Validation of a Meteosat Second Generation solar radiation dataset over the northeastern Iberian Peninsula

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...

Meteosat Second Generation Cirrus Detection Algorithm MeCiDA

Digging the METEOSAT Treasure - 3 Decades of Solar Surface Radiation

Solar surface radiation data of high quality is essential for the appropriate monitoring and analysis of the Earth’s radiation budget and the climate system. Further, they are crucial for the efficient planning and operation of solar energy systems. However, well maintained surface measurements are rare in many regions of the world and over the oceans. There, satellite derived information is th...

Rotation of the iberian peninsula.

Jones and Ewing (1) have presented seismic profiler data from the Bay of Biscay which allows a 120 anticlockwise rotation of the Iberian peninsula between Eocene and Middle to Upper Miocene times. They refer several times to the fact that this va'ue is appreciably less than a rotation of 220, which they believe resulted from our paleomagnetic study of the Lisbon Volcanics (2). We must point out...

The Image Processing Facility for METEOSAT Second Generation

The first METEOSAT Second Generation satellite will come into service in 2001. It will acquire image data in 12 spectral channels with a total data volume of 265 Mbytes every 15 minutes. These data are received, processed, and distributed by the EUMETSAT Ground Segment in real-time. The Ground Segment architecture is composed of blocks of grouped functionality called facilities. The Image Proce...