EUMETSAT Annual Report 2013
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ANNUAL REPORT 2013 LUXEMBOURG NETHERLANDS LITHUANIA Gabriel Lippmann Christophorus H. D. Buys Ballot Marcin Odlanicki Poczobutt 16 August 1845 - 13 July 1921 10 October 1817 - 3 February 1890 30 October 1728 - 7 February 1810 Awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize for Physics for his Buys Ballot is best known for the law named a er Astronomer, mathematician and professor method of reproducing colours photographically, him. This states that, in the Northern Hemisphere, at Vilnius University for over 50 years, Poczobutt Lippmann contributed to many branches of physics. when a person stands with his back to the wind, contributed to astronomy, meteorology and He invented the coelostat, which allowed long-ex- the low atmospheric pressure will be to his le . education, as well as refi nements to cartography. posure photographs of the sky so stars could be Buys Ballot strove to organise the observation From 1770, he systematically measured and photographed without apparent movement. He also and collection of meteorological data and founded recorded weather temperature in Lithuania, with developed a highly sensitive capillary electrometer, the Netherlands Meteorological Institute. continuous records since 1777 surviving. The used in the fi rst ECG machine. moon’s Poczobutt crater is named in his honour. NORWAY LATVIA SLOVENIA Roald Amundsen Friedrich Zander Herman Potočnik 16 July 1872 - c. 18 June 1928 23 August 1887 - 28 March 1933 22 December 1892 - 27 August 1929 Polar explorer who led the fi rst expedition Engineer Zander was a pioneer of rocketry Writing under the pseudonym Hermann to reach the South Pole on 14 December 1911. and aviation. He designed the fi rst liquid-fuelled Noordung, rocket engineer and pioneer of Amundsen became the fi rst person to reach rocket launched in the Soviet Union. He was cosmonautics Potočnik’s book, “The Problem both poles and the fi rst to traverse both the the fi rst person to suggest using the Earth’s of Space Travel” proposed solutions enabling Northeast and Northwest passages. He died in atmosphere to enable a spacecra to brake humans to live in outer space. He proposed a plane crash in the Arctic while on a mission and to grow plants in greenhouses on board. geostationary satellites, detailed a design for to rescue fellow explorer Umberto Nobile. At the same time, he continued his research a space station and described using orbiting into developing jet engine design. spacecra for detailed observation of the Earth. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 SPAIN SLOVAK REPUBLIC BULGARIA José María Algué Ján Bahýľ Vladimir Damgov c. 29 December 1856 - 27 May 1930 25 May 1856 - 13 March 1916 22 November 1947 - 20 June 2006 Roman Catholic priest and astronomer, Algué Inventor and engineer best known for developing A physicist and mathematician, Damgov is became director of the Manila Observatory in 1879, a helicopter with an internal combustion engine, recognised for his contributions to the application during a time of turmoil in the Philippines. He which Bahýl’ fl ew himself in 1905. He also of chaos theory to mechanical and radiophysical invented the barocyclonometer, an instrument invented a hot air balloon combined with an air systems and to space exploration and space that allowed sailors to determine the location and turbine for which he was granted a patent. He is studies. He was a professor at the Space direction of storms, a type of nephoscope, which considered probably Slovakia’s greatest inventor. Research Institute of the Bulgarian Academy measures the alititude, direction and velocity of Sciences and has numerous patents and of clouds, and a microseismograph. publications to his name. GREECE GERMANY ROMANIA Archimedes of Syracuse Alexander von Humboldt Emil Racovită c. 287 BC - c. 212 BC 14 September 1769 - 6 May 1859 15 November 1868 - 17 November 1947 Archimedes was a mathematician and inventor Von Humboldt was an explorer and naturalist Speleologist (cave explorer), zoologist, biologist, who determined that the volume of a sphere who is considered a founder of modern geography. explorer and promoter of natural sciences in is two-thirds that of the smallest cylinder that can A er a journey in Russia, he encouraged the Romania, Racovită was the fi rst biologist to study contain it. He also formulated the law of the lever establishment of weather observatories there, arctic life. In 1897 he took part in an international and the principle of buoyancy. The “Archimedes data from which he was able to use to develop expedition to Antarctica which was also the fi rst Screw” – a revolving spiral inside an open-ended the principle of continentality. He also developed to take hourly meteorological readings and cylinder – allows water to be raised from one level the fi rst isotherm map, which contains lines measurements