Stefan Stapelberg (EUMETSAT): Level 2 products from EUMETSAT’s first geostationary hyperspectral Infrared sounder mission

The Infrared Sounder (IRS) aboard Europe’s new meteorological satellite offers highresolution, frequent atmospheric observations to enhance weather forecasting. Using EUMETSAT’s piecewise linear regression method, it retrieves detailed temperature, humidity, and ozone profiles with uncertainty estimates. These data, combined with cloud information and Instability indices, are expected to improve the performance of numerical weather prediction (NWP) models, particularly in the context of severe storm forecasting.

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