Our partners
Météo-France
Météo-France is a public institution. It contributes to public safety, provides forecasts and data, offers expertise on climate challenges, and supports research in meteorology and climate science.
Its missions include observing and forecasting weather, supported by increasingly powerful supercomputers.
Public safety is a key mission: Météo-France operates warning systems and informs authorities and citizens of hazardous weather events. It also supports aviation safety, national defence, maritime safety and environmental protection (including air quality monitoring).
Climate study is another essential mission: preserving climate records, observing ongoing changes and forecasting future climate.
Météo-France also advances scientific knowledge through its research centres and collaborations with the scientific community.
Finally, it provides meteorological and climate services to public and private stakeholders and citizens, supporting decision-making in the context of climate change.
Key mission
- Observe and forecast
- Contribute to safety
- Study and monitor climate
- Advance knowledge and innovation
- Provide weather and climate services
Eumetsat
EUMETSAT is the European operational satellite agency for monitoring weather, climate and the environment from space.
EUMETSAT is an intergovernmental organisation based in Darmstadt, Germany, with 30 Member States. EUMETSAT operates the geostationary satellites Meteosat -10, -11 and -12 over Europe and Africa, and Meteosat-9 over the Indian Ocean.
It also operates two Metop polar-orbiting satellites as part of the Initial Joint Polar System (IJPS) shared with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
In addition, EUMETSAT is a partner in the cooperative sea level monitoring Jason missions (Jason-3 and Jason-CS/Sentinel-6) involving Europe and the United States. The data and products from EUMETSAT's satellites are vital to weather forecasting and make a significant contribution to the monitoring of the environment and climate change.
The European Union has entrusted EUMETSAT with exploiting the four Sentinel missions of the Copernicus space component dedicated to the monitoring of atmosphere, ocean and climate on its behalf. EUMETSAT carries out these tasks in cooperation with ESA and already exploits the Sentinel-3 and Sentinel-6 marine missions and of 2026 will operate Sentinel-4 and Sentinel-5.
EUMETSAT has established cooperation with Earth observation satellite operators in Europe, China, India, Japan, South Korea and the United States.