New satellites in space to ‘save lives’ by giving early warnings on heatwaves and extreme weather
Experts will be launched into a series of satellite spaces to save lives potentially.
The project hopes to develop short -range and long -term forecasts that will help scientists more and more excessive air around the world.
The Metop Second Generation Project aims to make weather forecast more accurate by providing more detailed information for the estimation models that will be fed to Met Office data.
The first satellite Metop-SG A1 will be launched from the French Guyanası on Wednesday and will begin to collect data on weather conditions next year.
The European Meteorological Satellites (Euketsat) and the European Space Agency lead the project, which will see six satellites sent to the low world orbit.
Eumetsat General Manager Phil Evans said that the new satellites would help to save life by predicting more and more excessive weather before the realization.
He said: “Excessive weather has cost hundreds of billions of euros and tens of thousands of life in Europe in the last 40 years – storms such as Boris, Daniel and Hans, Record Heat waves and severe forest fires are only the latest reminders.
“The launch of Metop-SG A1 is a big step forward in providing sharper tools in our member states to save the national weather conditions, to protect property and to resist the climate crisis.”
After use, satellites could see developed estimates in Europe and up to 10 days worldwide.
The data can also help short -range forecasts and allow experts to detect symptoms of expression of early storm development and other high -effective weather events, especially those with higher latitudes.
The satellite will be an audience called Copernicus Sentinel 5 Mission, which will be used to watch air quality and long -term climate.
The satellite will resign about 800 km over 800 km, complement the full orbit every 100 minutes, approaching the north and south poles and allowing the entire world to take images throughout the day.
In addition to imaging, satellite, temperature, rainfall, clouds, winds, pollution, and other equipment to collect data about other factors to predict other factors will use other equipment.
This information will be given back to stations such as newly established satellite monitoring dinner at the Met Office center in Exeter.
Simon Kegh, the head of space applications in Met Office, said that it would be “absolutely vital için for air predictions.
He said: “We know how important the satellite data is for the accuracy of the estimation, about a quarter of the existing accuracy comes from this source.
“The new generation of these satellites is important not only to maintain existing accuracy because old systems are online, but also to develop observations for new generation weather forecasts.
“This project is certainly vital because we are sure that we can continue to offer more accurate estimates for the next five days and beyond.”
British Science Minister Lord Vallance said: “Our air becomes more and more unpredictable. This launch is the last result of investing with European partners to support weather forecasts so that we can keep up with our changing climate.
“To take advantage of first -class insights from this satellite, will improve our ability to predict high -effective weather events. This will protect our infrastructure, our economy and save life and keep our change plan on the road.”
On Tuesday, the fourth heat wave in summer was announced and organizations issued a possible risk for life from Amber health warnings and high temperatures.
Experts, the world’s record of the third July this year, lived in the month of heat and fatal floods, he said.
