Monitoring Weather and Climate from Space
July 2017
1 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 EUMETSAT mission planning
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METEOSAT SECOND GENERATION METEOSAT-8 METEOSAT-9 METEOSAT-10 METEOSAT-11 METEOSAT THIRD GENERATION MTG-I-1 : IMAGERY MTG-S-1: SOUNDING MTG-I-2: IMAGERY MTG-I-3: IMAGERY EUMETSAT POLAR SYSTEM (EPS) MTG-S-2: SOUNDING METOP-A MTG-I-4: IMAGERY
METOP-B MandatoryProgrammes METOP-C
EUMETSAT POLAR SYSTEM SECOND GENERATION (EPS-SG) METOP-SG A: SOUNDING AND IMAGERY METOP-SG B: MICROWAVE IMAGERY
JASON (HIGH PRECISION OCEAN ALTIMETRY) JASON-2 JASON-3 Optional Programmes SENTINEL-6 (JASON-CS)
COPERNICUS SENTINEL-3 A/B/C/D SENTINEL-4 ON MTG-S
SENTINEL-5 ON METOP-SG A Third Party Programmes YEAR... 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
2 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 EUMETSAT mission planning
Meteosat-10 MTG-I MTG-S 2013 Imagery Sounding 2021 2023 MSG-4 / Meteosat-11 In-orbit storage 2016
Meteosat-9 Meteosat-8 2006 2004
Metop-A Metop-B Metop-C Metop-SG A Metop-SG B 2007 2013 2019 Sounding & Imagery Microwave Imagery 2022 2023
JASON-2 2009
JASON-CS/ SENTINEL-6 Sentinel-3 2021 2016
Sentinel-5 Sentinel-4 JASON-3 on Metop-SG A on MTG-S 2016 2022 2022
3 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 Current EUMETSAT satellites
METOP-A & -B (98.7° incl.) JASON-2 & -3 (63° incl.)
LOW EARTH, SUN-SYNCHRONOUS ORBIT LOW EARTH, NON-SYNCHRONOUS ORBIT EUMETSAT POLAR SYSTEM (EPS) / OCEAN SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY MISSION, INITIAL JOINT POLAR SYSTEM SHARED WITH CNES/NOAA/EU
SENTINEL-3 (98.65° incl.)
LOW EARTH, SUN-SYNCHRONOUS ORBIT COPERNICUS SATELLITES DELIVERING MARINE AND LAND OBSERVATIONS
METEOSAT-8 (41.5° E)
GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT METEOSAT 2ND GENERATION PROVIDING METEOSAT-9, -10, -11 IODC FROM FEBRUARY 2017 – MID-2020 GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT TWO-SATELLITE SYSTEM METEOSAT 2ND GENERATION FULL DISC IMAGERY MISSION (15 MINS) (METEOSAT-10 (0°)) RAPID SCAN SERVICE OVER EUROPE (5 MINS) (METEOSAT-9 (9.5° E))
METEOSAT-11 STORED IN ORBIT (UNTIL MID-2018)
4 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 Current EUMETSAT satellites
5 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 Deploying the MSG and Metop satellites
MSG-1 MSG-2 MSG-3 MSG-4 (Meteosat-8) launch (Meteosat-9) launch (Meteosat-10) launch (Meteosat-11) launch 28 August 2002 21 December 2005 5 July 2012 15 July 2015
METEOSAT SECOND GENERATION METEOSAT-8 METEOSAT-9 METEOSAT-10 METEOSAT-11
YEAR... 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
EUMETSAT POLAR SYSTEM (EPS) METOP-A METOP-B METOP-C
Metop-A launch Metop-B launch 19 October 2006 17 September 2012
6 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 Meteosat Second Generation: a two-satellite operational system
