Geostationary satellite images - 1:

METEOSAT

Meteosat is the European contribution to the Global Atmospheric Research programme and is a geostationary earth observation platform in orbit at 0° - above the intersection of the Greenwich Meridian and the Equator. From its orbital position, Meteosat 'sees' a whole Earth disk that extends from South America to the Middle East, with Africa below the satellite. Europe is to the top - from this position, Meteosat is ideally placed to observe weather patterns in the Atlantic and across Europe and to assist in the forecasting of European weather. Meteosat is operated by EUMETSAT on behalf of European meteorological agencies.

The Meteosat System: Orbiter, Imaging etc.
Information about the Meteosat system, how images are acquired, the Wefax format etc.

Visible light band images - Europe, Atlantic, Africa


Images in JPEG format (100k approx), Lat/Long grid and coastline added

[ C1 ] [ C2 ] [ C3 ]

[ C4 ] [ C5 ] [ C6 ]Please select an image segment to download

[ C7 ] [ C8 ] [ C9 ] [ CTOT ] Whole Earth disk CTOT

Visible band close up images of Europe - C02 (west) and C03 (central and eastern)

Thermal Infra-Red band images - Europe, Atlantic, Africa


Images in JPEG format (100k approx), Lat/Long grid and coastline added

[ D1 ] [ D2 ] [ D3 ]

[ D4 ] [ D5 ] [ D6 ]Please select an image segment to download

[ D7 ] [ D8 ] [ D9 ] [ DTOT ] Whole Earth disk DTOT

6µm IR Water Absorption band - Europe, Atlantic, Africa


Images in JPEG format (100k approx), Lat/Long grid and coastline added. Images cover the same geographical areas as for Visible and Thermal bands but show water vapour in the upper atmosphere. Coastlines etc. are added for identification purposes only. These images do not always give a good indication of ground level conditions.

[ ETOT ] Whole Earth disk ETOT

[ E1 ] [ E2 ] [ E3 ]

[ E4 ] [ E5 ] [ E6 ]

[ E7 ] [ E8 ] [ E9 ]

Other Meteosat images and information

Cloud Top Height

Eumetsat administration message

Meteosat high resolution PDUS images

False colour meteosat image from Meteo France

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Page update: January 1999