Slide: 1EUMETSAT Programme Status and Future Activities EUMETSAT Monitoring weather and climate from space

Slide: 2EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites 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 as well as the detection of global climatic changes. Furthermore, environmental issues which drive or are driven by meteorological conditions are considered.

Slide: 3EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites 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, through decades. This is carried out taking into account the recommendations of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

Slide: 4EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites 26 Member States & 5 Cooperating States * SLOVAK REPUBLIC AUSTRIA BELGIUM DENMARK FINLAND FRANCE GERMANY GREECE IRELAND ITALY UNITED KINGDOM TURKEY SWITZERLANDSWEDEN SPAIN PORTUGAL NORWAYNETHERLANDS LUXEMBOURG CROATIA POLAND HUNGARY LATVIA SLOVENIA Member States ROMANIA* CZECH REPUBLIC* LITHUANIA BULGARIAESTONIA ICELAND Cooperating States * Pending full ratification SERBIA

Slide: 5EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites Global meteorological satellite system

Slide: 6EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites EUMETSAT space segment

Slide: 7EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites EUMETSAT’s geostationary satellite coverage Meteosat-9 (0° Longitude) Meteosat-8 (9.5° E) Meteosat-7 (57.5° E) Meteosat-6 (67.5° E) S 0 60 N

Slide: 8EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites Geostationary satellites EUMETSAT operates two Meteosat satellites of the first generation (Meteosat-6 and -7) over the Indian Ocean and two satellites of the second generation (Meteosat-8 and - 9) at 0° longitude delivering the service for Europe. As part of the Indian Ocean Data Coverage service, Meteosat-6 relays tsunami warnings from 48 data collection platforms covering the Indian Ocean region.

Slide: 9EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) Geostationary satellites consists of a series of four geostationary weather satellites operational until 2018 imagery every 15 minutes through 12 spectral bands Meteosat-9 provides data collection and environmental monitoring data Meteosat-8 provides Rapid Scan Service (RSS) since May 2008 RSS delivers image data and meteorological products for the detection of rapidly developing localised convective weather systems. SEVIRI measurements of sea surface temperature are used in products produced by OSI SAF

Slide: 10EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites Channels IR10.8 and IR12.0: SST RGB Composite 02,09,10 OSI SAF 12-hourly SST Product Ocean Eddies, MSG-1, 3 May 2004, 14:00 UTC

Slide: 11EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites METEOSAT Data Collection System

Slide: 12EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites METEOSAT Data Collection System DCP types: –Self-timed –Alert –Combination of Self/timed and Alert DCS Users: –13000 DCP messages received per day –7000 DCP bulletins to the GTS per day

Slide: 13EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites IOTWS DCP Networks

Slide: 14EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites Polar-orbiting satellites EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) Operational over a period of at least 14 years. Metop-A (in operation since 2007) carries imaging and sounding instruments has direct broadcasting and data collection capabilities significantly contributes to the Global Observing System and the monitoring of climate and atmospheric chemistry. EPS data are used in various applications such as Numerical Weather Prediction models, cloud detection analysis or radiation budget components.

Slide: 15EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites Metop instruments AVHRR:a visible & infrared imager HIRS :an infrared sounder AMSU-A:a microwave sounder MHS:a microwave humidity sounder IASI :a hyperspectral infrared sounder GOME :a UV/Visible/Near IR spectrometer ASCAT :a scatterometer radar GRAS :a radio-occultation limb sounder The Metop Sensors GOME : on other side of satellite

Slide: 16EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites ASCAT Instrument on Metop C-Band scatterometer Measures: – Ocean wind speed and direction – Soil moisture – Ice properties Calibration using a ground-based transponder network to ensure consistent performance over 14+ years of mission

Slide: 17EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites ASCAT Ocean wind products Ocean and Sea Ice SAF produces operational ASCAT wind vectors at 25 km and 12.5 km spatial sampling ASCAT wind speed product visualisation, 28/10/2009

Slide: 18EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites Monitoring the oceans Jason-2 launched in June 2008 is EUMETSAT’s first optional programme on ocean altimetry. has enabled EUMETSAT to extend its expertise in data and product dissemination for weather forecasting and climate monitoring through the inclusion of data in support of marine meteorology, operational oceanography, seasonal prediction and climate monitoring.