7 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 MSG for nowcasting of severe weather: thunderstorms
8 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 MSG for transport: aviation
Eyjafjallajökull ash cloud from 7 to 11 May 2010 (second eruption)
9 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 MSG for confirmation of forecasts
10 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 EUMETSAT Polar System: part of the Initial Joint Polar System shared with the US
11 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 Impact of EUMETSAT satellites on NWP
Metop In-situ NOAA + Suomi-NPP Geostationary Other Low Earth Orbit
12 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 EPS contribution to numerical weather prediction
Five-day forecast of cyclone Sandy landfall on the US coast by the ECMWF global model, with (left) and without (right) ingestion of observations from polar orbiting satellites, compared to the operational analysis (best approximation of ground truth, centre)
13 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 Altimetry missions – past, present, future
GFO ERS-2 TOPEX-POSEIDON 1998-2008 1995-2011 1992-2006
ERS-1 1991-2000 GEOSAT 1985-1990 JASON-1 2001-2013
ENVISAT 2002-2012
JASON-2 2008
CRYOSAT 2010 HY-2A-G SENTINEL-3A-D 2A 2011 2B 2018 3A 2016 3B 2017 2C 2018 2D 2019 3C Before 2020 3D 20?? 2E 2021 2F 2020 CFOSAT 2G 2022 SARAL JASON-CS/ 2018 2013 SENTINEL-6 A 2020 B 2026 JASON-3 2016 SWOT 2020
14 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 Jason contributing to mean sea level observations
15 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 Jason-3 contributing to El Nino observations
16 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 EUMETSAT ground systems across Europe
MTP PRIMARY GROUND STATION EPS GROUND STATION EUMETCAST TURNAROUND STATION SVALBARD MTG TT&C GROUND STATION FUCINO MSG BACKUP AND RANGING MTG GROUND STATIONS MTP BACKUP GROUND STATION LEUK, LARIO MASPALOMAS, GRAN CANARIA MTG TT&C GROUND STATION CHEIA
ASCAT TRANSPONDER 3 YOZGAT PROVINCE
EUMETCAST AFRICAN TURNAROUND RECEPTION STATION AND EPS EUMETSAT HEADQUARTERS ASCAT TRANSPONDER 1 BACKUP CONTROL CENTRE MISSION CONTROL CENTRE ANKARA PROVINCE MADRID DARMSTADT
EUMETCAST AFRICAN MSG GROUND STATION ASCAT TRANSPONDER 2 TURNAROUND UPLINK AND EUMETCAST UPLINK ESKISEHIR PROVINCE NEAR PARIS USINGEN
17 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 Delivering time-critical data to three continents
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• 2262 users in Member States • 5 users in Cooperating State • 2779 users world-wide
EUMETCast Africa EUMETCast Europe EUTELSAT 5 WEST A, C-BAND EUTELSAT 10A, KU-BAND
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18 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 •Online access to data
• EUMETView: visualisation service to view EUMETSAT (Meteosat & Metop) and Copernicus Sentinel-3 marine imagery in an interactive way using an online map viewer.
