**IMPORTANT**

Images are only kept at this site for one week. The University of
Bayreuth in Germany has been archiving our images for some time and they
are available from

gopher://gopher.uni-bayreuth.de:70/11/Service/Meteosat

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Look in the directory 'Information' for more information !


Files in this Directory.
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Infra-red images are updated at 6:40, 15:40 and 20:40, the visible images
only  at  12:10, except the world  and  european  visibles  which  are
also updated at 15:40.  ( I know this sounds confusing, but there is a 
good reason for it - uk and nordic images are produced from higher
resolution data received only at midday, and no visible is transmitted
at 6:40 ).

In /animations/bin can be found an image viewer 'disp' which will handle
all the image formats in this archive ( incl. all the animations ), but
it's rather slow, and is fiddly to set up - but does support SVGA on a 
wide variety of graphics cards.


1. current.[vis ir].Z 
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-This is a compressed sun raster file of the infra-red, or visible Meteosat
 image captured at 0602 GMT every morning and also at 1502 GMT in the case
 of infra-red and 1134 for the visible image.
 The image size is 1152 x 900 which is exactly the size of a sun workstation 
 root window.


2. current.[vis ir].mono.Z
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-This is the monochrome, dithered version of current.*.Z . As well
 as being usable on monochrome workstations, this format has the
 advantage of being a much more compact file.


3. gifs directory.
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This contains Meteosat gif files for 4 selected regions ( uk, scandinavia,
europe and the world ).

4. jpeg directory.
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This contains jpeg images corresponding to the gifs, and larger resolution
images of Europe and Africa. 

5. archive directory.
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This contains the previous 7 days jpeg images for all areas.


 Please send comments or suggestions to meteosat@ed.ac.uk