MSG-3 was successfully launched from Kourou. The payloads are SEVIRI and Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB). GERB will be switched on a week later after launch. GERB testing will involve in particular our colleagues from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)…
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For each satellite, the IXION software, devlopped at LMD, provides three relevant informations: – Orbit (map with the satellite ground track) – Local view (overpass schedule for a given location), – Sampling (monthly table of overpasses). With this new…
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The Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) MTGV Super-Site is now fully operational with the Xport polarimetric radar ready to sample convective systems. The first Radio-Sounding Campaign dedicated to MT-SAPHIR based Water Vapor products validation, has been going on since May 29th, thanks…
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Megha-Tropiques was present at the 30th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology that took place in Ponte-Vedra Beach, FL, USA on 15-20th of April 2012. The Megha-Tropiques data set is an invaluable source of information for the community working on…
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Last week we organized a 3-days workshop where 50-60 people from a large number of research laboratories all over the country, actively participated. 4 years after a first encounter in La Rochelle, the meeting has permitted to showcase the status…
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