(upbeat electronic music)
- Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich
will provide important information
in producing our daily weather forecast.
So how does this work?
The data from the GNSSRO, that stands for
Global Navigation Satellite
System and Radio Occultation,
the new instrument onboard,
is ingested into the weather models
that can help us with
our weather forecasting
and our warnings to
help protect the public.
- This mission will
use a special technique
called radio occultation,
which measures tiny changes
in the radio signals
broadcast by GPS and other
navigation satellites.
The GNSSRO instrument essentially measures
the time delay of the radio signals
as they go through different
layers of the atmosphere.
So, this allow us to unravel
the temperature and moisture content
of the atmosphere layer-by-layer.
- Most of the weather that we experience
comes from our West, over the ocean,
that lacks conventional observations
like what we have over land.
The GNSSRO will help
address these challenges
by providing us very important
temperature and moisture
information over the ocean
that will help our forecast
here on the West Coast.
- Studying the entire atmosphere,
from the surface all the
way up to the stratosphere,
is important for us to
improve our understanding
of our weather and climate change.
- We're very excited with the data
that the GNSSRO will provide
for these weather models,
that will ultimately
help improve our forecast
and warnings to help protect the public.
- We are excited about
Sentinel-6 new capabilities.
Make sure to watch Sentinel-6
Michael Freilich's launch
from Vandenberg Air
Force Base in California
later this year.
