Satellites can help us understand large-scale features high up in the atmosphere and all over the world. The transport of dust from the Sahara Desert across the Atlantic Ocean has a broad range of effects, many of whi ...
Read MoreSatellites can carry out multiple jobs by carrying different instruments and transponders on board. Metop is one of a range of polar-orbiting satellites used by the Argos system to relay radio signals that can help study ...
Read MoreEUMETSAT has been running a fleet of meteorological satellites, providing weather and climate data, for more than 25 years. The satellites are operated in two main orbits: Metop has a polar orbit 817km above the Earth, a ...
Read MoreHurricanes are large tropical storms - similar storms in different parts of the world are known as hurricanes, typhoons, or cyclones. They develop over warm water and have very high wind and heavy rainfall. Hurricanes al ...
Read MoreEl Niño is the name given to a climatic event when temperature increases in the Pacific Ocean influence tropical rainfall and other weather patterns around the world. Episodes of cooler temperatures in the Pacific are re ...
Read MoreThe US Space Agency, NASA, has created a range of quizzes to test your knowledge of planet Earth. The agency created the websites Know Your Earth and Earth Right Now to remind people how much Earth observation is done by ...
Read MoreWeather forecasts rely on data from satellites - and often images which don't look particularly spectacular can yield important data about the physical processes in the atmosphere at different times. Some instruments abo ...
Read MoreThe United Kingdom, Ireland, and Austria are among the countries to have been visited by dust from the Sahara desert in late March and early April. The dust travelled high in the atmosphere before falling or being washed ...
Read MoreEUMETSAT opened its doors to a group of 21 young women for Germany's annual Girls' Day. The participants, aged 11 to 14, spent the day at Headquarters in Darmstadt, learning about the organisation's role in providing wea ...
Read MoreInterview with Anne O'Carroll. What does your job as a remote sensing scientist in EUMETSAT's Ocean Team involve? My role focuses on measuring the temperature of the sea’s surface using data from infra-red instrume ...
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