Metop-C Satellite Mission Summary

Metop-C Mission

Objectives and Applications

Meteorology, climatology.

Mission Summary

Full Name

Meteorological Operational Polar Satellite - C
aka Metop-3

Mission Status

Operational (nominal)

Mission Agencies

EUMETSAT , CNES , ESA , NOAA

Launch Date

07 Nov 2018

Mission Links

mission site | data access portal

EOL Date

Dec 2027

EO Portal Info

Orbit Details

Orbit Type

Sun-synchronous

Orbit Period

101.4 minutes

Orbit Sense

Descending

Orbit Inclination

98.7 deg

Orbit Altitude

824 km

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

9:30

Repeat Cycle

29 days

NORAD Catalog #

43689 (TLE)

International Designator

2018-087A

Mission Instruments

A-DCS3 - Argos Advanced Data Collection System3

AMSU-A - Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A

ASCAT - Advanced Scatterometer

AVHRR/3 - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3

GOME-2 - Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment - 2

GRAS - Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Receiver for Atmospheric Sounding

IASI - Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer

MHS - Microwave Humidity Sounder

SEM (POES) - Space Environment Monitor

Mission Measurements

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Aerosols	AVHRR/3, GOME-2, IASI
	Atmospheric Humidity Fields	AMSU-A, GOME-2, GRAS, IASI, MHS
	Atmospheric Winds	IASI
	Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature	AMSU-A, AVHRR/3, GOME-2, IASI, MHS
	Cloud particle properties and profile	AMSU-A, MHS
	Liquid water and precipitation rate	AMSU-A, AVHRR/3, MHS
	Ozone	GOME-2, IASI
	Radiation budget	AMSU-A, AVHRR/3, GOME-2, IASI
	Trace gases (excluding ozone)	IASI
	Atmospheric Temperature Fields	AMSU-A, GRAS, IASI
Land	Albedo and reflectance	AVHRR/3
	Soil moisture	AMSU-A, ASCAT
	Vegetation	AVHRR/3
	Surface temperature (land)	AMSU-A, AVHRR/3, IASI
	Multi-purpose imagery (land)	AVHRR/3
Ocean	Ocean surface winds	AMSU-A, ASCAT
	Surface temperature (ocean)	AVHRR/3, IASI
	Multi-purpose imagery (ocean)	AVHRR/3
Snow & Ice	Snow cover, edge and depth	AMSU-A, AVHRR/3
	Sea ice cover, edge and thickness	AMSU-A, ASCAT, AVHRR/3

Featured Datasets

NOAA POES and METOP Local Area Coverage Imagery
Jan-2019

This collection is composed of AVHRR Level 1B products (1.1 km) reprocessed from the NOAA POES and Metop AVHRR sensors data acquired at the University of Dundee and University of Bern ground stations and from the ESA and University of Bern data historical archive. The data collection covers Europe and the neighbouring regions in the period of 1 January 1981 to 31 December 2019. Access is provided through the ESA TPM scheme. - Read more