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Release of Sentinel-3B Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR) Level-1B data
Thursday, 08 November 2018
From 12 November, Sentinel-3B SLSTR Level-1B data will be available at Near Real Time (NRT) timeliness.
EUMETSAT’s third Metop satellite successfully launched
Darmstadt, Germany
Wednesday, 07 November 2018
At 01:47 CET (21:47 Kourou time), EUMETSAT’s polar-orbiting meteorological satellite Metop-C was successfully launched on a Soyuz ST-B rocket from the European Space Port in Kourou, French Guiana.
SO2 products from FMI soon on EUMETCast
Thursday, 01 November 2018
SO2 products from FMI will be available on EUMETCast Europe from 8 November.
Free course explains how air quality is monitored and forecast
Thursday, 01 November 2018
Air quality, specifically the danger to human health caused by breathing polluted air, has been a topic of increasing concern in recent years.
Dust Forecast product from the Barcelona Dust Forecast Center
Thursday, 01 November 2018
A new Dust Forecast product, in netCDF format, will be available on EUMETCast from 8 November.
Upcoming Metop-B Out-Of-Plane manoeuvre
Monday, 29 October 2018
An Out-Of-Plane manoeuvre for Metop-B will be performed on 31 October
Release of a new version of CODA
Monday, 22 October 2018
A new version of CODA (Copernicus Online Data Access) will be released on 29 October.
NOAA’s GOES-15 satellite to start drifting on 29 October - UPDATE
Thursday, 18 October 2018
Filenames of GOES-15 data distributed on EUMETCast will be updated to reflect the new longitude.
GOES-16 Space Weather data on EUMETCast soon
Thursday, 18 October 2018
GOES-16 Space Weather data will be available on EUMETCast Europe from 23 October.
Upgrade of OSI SAF Sea Ice products
Thursday, 27 September 2018
The Medium Resolution Sea Ice Drift and High Latitude L2 Sea and Sea Ice Surface Temperature products will be upgraded on 11 October.
Abidjan forum discusses using satellite data for sustainable development
Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Monday, 24 September 2018
Making best use of satellite data for sustainable development will be discussed by attendees of this week’s EUMETSAT User Forum in Africa
OSTST and 25 years of altimetry
Monday, 24 September 2018
Today marks the start of the “25 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry” symposium, running the whole week and taking place in Ponta Delgada, Azores.
Upgrade of near-real time OSI SAF and EARS-ASCAT wind products
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
The near-real time OSI SAF and EARS-ASCAT wind products will be upgraded on 25 September.
EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference to focus on Baltic and Nordic challenges
Darmstadt, Germany
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
The requirements and challenges for satellite weather and climate monitoring in high latitudes will feature at the EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference in Tallinn next week.
Metop Topside Total Electron Content now available
Thursday, 06 September 2018
Topside Total Electron Content is now available from GNSS observations collected onboard Metop-A and Metop-B.
Himawari-8 10-minute data to be available soon
Thursday, 06 September 2018
Himawari-8 10-minute data will be available on EUMETCast Europe from 12 September.