Meteosat Geostationary Satellites First Generation: Visible, Infra-Red and Water Vapour Images over Europe

Meteosat-7 and its predecessors were the first generation of earth observation dedicated geostationary satellites located at 36000 km above the intersection of the Equator and the Greenwich Meridian. Although superseded by MSG-1 (renamed Meteosat-8) in 2005, Meteosat-7 remained as back-up at 0o longitude until 14th June 2006. Meteosat-7 will be moved to 63oE longitude to continue coverage of the Indian Ocean and take over from Meteosat-5.

Meteosat-7 was launched by the European Space Agency and operated by Eumetsat.

This dataset collection contains visible, water vapour, thermal and infra-red images of the North Atlantic Ocean, Europe and North Africa from the Meteosat geostationary satellite. Images are archived from 11th November 1999 to June 2006. These images are public.

Data were collected every half hour in three wavelength channels for visible, infra-red and water vapour images.

Date (Publication): 2000-12-10T02:34:00

Date (Creation): 2000-12-10T02:34:00

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/531384467ff3af2b468b668f405104e1

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 531384467ff3af2b468b668f405104e1

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Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
EUMETSAT	unknown	Author
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)	badc@rl.ac.uk	Custodian
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)	badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)	badc@rl.ac.uk	pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)	badc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Series

Keywords

Visible
Infra-Red
Water Vapour

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Other constraints: Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/msg.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under academic use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1999-11-11T00:00:00

End date: 2009-04-30T22:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Name	Version
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Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/531384467ff3af2b468b668f405104e1	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.eumetsat.int/	EUMETSAT website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://zenodo.org/record/7356569	Meteosat - The operational programme

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://zenodo.org/record/7356571	Meteosat - there in all weather

Hierarchy level: Series

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Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.

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File identifier: 531384467ff3af2b468b668f405104e1 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2025-06-09T02:26:56

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Point of contact

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