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Author(s): Fan Anqi

China launches new meteorological satellite to provide more accurate forecasts amid climate change

Source(s): Global Times, the
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The Fengyun-3 06 satellite lifted off on a Long March-4C carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China at 11:47 am on Thursday, and will replace the Fengyun-3C satellite, which has been in operation for nearly a decade and should have retired years ago.

Building upon the global imaging and atmospheric vertical detection capabilities of the Fengyun-3 series, the new satellite focuses on Earth surface imaging observation.

It is capable of obtaining global ozone distribution, monitoring global ice and snow coverage, sea surface temperature, natural disasters, and the ecological environment, the Global Times learned from the China National Space Administration.

Over the past 100 years, the average temperature of the Earth has increased by about 1 C, which, when averaged out to each year and each day, is an extremely subtle change. This requires that the meteorological satellite detection accuracy be high, and the detection error should not exceed the temperature deviation of the Earth. 

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