CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - Meteosat-2 -
Full Name Meteosat-2 Status Mission complete
Mission Agencies ESA Launch Date 19 Jun 1981
Mission Links mission site EOL Date 02 Dec 1991
EO Portal Info NORAD Catalog # 12544 (TLE)
International Designator 1981-057A
Orbit Type Geostationary Orbit Period
Orbit Sense TBD Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude 36000 km Orbit Longitude 0 deg
Orbit LST Repeat Cycle
Objectives and Applications Meteorology, climatology.
Mission Measurements
Mission Instruments
OpenSearch Datasets Selected IDN OpenSearch Results (search all 8 )
Global Data Base of Monthly Mean Cloud and Surface Properties
Global radiation at the Earth-surface derived from METEOSAT-data (DWD-Archive) from 1994 on.
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Stage B3 Reduced Radiances in Native Forma ...
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Stage D1 3-Hourly Cloud Products - Revised ...
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Stage D2 Monthly Cloud Products - Revised ...
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Stage DX Pixel Level Cloud Product - Revis ...
Past and Present Weather Data and Analysis Software from Unidata via WWW
Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Release 3.0 Shortwave 3 hourly monthly UTC data in netcdf format

Selected FedEO OpenSearch Results (view all 37 results: browser , table )
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: SNU, DWD for COSMO-CLM evaluation, climate service, regional climate modelling...
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Climate research NMHSs Government agencies GERB science team
NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Ar...
SARAH 1. CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Climate impact analysis (DWD,EURO4M,PIK) Climate model evaluation and...
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Climate research NMHSs Government agencies GERB science team
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Land data assimilation Climate monitoring: GCOS ECV Climate monitoring of land...
Meteosat Surface Albedo - MFG - 0 degree. CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Boundary Condition For Climate Model...
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Climate impact analysis (DWD,EURO4M,PIK) Climate model evaluation and developm...
SARAH 1. CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Climate impact analysis (DWD,EURO4M,PIK) Climate model evaluation and...
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Product is used for assimilation into NWP models for global and regional reana...

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