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EUMETSAT Monitoring Weather and Climate from Space EUMETSAT Monitoring weather and climate from space Slide: 1 ESCCON 2011 15 March 2011) Weather forecasting Value of weather forecasting to economy is > 20 times budget of public weather service Contribution from satellite data > 35% (source: Case for Space Final Report, UK Space 2006) Slide: 2 ESCCON 2011 15 March 2011 Hazardous weather Tropical Cyclone Nargis Hurricane Isabel 27 April – 3 May 2008 6 – 15 September 2003 Slide: 3 ESCCON 2011 15 March 2011 Number of Natural disasters set off by severe weather 250 FLOOD STORM 200 EARTHQUAKE DROUGHT EXTREME TEMPERATURES 150 LANDSLIDE VOLCANO WILDFIRE 100 INSECT INFESTATION 50 0 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 Source: EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database Slide: 4 ESCCON 2011 15 March 2011 Climate changgge monitoring Global average sea level rise (1994-2010) Source: University of Colorado, LEGOS/CNES GLOBAL AVERAGE SEA LEVEL (mm) 40 ALTIMETRIC MEAN SEA LEVEL (MERGED) + 30 RATE = 3.2 - 0.4 MM/YR 60-DAY SMOOTING 20 TOPEX/POSEIDON JASON 10 0 -10 -20 -30 19941995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Slide: 5 ESCCON 2011 15 March 2011 EUMETSAT objectives • The primary objective is to establish, maintain and exploit European systems of operational meteorological satellites. • A further objective is to contribute to the operational monitoringgg of the climate as well as the detection of global climatic changes. • Furthermore, environmental issues which drive or are driven by meteorological conditions are considered. Slide: 6 ESCCON 2011 15 March 2011 EUMETSAT’s mission is…. To deliver operational satellite data and products that meet the meteorological and climate data requirements of its Member States, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, through decades. This is carried out taking into account the recommendations of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Slide: 7 ESCCON 2011 15 March 2011 Member States scale of contributions 2011 GERMANY 19.20% UNITED KINGDOM 15.62% FRANCE 14.70% ITALY 12.04% SPAIN 7.56% THE NETHERLANDS 4.38% SWITZERLAND 2. 75% BELGIUM 2.57% SWEDEN 2.53% TURKEY 2.27% AUSTRIA 2.05% Cooppgerating States: NORWAY 2.03% BULGARIA : 0.18% POLAND 1.95% ESTONIA : 0.09% DENMARK 1.78% ICELAND : 0.10% GREECE 1.65% LITHUANIA : 0.16% FINLAND 1.35% SERBIA : 0 .18% PORTUGAL 1.23% IRELAND 1.17% CZECH REPUBLIC 0.80% HUNGARY 006.69% ROMANIA 0.57% SLOVAK REPUBLIC 0.32% CROATIA 0.25% SLOVENIA 0.23% LUXEMBOURG 0.21% LATVIA 0.10% Slide: 8 ESCCON 2011 15 March 2011) Expenditure 2011 (MEUR) MSG – 55.6 GB – 33.0 JASON-3 – 26.5 MTG*– 56.0 GMES SENTINEL-3 – 7.4 MTP – 6.2 MTG PP – 5.3 JASON-2 – 4.1 EC-UCURDP – 0.4 EPS – 112.0 Total Expenditure 2011: MEUR 306.5 * Budget pending entry into force of the programmes Slide: 9 ESCCON 2011 15 March 2011 Current Financial Planning 2011-2030... Budgets 2000-2010 & Financial Plan 2011-2030 Contributions at 2011 economic conditions (MEUR) 500 442.8 450 389.7 400 360.9 345 348.6 336.2 350 318.8 293.7 300 286.2 246.8 250 260.8 262.5 200 G-3 s CS1 s SS 150 aa J 164.9 M 100 50 MSG-4 Jason-3 MSG-1 MSG-2 MTG-I-1 MTG-S-1 MetOpA Jason-2 MetOpB MetOpC 0 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 Sa te llite (Approved Programmes, EPS SG PP, EPS SG, Post MTG and Jason CS) Launches Slide: 10 ESCCON 2011 15 March 2011 What we do USER REQUIREMENTS European National Meteorological Operating Agency Services European Space Industry Interface with users and overall system design and development. Responsible for procurement of ground segment and launch services Satellite Private Enterprises, development and Value-Added Services, procurement agency End-Users DELIVERY Slide: 11 ESCCON 2011 15 March 2011 Geostationary satellites Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) • consists of a series of four geostationary weather satellites • scheduled to operate consecutively until 2018 • provides important image data on European weather on a daily basis, every 15 minutes with 12 spectral bands • Meteosat-9 (in operation since 2006) provides data collection and environmental monitoring data • Meteosat-8 ((pin operation since 2004) provides Rapid Scan Service (RSS) images every five minutes • RSS delivers image data and meteorological products for the detection of rapidly developing localised convective weather systems. Slide: 12 ESCCON 2011 15 March 2011 EUMETSAT’s ggyeostationary satellite covera ge 60 N Meteosat-9(09 (0° Longitude) Meteosat-8 (9.5° E) 0 Meteosat-7 (57.5° E) Meteosat-6 (67.5° E) 60 S 160140 120 100 80 60 40 20 04060 20 80 100 120 140 160 180 Slide: 13 ESCCON 2011 15 March 2011 Polar-orbiting satellites EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) Europe’s first series of polar-orbiting satellites for operational meteorology consists of three Metop in low Earth orbit to operate over a period of at least 14 years. Metop-A (launched in 2006) • carries