An Eye in the Sky EUMETSAT Monitoring Weather, Climate and the Environment Slide: 1
Hazardous Weather Slide: 2
Hazardous Weather Slide: 3
Natural Disasters set off by severe weather Slide: 4
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 monitoring of the climate and the environment as well as the detection of global climatic changes. Slide: 5
EUMETSAT s Mission is.... to deliver operational satellite data and products that satisfy the meteorological and climate data requirements of its Member States - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This is carried out according to the recommendations of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Slide: 6
Data Applications For daily weather forecasting... Slide: 7
Data Applications For aviation and maritime transport... Slide: 8
Data Applications To assist the human forecaster in diagnosing and monitoring the development of hazardous weather systems... Slide: 9
Data Applications and for climate monitoring. Slide: 10
19 Member States & 11 Cooperating States Member States Cooperating States Austria Greece Portugal Bulgaria Iceland* Romania Belgium Ireland Slovak Republic Croatia Latvia Serbia & Montenegro* Denmark Italy Spain Czech Republic Lithuania Slovenia Finland Luxembourg Sweden Hungary Poland France The Netherlands Switzerland Germany Norway Turkey United Kingdom Slide: 11 *Pending Ratification
Member State Contributions 2006 Germany 21.40% United Kingdom 16.64% France 15.70% Italy 12.64% Spain 7.28% Netherlands 4.42% Cooperating States: Bulgaria 0.16% Croatia 0.21% Czech Republic 0.70% Hungary 0.61% Iceland* Latvia 0.09% Switzerland 3.06% Belgium 2.70% Poland 1.88% Sweden 2.59% Romania 0.45% Austria Norway 2.20% 1.98% Turkey 1.92% Denmark 1.82% Greece 1.44% Finland 1.41% Portugal 1.26% Ireland 1.07% Slovak Republic 0.26% Luxembourg 0.21% Slide: 12 Lithuania 0.14% Serbia & Montenegro* Slovenia 0.23% * Pending Ratification
Staff Nationalities GERMANY - 28.31% DENMARK - 3.20% SPAIN - 5.48% BELGIUM - 3.20% SWITZERLAND - 0.46% IRELAND - 1.37% AUSTRIA - 1.37% NORWAY - 1.83% GREECE - 1.37% FRANCE - 15.53% ITALY - 11.87% THE NETHERLANDS - 3.20% PORTUGAL - 0.91% SWEDEN - 2.28% TURKEY - 1.83% FINLAND - 1.37% UNITED KINGDOM - 16.44% Slide: 13
EUMETSAT Structure EUMETSAT Council Policy Advisory Committee (PAC) Scientific & Technical Group (STG) Administrative & Finance Group (AFG) Working Group on Data Policy (WGP) EUMETSAT Advisory Committee of Cooperating States (EACCS) Director - General Financial Control Strategy and International Relations Quality Assurance Programme Development Operations Administration Geostationary Programmes Control Centre Communication and Information Services Low Earth Orbit Programmes Meteorology Programme Preparation and SAF Network Jason-2 Contracts Maintenance & Engineering Meteorological Operations User Service Finance General Services Legal Affairs System Engineering Support Personnel Slide: 14
What We Do Today The EUMETSAT-ESA Model Operations funded by EUMETSAT Member States - ESA provides some 20% of total system costs for development National European Meteorological Services European Space Industry Private Enterprises, Value Added Services, End-Users Slide: 15 Development and Procurement Agency
EUMETSAT Headquarters Slide: 16
EUMETSAT Ground Segment Member State Cooperating State EPS Ground Station Svalbard EUMETCast American Turnaround Uplink, Near Paris EUMETCast American Turnaround Reception Station, Madrid MSG Ground Station and EUMETCast Uplink, Usingen EUMETSAT HQ, Mission Control Centre, Darmstadt Backup Ground Station Cheia ASCAT Transponder 1 Ankara Province MTP Primary Ground Station and EUMETCast Turnaround Station, Fucino ASCAT Transponder 2 Eskisehir Province Backup and Ranging Ground Station Mas Palomas, Gran Canaria Slide: 17 ASCAT Transponder 3 Yozgat Province
Ground Segment Ground Segment in Usingen, Spitzbergen and Fucino Slide: 18
EUMETSAT Control Centre Slide: 19
