Meteosat-11 Satellite Mission Summary

CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - Meteosat-11 -

Full Name

Meteosat Second Generation-4
aka MSG-4

Status

Operational (nominal)

Mission Agencies

EUMETSAT , ESA

Launch Date

15 Jul 2015

Mission Links

mission site | data access portal

EOL Date

Dec 2033

EO Portal Info

NORAD Catalog #

40732 (TLE)

International Designator

2015-034A

Orbit Type

Geostationary

Orbit Period

1436 minutes

Orbit Sense

N/A

Orbit Inclination

0 deg

Orbit Altitude

35779 km

Orbit Longitude

9.5 deg

Orbit LST

Repeat Cycle

Objectives and Applications

Meteorology, climatology, atmospheric dynamics/water and energy cycles. Meteosat 1-7 are first generation. Meteosat 8-11 are second generation and known as MSG in the development phase.

Mission Measurements

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Atmospheric Humidity Fields	SEVIRI
	Atmospheric Winds	SEVIRI
	Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature	SEVIRI
	Liquid water and precipitation rate	SEVIRI
	Ozone	SEVIRI
	Radiation budget	GERB, SEVIRI
	Atmospheric Temperature Fields	SEVIRI
Land	Vegetation	SEVIRI
	Surface temperature (land)	SEVIRI
Ocean	Surface temperature (ocean)	SEVIRI

Mission Instruments

GERB - Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget

MSG Comms - Communications package for MSG

SEVIRI - Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infra-Red Imager

OpenSearch Datasets

Selected IDN OpenSearch Results (search all 3 )
GHRSST Level 4 K10_SST Global 10 km Analyzed Sea Surface Temperature from Naval Oceanographic Office ... $This is a Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) Level 4 sea surface temperature (SST) analysis dataset produced daily on an operational basis by the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO) on a global 0.1x0.1 degree grid. The K10 (NAVO 10-km gridded SST analyzed product) L4 analysis uses SST observations from the following instruments: Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), and Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager (SEVIRI). The AVHRR data for this comes from the MetOp-A, MetOp-B, and NOAA-19 satellites; VIIRS data is sourced from the Suomi_NPP satellite; SEVIRI data comes from the Meteosat-8 and -11 satellites. The age (time-lag), reliability, and resolution of the data are used in the weighted average with the analysis tuned to represent SST at a reference depth of 1-meter. Input data from the AVHRR Pathfinder 9km climatology dataset (1985-1999) is used when no new satellite SST retrievals are available after 34 days. Comparing with its predecessor (DOI: https://doi.org/10.5067/GHK10-L4N01 ), this updated dataset has no major changes in Level-4 interpolated K10 algorithm, except for using different satellite instrument data, and updating metadata and file format. The major updates include: (a) updated and enhanced the granule-level metadata information, (b) converted the SST file from GHRSST Data Specification (GDS) v1.0 to v2.0, (c) added the sea_ice_fraction variable to the product, and (d) updated the filename convention to reflect compliance with GDS v2.0.$
SatCORPS CERES GEO Edition 4 Meteosat-11 Northern Hemisphere Version 1.2

SatCORPS CERES GEO Edition 4 Meteosat-11 Southern Hemisphere Version 1.2

Selected FedEO OpenSearch Results (view all 24 results: browser , table )
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: SNU, DWD for COSMO-CLM evaluation, climate service, regional climate modelling...

CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Study of small, regional, and large scale cloud processes regional climate mo...

CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Land data assimilation Climate monitoring: GCOS ECV Climate monitoring of land...

CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Study of small, regional, and large scale cloud processes regional climate mo...

NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of Northern Hemisphere (NH) Snow Cover Extent (SCE), Version 1. CLIMA...

CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Land data assimilation Climate monitoring: GCOS ECV Climate monitoring of land...

CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Study of small, regional, and large scale cloud processes regional climate mo...

CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: SNU, DWD for COSMO-CLM evaluation, climate service, regional climate modelling...

CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Land data assimilation Climate monitoring: GCOS ECV Climate monitoring of land...

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