MetOp-SG data products

Data products cover a wealth of parameters, namely:

• Vertical profiles of temperature and humidity in the atmosphere, even in the presence of clouds
• Wind vectors in the troposphere of the polar regions
• Optical and physical properties of clouds and aerosols, including volcanic ash
• Vertical profiles or column concentrations of ozone, nitrogen dioxide, bromine monoxide, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, carbon dioxide and other atmospheric constituents
• Ultraviolet radiation
• Sea-surface temperature, ocean-surface wind vectors and sea-ice parameters
• Precipitation, soil moisture, snow cover
• Vegetation parameters, surface albedo, land-surface temperature, fire radiative power
• Ionospheric electron content.

MetOp-SG satellites data are broadcasted back to Earth and enable the delivery of regional observations within 15 to 30 minutes from sensing for use in very short and short-range forecasts in Europe. The same regional observations support nowcasting of ‘polar lows’ and other high-impact weather in the Arctic regions not observed by the Meteosat satellites in geostationary orbit.

The combination of the atmospheric composition observations of the Copernicus Sentinel-5 spectrometer with those of IASI-NG, 3MI and METimage will improve air quality forecasts produced by the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service for protecting the health of citizens.