Slide: 19EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites Jason-2 Significant Wave Height Product Global comparison between Ku-Band and ECMWF wave model (WAM) first-guess SWH values (ECMWF, From 01 August to 31 October 2008) Jason-1Jason-2

Slide: 20EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites Jason-2 Wind speed product Global comparison between altimeter and ECMWF model analysis wind speed values (ECMWF, From 01 August to 31 October 2008) Jason-1Jason-2

Slide: 21EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites Jason-2 Sign. Wave Height Visualisation 13 April 2010 From: HansPeter Roesli m Jason-2

Slide: 22EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites Satellite Application Facilities (SAFs) in Europe Cooperating StateMember State Support to Nowcasting and Very Short Range Forecasting Ocean and Sea Ice Climate Monitoring Numerical Weather Prediction Land Surface Analysis Ozone and Atmospheric Chemistry Monitoring GRAS Meteorology Support to Operational Hydrology and Water Management SAF Consortium Member Additional Met Service Users

Slide: 23EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites Ocean and Sea Ice SAF The Ocean and Sea Ice SAF develops, processes and distributes, in real time, products related to four key parameters of the ocean-atmosphere interface: Sea-surface temperature Surface radiative fluxes Sea ice Wind

Slide: 24EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites OSI SAF: Operational SST Products Ocean model Atmospheric model OSI SAF GRIB Operational SST Products OSI SAF Operational L2P SST Products "EUMETSAT Ocean and Sea Ice SAF products are addressing both the NWP and Ocean Communities"

Slide: 25EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites Operational Sea Ice Products OSI SAF Sea Ice Products: Various regions, various formats edge concentration type Ocean model Atmospheric model

Slide: 26EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites Justification for Training Satellite data are extremely expensive Satellites are rather short living systems Satellite data should be used as soon as available The data have be used optimally User communities should profit from the data, including those from developing countries TRAINING is one of the instruments to achieve these objectives

Slide: 27EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites Training EUMETSAT Training mandate: Decided by Council 5 years training plans, current plan –Member States and Cooperating States –Africa (as recommended by Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites) –Others: S-America, E-Europe, etc on case by case basis Taken into account WMO recommendations

Slide: 28EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites Training Subjects: Meteorology: nowcasting, severe weather, natural disasters Climate Applications Oceanography Land Applications Atmospheric chemistry and air quality Hydrology and water management

Slide: 29EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites Training Partners: Training institutes of the Member States Satellite Application Facilities (SAF) EUMETCal and EUMETrain Following WMO Vlab concept The WMO Centres of Excellence: IMTR, EAMAC, SAWS, Russia, Oman, Beijing, Barbados, Costa Rica, etc Training Institutes with specific expertise: –Universities, ITC, IOC/IODE Development of training material: –EUMETrain, EUMETCal, COMET

Slide: 30EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites Training Strategy Free of charge Traditional Class room courses, workshops On-line courses and presentations Thematic on-line presentations: –Mediterranean Week, Convection week, Dust week, etc. Distribution of training material: –Harddisc, dvd, ftp, through EUMETCast

Slide: 31EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites Training Strategy Grouping of communities: –Subjects: Nowcasting, Climate, Oceanography –Regional: NOMEK, DAWBEE, –Language: French Africa, English Africa –Training managed with Moodle at: –Training.eumetsat.int

Slide: 32EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites Training on Oceanography Early stage of training activities on oceanography First course co-organised with NOAA/IOC-IODE –Ostend, Dec –Very successful Second course in early stage of organisation Identifying partners for training events for Member and Cooperating States Coordinated with OSI SAF

Slide: 33EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites Target group operational forecasters and researchers S-Hemisphere Global Maritime Distress Safety System (GMDSS) forecasting centres Countries represented: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Fiji, India, Mauritius and South Africa Lecturers: USA, France, Norway, the Netherlands, New- Zealand, Belgium and EUMETSAT Satellites: METOP, Jason -1, -2, QuikScat Instruments: ASCAT, Theory of RS applied to oceanography Performances and limitations Feedback from participants: much appreciated Use of Satellite Wind and Wave Products for Marine Forecasting, IOC/IODE, Ostend, Dec 2009

Slide: 34EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites Use of Satellite Wind and Wave Products for Marine Forecasting, IOC/IODE, Ostend, Dec 2009

Slide: 35EUMETSAT Programme status and future activites Conclusion Thank you for your attention