"Following the launch of the MTG-I1 satellite, the momentum in the MTG program is relentless," ESA's Meteosat program manager Paul Blythe said. MTG-S will allow atmospheric instability to be modeled in three dimensions throughout the clouds, making it a significant step forward for severe thunderstorm early warning. The MTG-I1 will soon be joined in orbit by a revolutionary MTG Sounding (MTG-S) satellite carrying an Infrared Sounder and an Ultraviolet Visible Near-Infrared spectrometer. Powerful Ariane 5 rocket launches 3 satellites to orbit (video) Climate change keeps space debris afloat longer 10 devastating signs of climate change satellites can see from space Over the next 12 months, its operators will switch on the satellite's Flexible Combined Imager and the Lightning Imager instruments and will calibrate the data it collects. MTG-I1 won't be supplying data to meteorological services in Europe and the rest of the globe until the tail end of 2023. "The high-resolution and frequent repeat cycle of the Flexible Combined Imager will greatly help the World Meteorological Organization community to improve forecasts of severe weather, long-term climate monitoring, marine applications, and agricultural meteorology, and will make an important contribution to the Early Warnings For All (opens in new tab) Initiative, in particular on the African continent," Head of the World Meteorological Organization Space Systems and Utilization Division, WMO, Natalia Donoho, said in the statement. This frequency will also be important to the MTG system's ability to monitor severe weather. The system will produce images of the full disc of Earth every 10 minutes once it is fully operational. The third generation of Meteosat meteorological satellites won't take images only at a higher resolution than that its predecessors, but they will also snap images of the planet more frequently than the instruments of the second generation of satellites. But the level of detail seen for the clouds in this image is extraordinarily important to weather forecasters." "It might sound odd to be so excited about a cloudy day in most of Europe. "This remarkable image gives us great confidence in our expectation that the MTG system will herald a new era in the forecasting of severe weather events," EUMETSAT director general, Phil Evans, said in ESA's statement. MTG-I1 has also demonstrated its capability to observe cloud structures at high latitudes, which will help weather forecasters to track the rapid development of severe weather in these regions of the globe. An illustration of the Meteosat Third Generation satellites in orbit.
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