Worksheet introduction


Precipitation and position of ITC during the month of January
 
Precipitation and position of ITC during the month of January
 
 
For the next exercises we will need the Meteosat satellite images that you can download from the right.

Save the images to your hard disk in a folder entitled 'Weather'.

Some of the following exercises require the use of the LEOWorks software. LEOWorks has been developed by ESA and can be downloaded by clicking on the link in the right navigation bar.
  
 
  
Last update: 17 April 2013


African climate

 •  Introduction (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Weather_EN/SEM1C3KTYRF_0.html)
 •  Background (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Weather_EN/SEMLD3KTYRF_0.html)

Exercises

 •  Manual exercises (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Weather_EN/SEMCM3KTYRF_0.html)
 •  Exercises using LEOWorks (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Weather_EN/SEM7Y3KTYRF_0.html)

Links

 •  Meteosat images (http://www.eumetsat.int)
 •  Actual weather
animation using
Meteosat (http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/IPPS/html/MSG/IMAGERY/IR108/BW/FULLDISC/)
 •  Weather broadcast worldwide (http://weather.edition.cnn.com/weather/intl/forecast.jsp)
 •  Climate system (http://www.espere.net/index.html)
 •  Seasonal change of the NDVI (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Weather_EN/SEML04KTYRF_0.html)

Eduspace - Software

 •  LEOWorks 3 (http://esamultimedia.esa.int/multimedia/LEOWorks3.exe)

Eduspace - Download

 •  Africa - Meteosat visible channel (http://esamultimedia.esa.int/img/2013/11/Meteosat_VIS.zip)
 •  Africa - Meteosat thermal infrared channel (http://esamultimedia.esa.int/img/2013/11/Meteosat_IR.zip)
 •  Africa - Meteosat water vapour channel (http://esamultimedia.esa.int/img/2013/11/Meteosat_WV.zip)