Meteosat Images of Northern Atlantic, Europe and North Africa

Introduction

Meteosat-7 and its predecessors were the first generation of earth observation dedicated geostationary satellites located at 36000 km above the intersection of the Equator and the Greenwich Meridian. Although superseded by MSG-1 (renamed Meteosat-8) in 2005, Meteosat-7 remained as back-up at 0^o longitude until 14th June 2006. Meteosat-7 will be moved to 63^oE longitude to continue coverage of the Indian Ocean and take over from Meteosat-5.

Meteosat-7 was launched by the European Space Agency and operated by Eumetsat. Data were collected every half hour in three wavelength channels for visible, infra-red and water vapour images.

Data

Data held at the BADC
The Data held at the BADC are images of that portion of the Meteosat view field encompassing Northern Atlantic, Europe and North Africa, in all available channels (visible, thermal and water vapour infra-red bands). From 11^th of November 1999 until 31^st October 2002 these images were daily mirrored from the Meteosat archive at the University of Nottingham. The images include zooms of Northern Atlantic and Europe in the visible band and are provided in JPEG format. Images were received in this way until a technical fault at Nottingham resulted in the service being suspended.
Full-disc images of the Meteosat view field were subsequently received from the Eumetsat archive in Germany. Visible, infra-red and water vapour, full-disk GIF-format images are available from 27th August 2003 until 14th June 2006. Jpeg images covering orthern Atlantic, Europe and North Africa have been obtained from EUMETSAT to fill the gap in the archive between October 2002 and August 2003.
Access to data
Meteosat data files are directly accessible from here through our data browser. Alternatively, you can retrieve them by anonymous FTP. If you need help on downloading the data from the Web or transferring them via FTP, please refer to our Help section.

All Meteosat images in our archive are subject to EUMETSAT copyright. It is a condition of data use that all images used should include EUMETSAT's copyright credit displaying the text "Copyright <year> EUMETSAT" on each image.

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Links to further information and data

Eumetsat in Darmstadt.
The primary source of information on Meteosat and Meteosat Second Generation (MSG), Eumetsat also offers a range of services including a developing Meteorological Archive and Retrieval Facility (MARF).
Meteosat at the University of Nottingham.
This site no longer receives data but retains and archive of previous images as well as links to other sources of information.
Meteosat Second Generation at the European Space Agency.

Contacts

For queries about these pages and difficulties in data retrieval, please contact the BADC help desk.
About Meteosat operations: see the EUMETSAT help desk web pages.

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