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Exciting news for the meteorological community! ⚡ We have started disseminating pre-operational data from #MTGI1's Lightning Imager, providing weather forecasters in Europe, Africa, and beyond with unprecedented insights into storm activity. This is set to improve the monitoring and prediction of severe weather, offering crucial support to communities and industries like aviation. By observing abrupt changes in lightning activity, forecasters will be able to better predict the development and severity of storms 👏 For more information and to watch all videos in full, please visit: https://bit.ly/4ckBouP European Space Agency - ESA Leonardo Space

🚀 Final call! Only one week left to benefit from the early registration fee for the EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference 2024 in Würzburg, Germany. Join us from 30 September to 4 October 2024 at the Congress Centrum Würzburg, located on the banks of the Main River. Enjoy the modern facilities, scenic views of vineyards, and the historic Marienburg fortress. You also don't want to miss out on our engaging networking events! These events offer a fantastic opportunity to connect with experts and peers in the field. 🔗 Register here: https://bit.ly/EMSC2024 #EMSC2024

🌊 Join the yearly gathering of #MarineData stakeholders! On 5 and 6 November, Lisbon will host the Marine User Days, a two-day event fostering insightful discussions on marine data applications in the context of continuous technological advancements. The Marine User Days event is organised by the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) in collaboration with a wide range of partners, including Mercator Ocean International and the Copernicus Marine Service. Learn more ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d8AnAgHS Keep in mind: the deadline for registration is 10 October 2024!

🗣 Irma, Maria, Fiona. These are not friends or relative but hurricanes, extreme phenomena that happen more and more frequently and with which we have to learn to live with. When I started 35 years ago at the National Weather Service Office in San Juan, there was a council  of climate change which was studying for  example Coastal erosion sea level rise.   But that seemed like far away those things were going to happen in the future. The future is  here ! And now we are facing people dying from hurricanes, from heat waves.  People are suffering in the communities because of the impacts of climate change. The economic, the environmental and the social impact on climate change are happening NOW ! Ada Monzon Interview at Forum International de la Météo et du Climat at EUMETSAT headquarters, 🇩🇪 #FIMC2024 #climate #journalist #weather

Another eruption for the #Etna volcano! This leads to a high load of #ashes in the sky on Sunday 07.07.2024 that needs to be monitored for #airplane security! We have achieved this with #Copernicus #Sentinel3 and our Near Real Time #NRT operational system developed by EUMETSAT! At the same time, a large plume of Saharan dust has been blowing across the #Mediterranean basin! The mixture of both dust and ash particles results in a very high total concentration of #atmospheric #aerosols (also named #Aerosol Optical Depth or AOD). The computed map of total AOD mixes both dust and ashes. But we can still distinguish a bit the ash pattern on the right side of the thick dust plume. Beyond the direct benefits of such an operational information, this is a very exciting scientific case study for satellite remote sensing #scientists experts like us. Discriminating different #aerosol types within such a complex mixture is still challenging! #airquality #climate #airpollution #space Copernicus ECMWF

ICYMI: This week, pre-operational data from #MTGI1's Lightning Imager were released to #weather forecasters around Europe and beyond! ⚡️ Below: full-disk animation showing the LI's full field of view (covering around 84% of visible disk). Find out more at: https://bit.ly/4ckBouP

Drought update (and flooding conditions) in Italy The colour scale is not symmetrical to highlight the extremely wet conditions in the North after years of drought In Sicily driest conditions ever observed, drought also in Puglia and part of Basilicata Data EUMETSAT H SAF distributed by Copernicus Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche European Space Agency - ESA Massimiliano Pasqui Simone Mantovani

🗣️ Helga van Leur ☀️ ITW "We can leave this world behind better than we got it but we have to work for it. We have to act !" 🌍💚 ITW during the 2024 Mediaworkshop of the Forum International de la Meteo et du Climat in Darmstadt 🇩🇪 at EUMETSAT headquarters Thank you so much Helga for having been there with us your, sharing your professionalism and passion for the #climate ! #FIMC2024 #mediaworkshop

Daybreak is a Cooperative board game about stopping climate change. We discoverd it at the #FIMC2024 #mediaworkshop in Germany at EUMETSAT headquarters. The session was led by the co funder Matteo Menapace 🍉. A very interesting game that is currently developping in multi-language versions and can be played from 6 to 80, within the family or institutions & organisations !

🌐 The Destination Earth launch event drew an enthusiastic crowd to the LUMI data center in June. The high-level quests were impressed by the achievements of the initiative and its success thus far. ✨ European Commission Vice-President Margrethe Vestager observed that using such advanced technology for climate research is a prime example of the green and digital twin transition, in which climate action and technological development are taken to the next level. 🌍 The Destination Earth initiative aims to develop a highly accurate digital model of the Earth. This has the potential to revolutionize climate research and policy-making by making it possible to simulate and analyze Earth systems in real-time with high accuracy. Watch the video 👇 and read our blog post about the event: https://lnkd.in/dAk_Z788 European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts | EUMETSAT | European Commission | CSC - IT Center for Science #DestinationEarth #DestinE #HPC #AI #DigitalTwins #DigitalEU