imaging and sounding instruments • direct broadcasting and data collection capabilities • significant contribution to the Global Observing System and the monitoring of climate and atmospheric chemistry. EPS data • unprecedented accuracy; used in various applications such as Numerical Weather Prediction models, atmospheric composition, cloud detection Partners: analysis or radiation budget components. • EPS –SG (in approval process) • Second Generation EPS ready in 2018 • two satellite configuration being studied with distributed payloads for the two satellites • Payload to include GMES Sentinel-5 Slide: 14 ESCCON 2011 15 March 2011 Monitoring the oceans Jason satellites Jason-2 • launched in June 2008 from Vandenberg, California • EUMETSAT’s first optional programme on ocean altimetry • enabled EUMETSAT to extend its expertise in data and product dissemination for weather forecasting and climate monitoring • inclusion of data in support of marine meteorology, operational oceanography, seasonal prediction and climate monitoring. Jason-3 • programme under development • will provide continuity after Jason-2 •sate llite sch ed ul ed f or l aunch i n 2013 Jason-CS Partners: • future programme under discussion • to provide continuity after Jason-3 Slide: 15 ESCCON 2011 15 March 2011 Global meteorologgyical satellite system GEOSTATIONARY 1-5 GOES-11, -12, -13, -14, -15 (USA) 6 METEOSAT-9 (EUMETSAT) 0oLongitude 7 METEOSAT-8 (EUMETSAT) 9.5oE 8 METEOSAT-7 (EUMETSAT) 57.5oE 9 METEOSAT-6 (()EUMETSAT) 67.5oE 10 GOMS-2 (RUSSIA) 11 KALPANA-1 (INDIA) 12 FY-2D (CHINA) 13 INSAT-3A (INDIA) 14 FY-2E (CHINA) 15 FY-2C (CHINA) 16 COMS (SOUTH KOREA) 17 MTSAT-1R (JAPAN) 18 MTSAT-2 (JAPAN) LOW EARTH ORBIT 19 METOP-A (EUMETSAT) 20 JASON-2 (USA, EUROPE) 21-25 NOAA-15, -16, -17, -18, -19 (USA) 26 FY-1D (CHINA) EUMETSAT SATELLITES 27 FY-3A (CHINA) PARTNER SATELLITES 28-29 OCEANSAT-1, -2 (INDIA) 27-2830 METEOR-M N1 (RUSSIA) Slide: 16 ESCCON 2011 15 March 2011 EUMETSAT sppgace segment YEAR... 00 01 02 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 FIRST GENERATION METEOSAT-6 METEOSAT-7 METEOSAT SECOND GENERATION METEOSAT-8 METEOSAT-9 METEOSAT-10 METEOSAT-11 METEOSAT THIRD GENERATION MTG-l-1 MTG-S-1 MTG-l-2 MTG-l-3 MTG-S-2 MTG-l-4 EUMETSAT POLAR SYSTEM (EPS) METOP-A METOP-B METOP-C EPS SECOND GENERATION OCEAN SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY MISSION JASON-2 JASON-3 JASON CONTINUITY OF SERVICES (CS) THIRD-PARTY PROGRAMMES GMES SENTINEL-3 GMES SENTINEL-4 ON MTG GMES SENTINEL-5 ON EPS SECOND GENERATION Slide: 17 ESCCON 2011 15 March 2011 EUMETSAT ggground segment overview EUMETSAT geostationary systems Jason-2 EUMETSAT Polar System Meteosat satellites Optional programme for ocean altimetry Metop satellites NOAA satellites Data acquisition Flight Operations and control Pre-processing Third-party EUMETSAT HQ data sources Data Centre Meteorologgpical product extraction Satellite Application Facilities EUMETSAT HQ Darmstadt EUMETSAT HQ Darmstadt within the Member States Centralised processing Decentralised processing and generation of products and generation of products Data dissemination via EUMETCast Applications Ground Segment Users Slide: 18 ESCCON 2011 15 March 2011 EUMETCast coverage EUMETCAST AMERICAS EUMETCAST EUROPE NSS-806, C-BAND EB-9, KU-BAND EUMETCAST AFRICA AB-3, C-BAND Slide: 19 ESCCON 2011 15 March 2011 EUMETSAT Data Centre • Archive dating back to 1981 • Over 530 Terabytes of data stored • Over 1.3 Petabytes of data retrieved annually • Raw and reprocessed data, centrally and decentrally produced • Data retrieval for reprocessing for climate monitoring • Seamless Data Centre Network with da ta from EUMETSAT S at ellit e Application Facilities (SAFs) • Access online via Product Navigator Slide: 20 ESCCON 2011 15 March 2011 Geostationary satellites Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) • will consist of four imaging and two sounding satellites • scheduled to start operations from 2019, taking over from MSG • will provide important image data on European weather on a daily basis, every 10 minutes with 16 spectral bands •thllllhhe imaging satellites will carry the revolutionary new Lightning Imager providing better data for users such as civil aviation • the sounding satellites will carry an infrared soundfder for t hfiihe first time ever providi idifng four- dimensional (over time and space) high- resolution data on water vapour and temperature structures •also on b oard th e soundi ng satelli tes will b e th e Global Monitoring for Environment and Security Sentinel-4 Ultraviolet Visible Near-infrared spectrometer for atmospheric chemistry and air quality monit ori ng Slide: 21 ESCCON 2011 15 March 2011 MTG Mission The MTG mission capitalises on the continuation and enhancement of the Meteosat Second Generation (()MSG) capabilities with respect to nowcasting, global and regional numerical weather prediction, climate and atmospheric chemistry monitoring.
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