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Watching the

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Monitoring

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Keeping

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Climate

monitoring

from

space

The place to learn about monitoring the weather and climate from space

  • Spacecraft

    Find out all about Europe's fleet of weather satellites

  • Weather

    Everything you need to know about watching the weather from space, plus see a real-time view of the Earth from 36,000 km

  • Atmosphere

    Whether it's monitoring air quality, fires, dust storms or the ozone layer, satellites are involved...

  • Oceans

    Above and below the waves - discover how satellites are helping to monitor the world's oceans

  • Climate

    Weather satellites play a big role in monitoring climate change - find out more...

Featured Posts

Global Ocean Colour - 2017
18 July 2018 With 0 Comments

This fascinating video, narrated by Hayley Evers-King (Marine Earth Observation Scientist at Plymouth Marine Lab) highlights a year of ocean ...

 

Sentinel-3B launch recap
18 July 2018 With 0 Comments

Remember the Sentinel-3B satellite launch? This fine piece of machinery has been up in orbit for more than two months now! It joined its twi ...

 

Year of Weather 2017
23 February 2018 With 0 Comments

On Monday 19 February we published our annual Year of Weather animation, showing all of the major weather events across the globe in 2017 as ...

Latest Posts

Meet the Satellite - Jason-3
7 June 2019 With 0 Comments

In this new instalment of our “Meet the Satellite” video series, Benjamin Loveday, Marine Earth Observation Scientist at Plymouth Marine Lab ...

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Meet the Satellite - Sentinel-3
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Meet the Satellite - Sentinel-3
29 May 2019 With 0 Comments

As part of the Copernicus Programme, the two Sentinel-3 satellites, A and B, are tasked with monitoring the oceans and land from space. ...

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Learn all about atmosphere monitoring
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Learn all about atmosphere monitoring
20 May 2019 With 0 Comments

As you may know, last year we ran a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC), together with the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), on ...

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EUMETSAT social media takeover by our recent work experience students
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EUMETSAT social media takeover by our recent work experience students
9 May 2019 With 0 Comments

We’ve been hosting two Prakitikantinnen (work experience students) within our Strategy, Communication and International Relations Division ( ...

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