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19 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 Online access to data
eoportal.eumetsat.int create and manage your user account, subscribe to our services
navigator.eumetsat.int explore our catalogue, what and where, supporting documentation
eumetcast.com learn more about our push delivery service
coda.eumetsat.int download Sentinel-3 marine and atmosphere data
archive.eumetsat.int order past data
eumetview.eumetsat.int visualise and explore, create layers in GIS applications
20 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 EUMETSAT Data Centre
§ Archive dating back to 1981 § 1.0 Petabytes stored § 1.5 Petabytes retrieved annually § Raw and reprocessed data, centrally and decentrally produced § Networked with Satellite Application Facilities (SAFs) § Access online via Product Navigator
21 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 MTG full operational configuration
MTG-I MTG-S MTG-I Rapid Scan Service Sounding Service Full Scan Service
22 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 MTG-I imaging mission
§ Imagery mission implemented by two MTG-I satellites § Full disc imagery every 10 minutes in 16 bands § Fast imagery of Europe every 2.5 minutes § New Lightning Imager (LI) § Start of operations in 2021 § Operational exploitation: 2021-2042
23 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 MTG-S sounding mission
§ Hyperspectral infrared sounding mission § 3D weather cube: temperature, water vapour, O3, every 30 minutes over Europe § Air quality monitoring and atmospheric chemistry in synergy with Copernicus Sentinel-4 instrument § Start of operations in 2023 § Operational exploitation: 2023-2042
24 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 4D weather cube with MTG-I and MTG-S
§ Lightning
§ Convection § Winds
§ Atmosphere
25 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 MTG – higher resolution imagery
Example of ash detection, SEVIRI Natural Colour RGB, 12:15 UTC, 26 November 2006 (left), MODIS True Colour RGB, 12:20 UTC, 26 November 2006
26 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 EPS-SG full operational configuration
Metop-SG A Sounding & Imagery
Metop-SG B Microwave Imagery
27 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 EPS-SG A sounding and imagery mission
1. IASI-NG Infrared Atmospheric Sounding 4 2. MWS Microwave Sounding 3. METImage 5 Visible-Infrared Imaging 2 4. RO
6 Radio Occultation 1 4 3 5. 3MI Multi-viewing, -channel, -polarisation Imaging 6. Copernicus Sentinel-5 UN/VIS/NIR/SWIR Sounding
28 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 EPS-SG B microwave imagery mission
1. SCA Scatterometer 2. RO Radio Occultation 3 2 5 3. MWI Microwave Imaging for Precipitation 4 4. ICI 1 1 Ice Cloud Imager
2 5. ARGOS-4 Advanced Data Collection System
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29 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 EPS-SG mission capabilities
§ Major improvements to all EPS observation missions § Infrared and microwave sounding § Optical imagery (METImage, developed by DLR) § Scatterometer § Radio occultation
§ New imagery missions: § 3MI: first operational imaging polarimeter § MWI: microwave imagery of precipitation § ICI: Ice Cloud imagery
30 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 Jason-CS
1. Poseidon-4 Dual Frequency Altimeter 2 2. AMR-C 6 Advanced Microwave Radiometer
4 3. DORIS Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite
1 4. GNSS RO GNSS Radio Occultation
5 3 5. LRA Laser Retroreflector Array 6. GNSS POD GNSS Precise Orbit Determination (unseen on top of the satellite)
31 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 From weather to environmental forecasting
32 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 Third party programmes in support of Copernicus COPERNICUS
YEAR... 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
METEOSAT THIRD GENERATION MTG-S-1: SOUNDING
MTG-S-2: SOUNDING
SENTINEL-4 ON MTG-S
EUMETSAT POLAR SYSTEM SECOND GENERATION (EPS-SG) METOP-SG A: SOUNDING AND IMAGERY SENTINEL-5 ON METOP-SG A Monitoring AtmosphericComposition
JASON (HIGH PRECISION OCEAN ALTIMETRY) JASON-2 JASON-3
SENTINEL-6 (JASON-CS)
SENTINEL-3 A/B/C/D Monitoring theocean
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33 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 Sentinel-3
1. OLCI Ocean and Land Colour Instrument 2. SLSTR 4 1 Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer 3. SRAL 2 SAR Radar Altimeter 4. MWR 3 Microwave Radiometer
34 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 EUMóNOAA Cooperation
35 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 EUMóNOAA Cooperation (1)
• Cooperation in satellite meteorology, oceanography and climate monitoring
• Focus on operational data exchange, data redistribution, production of climate-relevant datasets, scientific exchange, user training, coordination through multilateral partnerships (CGMS, CEOS, GEO)
36 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 EUMóNOAA Cooperation (2)
• Joint programmes: • Joint Polar System – EPS-SG and JPSS • Altimetry - Jason-CS/Sentinel-6 • Data Exchange & Distribution: • MSG at 0deg & IODC • GOES-R • GEONETCast • Science: • Many joint science activities
37 EUM/SCIR/VWG/17/901618 That’s it ….
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