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On December 13, 2022, a payload carrying a European weather satellite was sent into orbit from its launch site in Kourou, French Guiana. Known as the Meteosat Third Generation Imager 1 (MTG-I1), it was the first launch of the next generation of satellites from the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT).

Based in Darmstadt, Germany, and comprising 30 European countries as its members, EUMETSAT is the European operational satellite agency for monitoring weather and climate from space. EUMETSAT’s MTG-I1 satellite, developed by the European Space Agency (ESA), carries two instruments on board, both of which are imagers.

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Saildrone has received classification for an autonomous, uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS). The mid-class vehicle in Saildrone’s fleet is the first-ever commercial autonomous USV to receive the classification, the company says.

The Saildrone Voyager, a 10m USV used for near-shore bathymetry and maritime security, is a platform and a force multiplier providing near-real-time data across the world’s oceans. Classification is a major milestone for Saildrone, enabling the Voyager to operate in the ports and waters of countries that require vessels to be classed by organizations such as ABS.

“Saildrone has spent three years maturing the Voyager design to be the industry leader in capability, reliability and safety in the uncrewed vehicle sector,” said Richard Jenkins, CEO and founder of Saildrone.

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Diane Thompson, associate professor in the University of Arizona Department of Geosciences, explains the significance of studying Earth’s water cycle and how rising and falling temperatures have altered it.

It’s a multibillion-dollar question: What will happen to water availability as temperatures continue to rise? There will be winners and losers with any change that redistributes where, when and how much water is available for humans to drink and use.

To find answers and make informed predictions, scientists look to the past. Reconstructions of past climate change using geologic data have helped to show the far-reaching influence of human activity on temperatures since the industrial age.

Continue reading INTERVIEW: University of Arizona’s Diane Thompson explains what coral reefs can reveal about the future at Meteorological Technology International.

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NOAA’s National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) has launched a new data visualization tool, which will provide free and easy-to-access information on the status of US coral reefs.

According to the organization, it is the first tool focusing on shallow tropical coral reef data to be hosted on the NOAA GeoPlatform, which is NOAA’s central hub for geospatial data and tools. Now stakeholders, scientists, managers and students have a one-stop information hub to access and understand NOAA’s shallow tropical coral data that they can customize to focus on coral trends across specific timescales, locations, coral or fish species, climate data and socioeconomics.

Continue reading NOAA unveils tool for exploring coral reef data at Meteorological Technology International.

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A new national assessment of water and climate in the US, led by CU Boulder’s Liz Payton, cites some progress

According to the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), climate change is intensifying rainfall and floods, deepening droughts and shifting weather patterns across the globe – threatening terrestrial freshwater supplies and water quality. These impacts are reportedly unequal, disproportionately affecting the most frontline populations in the US.

“Climate change will manifest through profound changes to the movement, amounts and timing of water,” said Payton, a water resources specialist in the CIRES-based Western Water Assessment, and lead author of the water chapter.

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Ocean temperatures and their connections to weather trends have been making news. In response, five University of Washington (UW) experts offer their perspectives on the current El Niño – a climate pattern in the tropical Pacific Ocean that affects weather worldwide. UW researchers comment on the current El Niño and its effect on weather in the Pacific Northwest, as well as on regional and global ocean temperature trends.

Aaron Levine, a UW research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean and Ecosystem Studies, commented, “This El Niño has evolved in a really interesting way. Since spring, the dynamical models have very confidently predicted an El Niño event.

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The Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) has relaunched an online service to enable users to freely download weather observations from its archives.

The Download Observations service enables you to search for observation data at any time and free of charge and use it freely for your own purposes and its renewal makes it more versatile, easier to use and more accessible. Anyone using the online service can search for weather, radiation, marine and air quality observations in the Download Observations service. According to the FMI, the data is easy to download, for example, to your own spreadsheet program. No programming skills are required; the service uses the FMI’s open data.

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NOAA has conducted a collocated drone mission into a hurricane, collecting data in the lower levels of the storm that have been historically too hard to reach – until now.

The NOAA Hurricane Field Program team flew several operational and research missions into Hurricane Tammy in October 2023 on board the NOAA Hurricane Hunter P-3 aircraft and collected data sets from multiple different instruments. In addition to the first ever Black Swift Technologies S0 drone launch into a storm, the research missions also resulted in the successful coordination of a low-flying drone (Anduril’s Altius 600), an ocean surface uncrewed vehicle from Saildrone, atmospheric profilers (dropsondes), and ocean profilers (bathythermographs).

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