European Space Education Resource Center

“Space Climate Observatory: satellites serving the cause of climate change” with Vincent Lonjou. Vincent Lonjou joined CNES in 2008. He spent more than 10 years working on the development, in-flight acceptance testing, and ultimately the in-orbit operation of observation missions. He has now joined CNES’s Earth Observation Laboratory. In this position, he is responsible for various projects within the Space Climate Observatory, where he promotes the use of space data in the fight against global warming.

Catherine Freydier is a Division Engineer for Meteorological Research and holds a Master’s degree in Meteorology and Oceanography from Paris VI University. Catherine spent two years working as part of a team at the National Center for Meteorological Research, where she helped validate the Arpège digital model (still in use today). In 1995, she was finally able to devote herself to her true calling at Météo France: teaching, by joining the National School of Meteorology. She is involved in training future engineers, senior technicians, and military personnel. She teaches physics and atmospheric dynamics, and also gives more specialized courses on tropical meteorology, numerical weather prediction, and convection. She is increasingly involved in training courses on climate change.