History of EUMETSAT.

To read pages 3 to 95 of the text start here. Either follow the links on each page to the next and previous text page or change the page number in the url in your browser window to flick around the book. Pages 4, 26, 27, 59, 77, 78, 91 and 92 of the hard copy do not carry text and thus do not exist in electronic form. The book is available directly from EUMETSAT in English and French. The title field, readable by right clicking and selecting view source, says more about why certain pages are not included in this electronic version. EUMETSAT is located at the url: http://www.eumetsat.int This text was posted with EUMETSAT's knowledge and consent. A high quality French translation is available in print form from EUMETSAT. The IGO monitors weather and climate change. Page 3. Go to the next text page. If the link does not work, and I have coded it correctly on this page, then simply change the number in the url in the browser window from 3 to 5 and press enter. Or cut and paste the following link into the browser: http://www.gavaghancommunications.com/page5.html. Acknowledgements EUMETSAT expresses its thanks to Helen Gavaghan who, in a very short time, researched and authored this history on behalf of the Organisation. Helen Gavaghan has 20 years experience as a science and technology author, editor, and news and feature writer, based both in the UK and the USA. She contributes regularly to Science, Nature and the French biotechnology magazine Biofutur. She was on the staff of New Scientist for seven years and still contributes occasional features, opinion pieces and online articles. In 1998, Gavaghan published her first book, Something New Under the Sun (Copernicus, New York). She contributed extensively to Dorling-Kindersley's Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia, published in 1999, and is currently working on a book about space and the Antarctic. Additional thanks are expressed to the following persons who provided considerable help and advice in the preparation of the work: Dr. Bizzarro Bizzarri Mr. Udo Gartner Prof. Andre Lebeau Dr. Tillmann Mohr Mr. John Morgan Mr. Claude Pastre I would like to add my personal thanks to each of the above and to EUMETSAT's communication's office, in particular to Madeleine Pooley and Mike Phillips. Their help and support helped my exploration and analysis of the minutes of the EUMETSAT Council and its subcommittees. EUMETSAT awarded the contract for the work after inviting competitive bids from people who had already published in related areas. I had already researched and written, with the support of a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, an earlier book which included a section on meteorological satellites. I put my book writing plans about the history of the Antarctic and the International Geophysical Year on hold when, in the autumn of 2002, I returned to part time studies for a research degree at The University of Manchester. Helen Gavaghan Contents Preface Foreword Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8