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| | | | | | | Europe's MSG weather satellite serves scientists as well as forecasters
15 September 2004
| In early March 2004, a cold air outbreak from Europe to Western Africa caused a major dust storm over large parts of West Africa. On its travel southward, the cold air fanned out across the Sahara, highly diverging over subtropic regions giving the dust front the form of a spanish fan. In the following days, the dust was blown out across the Atlantic Ocean and reached the coast of South America. This 3 March 2004 Meteosat-8 SEVIRI image is a RGB (red green blue) composite of the phenomenon.
Credits: EUMETSAT | |  |  | |
| | | | | | | | | Researchers making scientific use of MSG data met at the Second MSG Research Announcement of Opportunity (RAO) Workshop on 9 and 10 September 2004 in Salzburg, Austria. The objective of the RAO is to promote the scientific use of the new MSG satellites outside the operational meteorological user community, also in synergy with ERS and Envisat data. There was 25 presentations by Principal Investigators during the Workshop.
Credits: ESA | | | | |
| | | | | The core instrument on board Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) is called SEVIRI (Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager). This imaging radiometer permanently scans the atmosphere and the Earth's surface within the visible and the infrared spectrum of light. Using a patented three-mirror telescope with a scan assembly and a cooler unit, it generates a high-resolution image in just 15 minutes. The incoming radiation is sensed by the detector in 12 channels, depending on the wavelength, each channel representing a different type of information. SEVIRI was developed by the European Space Agency and built by Astrium Space.
Credits: Astrium 2002 | | | | |
| | | | | Participants of the September 2004 MSG Research Announcement of Opportunity (RAO) Workshop in Salzburg, Austria. Some 25 presentations took place during the two-day Workshop, with many presenters stresssing the exceptional radiometric quality of MSG's new Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infra-red Imager (SEVIRI).
Credits: ESA | | | | |
| | | | | MetOp is a series of three meteorological operational polar orbiting satellites, the first of which, MetOp-1 is the prototype.
The instruments on MetOp will produce high-resolution images, vertical temperature and humidity profiles, and temperatures of the land and ocean surface on a global basis. Also on board the satellites will be instruments for monitoring ozone and wind flow over the oceans. Those instruments will be of significant value to meteorologists and other scientists, particularly those studying the global climate.
MetOp-A was launched on 19 October 2006 and is part of an international joint system in cooperation with the USA.
Credits: ESA-Silicon World | | | | |
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