netCDF format will be available from 17 December 2018.
Removal of Packet Identifier (PID) 509 from EUMETCast Basic Service
Thursday, 06 December 2018
On 13 December, PID 509 will be removed from EUMETCast Basic Service.