by A number of satellites are to be accepted into space over the next 15 years in order to “save life” and to give an increasingly extreme weather of early warning, experts said.
The project for the second generation of Metop aims to make the weather forecast more precisely by providing more detailed information for predictive models that flow into MET Office data.
The first satellite, Metop-SG A1, will be launched on Wednesday from French Guayana and collect data on weather patterns next year.
The European organization for the exploitation of meteorological satellites (Eumetsat) and the European Space Agency lead the project, in which six satellites are transferred to an orbit with low earth.
The project hopes to improve short -term and long -term forecasts, which will also help scientists to monitor extreme weather worldwide.
Phil Evans, General Director of Eumetsat, said the new satellites would help save lives by predicting increasing extreme weather before it happens.
He said: “In the past 40 years, extreme weather has cost hundreds of billions of euros and tens of thousands of human life – storms such as Boris, Daniel and Hans, record heat and violent forest fires are just the latest memories.
“The start of Metop-SG A1 is an important step forward to enable national weather services in our Member States to save sharper tools to save lives, protect property and to build up resistance to the climate crisis.”
After use, the satellites in Europe and the worldwide improved forecasts for up to 10 days in advance could see.
The data can also help short-term forecasts and enable experts to recognize the Tell-Tale signs of early storm development and other weather events with a high impact, especially in higher widths.
On the satellite there is a tracker named The Copernicus Sentinel 5 Mission, which is mainly used to monitor air quality and long -term climate monitoring.
The satellite is stationed about 800 km above the earth and completes a full orbit every 100 minutes. It goes near the north and south poles, so that he can take pictures of the entire globe during the day.
