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Meteosat Geostationary Satellites First Generation: Water vapour infra-red wavelength images over Europe and North Atlantic (Jan 2000-Aug 2003)
Meteosat-7 and its predecessors were the first generation of earth observation dedicated geostationary satellites located at 36000 km above the intersection of the Equator and the Greenwich Meridian. Although superseded by MSG-1 (renamed Meteosat-8) in 2005, Meteosat-7 remained as back-up at 0o longitude until 14th June 2006. Meteosat-7 will be moved to 63oE longitude to continue coverage of the Indian Ocean and take over from Meteosat-5.
Meteosat-7 was launched by the European Space Agency and operated by Eumetsat.
This dataset contains water vapour images from Meteosat Geostationary Satellites First Generation satellites over Europe and the North Atlantic.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2000-12-10T15:46:38
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2000-12-10T15:46:38
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 61e1a2d0af964682af3f041d4425b6ec
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned
- Update scope
- dataset
- Keywords
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- MSG
- water vapour
- Satellites
- Europe
- North Atlanic
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2000-01-12T00:00:00
- End date
- 2003-08-31T22:59:59
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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Images are JPG formatted
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Images are JPG formatted
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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- Quality Scope
- dataset
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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The Data held at the BADC are images of that portion of the Meteosat view field encompassing Northern Atlantic, Europe and North Africa, in all available channels (visible, thermal and water vapour infra-red bands). From 11th of November 1999 until 31st October 2002 these images were daily mirrored from the Meteosat archive at the University of Nottingham. The images include zooms of Northern Atlantic and Europe in the visible band and are provided in JPEG format.
Images were received in this way until a technical fault at Nottingham resulted in the service being suspended.
Full-disc images of the Meteosat view field were subsequently received from the Eumetsat archive in Germany. Jpeg images covering Northern Atlantic, Europe and North Africa have been obtained from EUMETSAT to fill the gap in the archive between October 2002 and August 2003.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 61e1a2d0af964682af3f041d4425b6ec XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Parent identifier
- Meteosat Geostationary Satellites First Generation: Visible, Infra-Red and Water Vapour Images over Europe 531384467ff3af2b468b668f405104e1
- Resource type
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2023-01-26T00:20:23
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
