EUMETSAT Annual Report 2022

EUMETSAT ANNUAL REPORT 2022
Brightness temperature [K]
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FCDR MWI // SSMIS F18 // 22GHz // 2020-01-01, ascending orbits
to develop a “climate normals and climate anomalies”
service for EUMETSAT’s climate data records that will
start in 2023.
A new agreement to support the Copernicus
Climate Change Service (C3S) entered into force on
1 January 2022. The agreement covers and funds
provision of satellite data used as inputs to ERA6
until the end of 2025.
Data record release and
development in 2022
In 2022, EUMETSAT released several new, extended,
or improved data records, of (re)calibrated and
quality-controlled sensor data as well as of validated
and quality-controlled geophysical variables. Besides
releasing new versions of existing data records, there
were several first-time releases.
A list of the climate data records released in 2022
can be found on page 69.
The update of the rolling, five-year Climate Services
Development Plan for 2022-2026 was approved in
June and contains new commitments that support
the SAF network and the C3S. A quality-controlled,
recalibrated and remapped radiation data record
from satellites in geostationary orbit will be created
in the next five years in cooperation with the US
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
and the Japan Meteorological Agency, starting from
the mid-1970s and continuing into the future.
The Microwave Image Radiances: Climate Monitoring
SAF fundamental climate data record 4th release
is an extended and improved edition now covering
1978-2020 and is based on SSMR, SSM/I and SSMIS
observations. It is the basis for the Ocean and Sea
Ice SAF Sea Ice Concentration data record and was
released 4 August 2022. Credit: CM SAF
Systematic activities to reprocess data from
Copernicus missions to enhance their quality and
temporal consistency as a step towards climate data
records were further enhanced throughout 2022.
A first altimeter and microwave radiometer data
record from the first year of data from the Sentinel-6
Michael Freilich satellite was generated and jointly
released to the public with NASA Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in July. An ocean colour data record from
the Ocean and Land Colour Instruments on Sentinel-3A
and -3B was completed and delivered to the
Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service.
All activities are captured in the new, five-year
rolling Copernicus Reprocessing Plan, published in
November, which details EUMETSAT’s activities for
the programme.
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