Slide: 1EUM/MET/VWG/09/135 5 th World Water Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, 21 March 2009 EUMETSAT Monitoring weather and climate from space Dr. Dieter Klaes, EUMETSAT on behalf of Dr. Lars Prahm, Director General, EUMETSAT

Slide: 2EUM/MET/VWG/09/135 5 th World Water Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, 21 March 2009 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: 3EUM/MET/VWG/09/135 5 th World Water Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, 21 March 2009 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: 4EUM/MET/VWG/09/135 5 th World Water Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, 21 March 2009 Slovak Republic Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France GermanyGreece Ireland Italy United Kingdom Turkey Switzerland Sweden Spain Portugal NorwayThe Netherlands Luxembourg Croatia Poland* Hungary Latvia* Slovenia 24* Member States & 6 Cooperating States Member States Romania Czech Republic Lithuania Bulgaria Estonia Iceland Cooperating States * Pending full ratification

Slide: 5EUM/MET/VWG/09/135 5 th World Water Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, 21 March 2009 Global meteorological satellite system

Slide: 6EUM/MET/VWG/09/135 5 th World Water Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, 21 March 2009 Overview of the EUMETSAT ground segment Data acquisition and Control Pre-processing EUMETSAT HQ Meteorological Products Extraction EUMETSAT HQ Darmstadt Unified Meteorological Archive and Retrieval Facility (U-MARF) EUMETSAT HQ Darmstadt Data Dissemination via EUMETCast Applications Ground Segment EUMETSAT Geostationary Systems Meteosat satellites EUMETSAT Polar System Metop satellites Other Data Sources Centralised processing and generation of products Decentralised processing and generation of products USERS Jason-2 Optional Programme for Ocean Altimetry SATELLITE APPLICATION FACILITIES within the Member States

Slide: 7EUM/MET/VWG/09/135 5 th World Water Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, 21 March Member State Cooperating 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 Satellite Application Facilities (SAFs) in Europe

Slide: 8EUM/MET/VWG/09/135 5 th World Water Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, 21 March 2009 Potential H-SAF products Precipitation actual precipitation rate accumulated precipitation Soil Moisture surface soil moisture drought/ soil water index soil moisture in the roots regions Snow cover snow recognition snow coverage area snow water equivalent both on flat and mountain areas Validation determination of optimum product according to the needs of operational hydrological services validation of final products with the use of hydrological models Sorani, 2007

Slide: 9EUM/MET/VWG/09/135 5 th World Water Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, 21 March 2009 Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) consists of a series of four geostationary weather satellites, along with ground-based infrastructure. The system will operate consecutively until Meteosat-8 (in operation since 2004) and Meteosat-9 (in operation since 2006), provide important image data on European weather on a daily basis, every 15 minutes through 12 spectral bands. MSG image data is used for weather forecasting, bringing major improvements in Nowcasting applications and Numerical Weather Prediction, and for climate monitoring and research. Geostationary satellites

Slide: 10EUM/MET/VWG/09/135 5 th World Water Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, 21 March 2009 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: 11EUM/MET/VWG/09/135 5 th World Water Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, 21 March 2009 MPE products to the internet

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Slide: 13EUM/MET/VWG/09/135 5 th World Water Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, 21 March 2009 LEO System: The EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS)  First European LEO weather satellite system;  Series of 3 Metop satellites;  Payload: 8 Major meteorological instruments;  Operational coverage until 2020;  Metop-A launched October 2006 Metop-A data is of unprecedented accuracy and significantly contributes to the Global Observing System and the monitoring of climate and atmospheric chemistry. Usage: Numerical Weather Prediction models, Cloud Detection, Climate monitoring, Atmospheric Chemistry and radiation budget components

Slide: 14EUM/MET/VWG/09/135 5 th World Water Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, 21 March 2009 LEO System: EPS: The Metop Satellite The Metop Sensors: AVHRR: a visible & Infrared imager HIRS : an infra-red sounder AMSU-A: a microwave sounder MHS: a microwave Humidity sounder IASI : a hyperspectral infra-red sounder GOME : a UV/Visible/Near IR spectrometer ASCAT : a scatterometer radar GRAS : a radio-occultation limb sounder

Slide: 15EUM/MET/VWG/09/135 5 th World Water Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, 21 March 2009 …and rain rate /mm/h…

Slide: 16EUM/MET/VWG/09/135 5 th World Water Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, 21 March 2009 Day-2 products: Example for Soil moisture product: Pre-operational ! Zoltan Bartalis, 2008

Slide: 17EUM/MET/VWG/09/135 5 th World Water Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, 21 March 2009 Examples from the OSI SAF Web-page

Slide: 18EUM/MET/VWG/09/135 5 th World Water Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, 21 March 2009 Monitoring the oceans Jason-2 Jason-2 – which was launched in June 2008 from Vandenberg, California - is EUMETSAT’s first optional programme on ocean altimetry. With Jason-2, EUMETSAT has extended its expertise in data and product dissemination for weather forecasting and climate monitoring to include data in support of marine meteorology, operational oceanography, seasonal prediction and climate monitoring.

Slide: 19EUM/MET/VWG/09/135 5 th World Water Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, 21 March 2009 Courtesy of Remko Scharroo, NOAA/NESDIS Since 1992, the mean rate from satellite altimetry has been ~3.1 mm/yr While data from all satellite altimeters were used, the high-accuracy T/P & Jason missions were critical to calibrate the others.

Slide: 20EUM/MET/VWG/09/135 5 th World Water Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, 21 March 2009 Thank you for your attention !

Slide: 21EUM/MET/VWG/09/135 5 th World Water Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, 21 March 2009 EUMETSAT Monitoring weather and climate from space