Satellite Applications in Europe Member State Cooperating State Satellite Application Facilities (SAF) consortium leaders SAF on Ozone Monitoring SAF on GPS Profiling SAF on Numerical Weather Prediction SAF on Climate Monitoring SAF on Ocean & Sea Ice SAF on Land Surface Analysis Slide: 20 SAF on Nowcasting & Very Short Range Forecasting SAF on Hydrology & Water Management National meteorological service / SAF partner
Overview of the EUMETSAT Ground Segment MSG Jason Data acquisition and Control EPS/Metop Pre-processing EUMETSAT HQ APPLICATIONS GROUND SEGMENT Meteorological Products Extraction Facility (MPEF) EUMETSAT HQ Darmstadt Unified Meteorological Archive and Retrieval Facility (U-MARF) EUMETSAT HQ Darmstadt USERS Slide: 21 SATELLITE APPLICATION FACILITIES within the Member States
EUMETCast Data Providers & Service Management Provider Data Service Management DVB Broadcast Other Sources DWD DWD EUMETSAT SAFs EUMETSAT DVB Uplink Slide: 22 Users
EUMETCast Data Dissemination System Slide: 23
EUMETSAT Contribution to GEOSS In 2005 the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO) embarked to establish a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) EUMETSAT, together with WMO and NOAA, is the lead organization of the EUMETCast-based GEONETCast data dissemination system Readily available in Europe, Africa and America and delivering operational services to users Slide: 24
GEONETCast Slide: 25
EUMETSAT s Satellite Coverage 60 N Meteosat-7 (0 Longitude) Meteosat-8 (3.4 W) 0 Meteosat-5 (63 E) Meteosat-6 (10 E) 60 S 160 Slide: 26 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180
Comparing Image Quality Slide: 27 Meteosat-8 Meteosat-5 Meteosat-5 Meteosat-8 (artificially-coloured (artificially composite coloured) of 3 MSG channels) (artificially-coloured (artificially composite coloured) of 3 MSG channels)
Combining Datasets from Various MSG Spectral Channels Hurricane Isabel September 2003 Slide: 28
Polar-orbiting Satellites EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) Slide: 29
EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) Slide: 30
EUMETSAT Polar System GRAS GPS Receiver for Atmospheric Sounding AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer GOME-2 Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment HIRS/4 High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder IASI Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer AMSU-A1 Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A1 AMSU-A2 Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A2 MHS Microwave Humidity Sounder ASCAT Advanced SCATterometer Slide: 31
Instruments - GOME Ozone concentration in the upper atmosphere: The ozone hole over the Antarctic in the left-hand image of October 1996, and the recovery by December 1996 on the right. Slide: 32
Global Satellite System FY-1D (CHINA) GOES-9 JAPAN (USA) 155 E GOES-W (USA) 135 W MTSAT-1R (JAPAN) 140 E INSAT (INDIA) 93.5 E NOAA (USA) GOES-E (USA) 75 W METEOR (RUSSIA) GOMS (RUSSIA) 76 E METEOSAT-9 (EUMETSAT) 6.5 W Slide: 33 FY-2A (CHINA) 86.5 E METEOSAT-8 (EUMETSAT) 3.4 W METEOSAT-7 (EUMETSAT) 0 Longitude METEOSAT-6 (EUMETSAT) 10 E METEOSAT-5 (EUMETSAT) 63 E KALPANA-1 (INDIA) 74 E
EUMETSAT Space Segment Meteosat First Generation Meteosat-5 Meteosat-6 Meteosat-7 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 IODC (63 E) Rapid Scanning (10 E) Primary Service (0 E) stand by IODC (63 E) MSG Meteosat-8 Meteosat-9 Meteosat-10 Meteosat-11 3.4 W 0 (*) (*) MTG EPS MetOp-A MetOp-B MetOp-C Post-EPS OSTM Jason-2 GMES Sentinel 3 Jason-3 (*): replanning of launch dates subject to EUMETSAT Council approval in July 2006 Slide: 34 17 18
EUMETSAT Ambitions for GMES EUMETSAT is planning to take a central role in the EC/ESA Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) Initiative Assuring that Member States are benefiting from synergies and existing capabilities, avoiding duplication and realising cost savings where possible. Operating future GMES satellites: Ocean applications Sentinel-3 Atmospheric applications and Sentinels-4 and -5. Slide: 35
EUMETSAT Thank you for your attention! European Organisation for Operational Monitoring of Atmosphere, Oceans and Land for Weather, Climate and Environment Slide: 36