Meteosat Second Generation (MSG)

General Info

Title:	Meteosat Second Generation (MSG)
Type:	Data Entity
Sub-Type:	Measurement
Abbreviation:	msg
Publication State:	published
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URI:	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dataent_msg

Summary
A brief description of the data.

Images and LRIT data from Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellite's SEVIRI instrument.

Content
The actual data being described by this document. NB, in the case of data granules, this content may just be a reference to an ingested CSML or CDML file.

Introduction

Meteosat Second Generation is operated by EUMETSAT and provides almost continuous images to meteorologists and researchers in Europe and around the world. It incorporates significant enhancements in frequency and resolution to the previous generation of Meteosat. MSG measures in 12 spectral channels (compared to only 3 on the previous Meteosat) and records data in a 15 minute cycle (30 minutes on the previous Meteosat). The resolution of the high-resolution visible light channel measures 1 km at the sub-satellite point (compared to 2.5 km on the previous Meteosat).

The first Meteosat Second Generation satellite, MSG-1, came into operational service on 29th January 2004 and was renamed Meteosat-8. MSG-1 has a nominal lifetime of seven years. MSG-2 was launched on 21st December 2005 and future MSG units are planned.

The MSG payload also contains the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) instrument which provides important data for climate research. Data from the GERB instrument is now available at the BADC.

A humanitarian Search and Rescue transponder that relays distress signals from ships, aircraft and others in need of rescue is also mounted on the MSG platform.

Access Restrictions

Full Resolution Met Office Images and LRIT data
Access to these data is restricted to UK academic users who have applied for and been granted access. Apply for access.

Non-UK based users should contact the Meteorological Office in their own country to obtain the data - as each country (Europe at least) has its own agreement with EUMETSAT.

Lower resolution EUMETSAT web images

These are publicly available - no registration required.

Data availability

There are three types of MSG data available at the BADC

Full Resolution Met Office Images

MSG images and products from the Met Office are now archived at the BADC and are available to registered UK academic users. This includes visible, infra-red, water vapour, High Resolution Visible (HRV) images and the derived cloud top height, cloud top temperature, fog, snow detection, and volcanic ash products. These images are available for a range of geographical areas. Images are available from March 2005 onwards at a frequency of 15 minutes (some are hourly) and are at least 24 hours old. A table of the available products and coverage gives links to the appropriate archive directories. Further details of the images are available here. Images are provided on best-effort basis and it is not possible to fill any gaps.

For specific measurement campaigns these images may be available in near-real time. Each project is considered separately - please contact the BADC.

Full resolution images archive

products and coverage table

All Full resolution MSG images in our archive are subject to EUMETSAT/Met Office copyright.
It is a condition of data use that all images used should include EUMETSAT's copyright credit displaying
the text "Copyright EUMETSAT/Met Office" on each image.

Lower resolution EUMETSAT web images

Whilst recent images are publicly available via EUMETSAT's own website, they are only accessible for 3 days after measurement. A longer term store of these images has been created at the BADC to enable easy access to older images - these are also publicly available. The images are taken hourly and coverage includes most of Europe and part of North Africa. Four channels are available: visible(0.6nm), IR(3.9nm), IR(10.6nm) and water vapour(6.2nm).

Lower resolution web images archive

These lower resolution images should be credited "Copyright EUMETSAT" on each image.

LRIT data

Full resolution LRIT (Low Rate Information Transmission) data - comprising of 5 spectral channels every 30 minutes -is available from the BADC to UK academics subject to certain access conditions. This data is in EUMETSAT's own data format.

LRIT data archive

Links to further information and references

Full resolution Met Office images at the BADC

Lower resolution EUMETSAT web images archive at the BADC
LRIT data archive at the BADC
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).
Latest public MSG images from EUMETSAT.
GERB Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget instrument.

Citation

Date of citation

Who to contact

For queries about these pages and difficulties in data retrieval, please contact the BADC Support Line.
About Meteosat operations: the EUMETSAT organisation at ops@eumetsat.de.

Quality Statement
Description of the relative quality of the dataset.

Operational satellite data.

Author
The principal author of the actual underlying data. Only one author can be specified per atom; if there are multiple authors, these should be specified as 'contributors'. NB, an atom MUST have an author specified.

Name	email
EUMETSAT	http://www.eumetsat.int/

Online References
Online references with a specific relationship to the data being described here. NB, if links are supplied they must be valid and include the transport protocol - e.g. 'http://blah.co.uk'. Also, note, three online references can be added at once; after these are added a further three may be specified - and so on.

Relation	Title
Download	MSG Data Directory
Documentation	EUMETSAT website
Documentation	BADC Doc: MSG products and coverage
Documentation	BADC Doc: MSG Documentation
Apply for access	Apply for access to MSG images
Logo	MSG Logo

Parent Data Entity
Define the parent of this record. There should probably only be one parent, but this is not enforced.

No data specified at present

Sub Data Entities
Lists all entities which have the current entity as their parent.

None

Associated Deployments

Parameters - summary

INFRAREDIMAGERY	INFRAREDWAVELENGTHS	ENGINEERING	SPECTRAL
EARTHSCIENCE	EARTH SCIENCE	NULL	MICROWAVEIMAGERY
MICROWAVE	VISIBLEIMAGERY	VISIBLEWAVELENGTHS	CLOUDTOPTEMPERATURE
CLOUDS	ATMOSPHERE	ESTIMATES	SNOWCOVER
ICE	SNOW	CRYOSPHERE	DUST
VOLCANICASH	VOLCANOES	SOLIDEARTH	CLOUDHEIGHT

Parameters - details
Parameters to describe the data - with vocab URL and term IDs for further classification. Note, three parameters can be added at once; after these are added a further three may be specified - and so on.

Label	Vocab Term URL	Vocab Term ID
INFRAREDIMAGERY	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
INFRAREDWAVELENGTHS	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
ENGINEERING	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
SPECTRAL	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141	NULL
EARTHSCIENCE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P131	NULL
EARTH SCIENCE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P111	GCAT0001
NULL	general_units	0
MICROWAVEIMAGERY	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
MICROWAVE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
VISIBLEIMAGERY	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
VISIBLEWAVELENGTHS	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
CLOUDTOPTEMPERATURE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
CLOUDS	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
ATMOSPHERE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141	NULL
ESTIMATES	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
SNOWCOVER	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
ICE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
SNOW	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
CRYOSPHERE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141	NULL
DUST	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
VOLCANICASH	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
VOLCANOES	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
SOLIDEARTH	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141	NULL
CLOUDHEIGHT	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL

Data Coverage
Summary of the temporal and spatial data coverage for the data.

Spatial coverage
Max Y: 75.0
Min X: -90.0	Max X 90.0
Min Y 75.0

Temporal coverage
Start Date:	2004-02-14
End Date:

Spatial resolution

No spatial resoultion information available.

Vertical extent

No vertical extent information available.

Responsible Parties
Parties responsible for the metadata - e.g. data curator. Responsible parties can have a role specified to make their function clearer. Multiple responsible parties can be specified.

Role	Name	URI
Data Curator	badc.nerc.ac.uk	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk

Other Info
Other miscellaneous information. Note, update frequency relates to the update frequency of the underlying data, not the metadata.

Dataset language

English

Update frequency

daily

Links and Services
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