Uncover the primary photos of MTG-I1
Animation – view of Europe
MTG-I1 first picture – view of Europe
A “zoom in” on Europe taken from MTG-I1’s first picture reveals lovely cloud options such because the “cloud streets” over the Greek Islands created by wind, the so-called Von Karman vortices – additionally created by wind – downstream of the Canary Islands, and cumulus cloud fields over the Libyan coast. The snow on the Alps and in Norway can also be seen in larger element than is feasible to establish from the imaging devices on Meteosat Second Technology satellites. The additional channels of MTG-I1’s Versatile Mixed Imager, 16 in comparison with 12 on the MSG SEVIRI devices, not solely produce higher true color imagery, however may also be helpful to raised detect mud, haze, smoke, cloud properties and wildfires, amongst others.
The identical “zoomed in” picture, taken by the imager on a Meteosat Second Technology satellite tv for pc, clearly reveals how the brand new expertise on MTG-I1 supplies climate forecasters with extra essential details about the state of the climate.