The ESA of the European Space Agency has taken the first step in a “Revolution for the weather forecast” on Tuesday. The new weather satellite “Meteosat third generation Soounder-1” (MTG-S1) was sent to the room.
With approximately 36,000 kilometers from the infrared noise, the data about temperature, humidity and trace gases must collect. This can help to recognize and predict quickly developing and possibly dangerous weather conditions. “By absorbing infrared channels every half hour, we can cut the air into layers (…) so that meteorologists see exactly what is happening at every height,” said Tobias Guggenmoser of the ESA.
The satellite is a real innovation. Because according to ESA Europe has only had an imager, satellites with illustrative instruments, but not through a sound with spectroscopic instruments. The rocket developed by the ESA on behalf of the Eumetsat satellite operators will “bring a revolution for the weather forecast and climate observation in Europe”.
Discover thunderstorms before the cloud shape
Before MTG-S1 went into space, an imager had already started space from the satellite series. Another will follow in the coming year and complete the constellation. Together these three instruments should see the origin of thunderstorms before clouds even form form and storm warnings. For a mountainous country like Austria, the new data has a huge potential to improve regional, small -scale predictions and ultimately for disaster protection, the most recently said by Geosphere Austria.
Instrument to observe air pollution is floating
On the plane launched by the Kennedy Space Center in Florida using a Falcon 9 Carrier Rocket from the American company SpaceX, the Santellit Sentinel-4 of the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS) is also on observation of air quality. The instrument checks the composition of the atmosphere, for example with a view to ozone and nitrogen dioxide, and is intended to offer more precise information about air pollution in Europe.
Source: Krone
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