Meteosat Third Generation (MTG): Continuation and Innovation of Observations from Geostationary Orbit

Scenes Analysis for the Meteosat Third Generation Infrared Sounder Observations

The Meteosat Third Generation Infrared Sounder

This paper considers only the IRS mission, for which the highest priority is on atmospheric dynamics in support to Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) at regional and global scales. This will be achieved through the provision of Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMV), to be extracted from tracking of horizontally and vertically resolved water vapour patterns, retrieved from the hyperspectral radiances...

MTG: resolution enhancement for MW measurements from geostationary orbits

The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate image processing techniques that improve the spatial resolution of the channels already selected in the preliminary studies for “Geostationary Observatory for Microwave Atmospheric Soundings (GOMAS)”. Reference high resolution multifrequency brightness temperatures scenarios have been derived by applying radiative transfer calculation to the ...

Monitoring tropospheric pollution using infrared spectroscopy from geostationary orbit

This paper presents the Geostationary Fourier Imaging Spectrometer (GeoFIS), a new satellite instrument that has been proposed to monitor tropospheric key pollutants (O3, CO) in order to improve the predictive capability of tropospheric chemistry models. The horizontal resolution of GeoFIS is about 15× 15 km2 and the temporal resolution is about 60 minutes. It is shown that the current instrume...

Determination of circumsolar radiation from Meteosat Second Generation

Reliable data on circumsolar radiation, which is caused by scattering of sunlight by cloud or aerosol particles, is becoming more and more important for the resource assessment and design of concentrating solar technologies (CSTs). However, measuring circumsolar radiation is demanding and only very limited data sets are available. As a step to bridge this gap, a method was developed which allow...