for a year. He is considered to another. of equal average temperatures. a founder of biospeleology. FRANCE TURKEY UNITED KINGDOM Urbain Le Verrier Ismail Akbay John Dalton 11 March 1811 - 23 September 1877 17 October 1930 - 27 July 2003 6 September 1766 - 27 July 1844 Le Verrier was an astronomer and mathemati- Heralded in his homeland as the “Turkish villager Chemist, meteorologist and physicist Dalton cian who predicted the existence of the planet who helped put man on the moon”, Akbay worked established a cornerstone of modern chemistry Neptune by mathematical means. He also for NASA for more than 30 years. He was involved through his atomic theory, which grew out of his constructed tables of the movements of the sun, in the Apollo, Apollo-Soyuz and Skylab projects. interest in meteorology, atmospheric observations moon and planets, and published works on Akbay also helped set up Space Camp Turkey, and study of gases. His study of the absorption periodic comets. His name is one of the 72 which opened in 2000 and teaches children and of gases in liquids included his law of partial engraved on the Eiff el Tower. young people about astronomy and science. pressures, now known as Dalton’s Law. Footprint on the moon © NASA TABLE OF CONTENTS OPERATING COMPLEX SATELLITE 8 DELIVERING SERVICES AND 13 SYSTEMS AROUND THE CLOCK BENEFITS TO REAL-TIME USERS The word of the Director-General . 2 Full continuity of Meteosat services despite Meteosat imagery central to nowcasting 2013 highlights . 4 a series of complex manoeuvres . 8 of severe weather . 13 Member and Cooperating States . 6 Using the Meteosat-8 back-up satellite Metop observations help improve numerical to improve service availability . 8 weather prediction forecasts . 14 Dual Metop operation improves the robustness Data access and real-time delivery . 15 of the EPS mission and delivers temporary additional benefits . 9 Availability of satellite systems . 9 An increasingly resilient multi-mission ground infrastructure . .. 12 DELIVERING CLIMATE SERVICES 17 DEVELOPING ENHANCED AND NEW 19 SUPPORTING AND EXPANDING 23 PRODUCTS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE USER BASE Recalibration and production of fundamental MEMBER STATES A collaborative approach to user training . 23 climate data records . 17 New operational products . 20 List of training events in 2013 . 23 Production of thematic climate data records . 17 Improvements to existing products . 21 EUMETSAT fellowships and visiting scientists . 24 Adapting EUMETSAT’s ground infrastructure . 18 Progress in scientific developments targeting User conferences . 24 future products . 22 External communications and outreach . 26 Providing support to capacity building initiatives . .26 OPTIMUM DEPLOYMENT OF 28 NEW MANDATORY PROGRAMMES 30 OPERATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY 33 THE RECURRENT SATELLITES Metop-B becomes the primary Metop Meteosat Third Generation . 30 Heading for combined Jason-3 and Sentinel-3 satellite, as part of a fully commissioned EPS Second Generation . 31 operations in 2015 . 33 two-satellite system . 28 Jason-CS: securing service continuity Planning for the launch of Metop-C in 2018 . 28 for Copernicus in 2020 . 34 Preparing MSG-4 for launch in 2015 and in-orbit storage . 29 CooPERATION WITH OTHER 35 EUROPEAN AND 38 MANAGEMENT 42 SATELLITE OPERATORS GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS Multilateral cooperation within CGMS . 35 European space policy and Copernicus . .. 38 EUMETSAT feels first benefits from Bilateral cooperation . 36 Architecture for climate monitoring . 40 reorganisation project . 42 CEOS and GEO . 40 Financial processes . 42 International Charter ‘Space Procurement process . 43 and Major Disasters’ . 41 Human resources management . .. 44 General infrastructure and services . 44 Quality management . 45 Internal control and risk management . 45 KEY FIGURES 46 APPENDIX 53 EUMETSAT mission planning . 46 Organisation . .. 53 The EUMETSAT user base . 47 EUMETSAT Council and Delegate Operational performance indicators. 48 Body chairpersons . 53 Human resources . 51 EUMETSAT Council Delegates and Advisors . 54 Financial information . .. 51 Participation in major external events . 56 Scientific and technical publications . 57 Glossary of terms and acronyms . 60 THE WORD OF THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL The year 2013 was certainly a landmark in the history of EUMETSAT, considering that the organisation gained two more Member States, Estonia and Lithuania, and signed accession agreements with Iceland and Bulgaria, who both joined in 2014. Alain Ratier Director-General This undoubtedly demonstrates the trust placed in the organisation, but also, in the context of the economic crisis, the fact that the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) and EUMETSAT Polar System Second Generation (EPS-SG) satellite systems being established in cooperation with