Europeans Launch New Generation Of Weather Satellites

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 29, 2002 @01:43PM from the wetter dept.

dankelley writes: "The BBC is reporting that the European Space Agency has successfully launched the first of a new generation of weather satellites. This is 25 years after the first weather satellite, meteosat. This new generation will supply images at 15 minutes, compared with 30 minutes in the first generation. This should help with rapidly-developing weather events. Also, the 'view' will be in 12, rather than 3, visible/IR wavelength bands. The improved spectral resolution is hoped to facilitate climate modelling. Details are available on the ESA webpage devoted to the launch."

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WHAT? by 216pi · 2002-08-29 19:43 · Score: 3, Insightful

Europe (I live in Germany [cnn.com]) has MAJOR problems [spiegel.de] (German news site, but just browse the pics) with the weather. Only Germany has estimated damages of something around 50 billion dollars only caused by this flood after heavy rainfalls.

Weather is NOT just a question if you can have a BBQ on weekend.

Please ask your president to sign the Kyoto contracts, thanks.