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Jenny is Head of the Real Time Service and System Operations Division at Eumetsat in Germany. She has a wealth of experience in weather and now weather satellites, previously working for ECMWF and the Met Office.
Eumetsat is responsible for maintaining and operating meteorological satellites. The organsiation delivers this data to where it needs to go, ensuring that supercomputers around the world are being fed realtime data from space while improving the accuracy of the the most sophisticated climate and weather models.
Jenny talks through the incredible journey of the newly launched MGT-I1 and why it may change the future of global forecasting. She also talks about the Geo-ring, Lagrange points and satellite graveyards! So have a listen and sit back and as always we hope you leave this episode just loving the weather that little bit ...
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