{"id":243837,"date":"2026-09-09T21:04:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T02:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/how-2-us-european-satellites-are-studying-hurricanes-during-el-nino"},"modified":"2026-09-09T21:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T02:04:36","slug":"how-2-us-european-satellites-are-studying-hurricanes-during-el-nino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/how-2-us-european-satellites-are-studying-hurricanes-during-el-nino","title":{"rendered":"How 2 US, European Satellites Are Studying Hurricanes During El Ni\u00f1o"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-2-us-european-satellites-are-studying-hurricanes-during-el-nino.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last November, NASA and its European partners launched the Sentinel-6B satellite to improve hurricane forecasts, help protect infrastructure, and benefit commercial industries, including shipping. The satellite now is flying 30 seconds behind its predecessor, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich. Both satellites are providing precise sea level height measurements during what oceanographers expect to be a historic El Ni\u00f1o, a naturally occurring oceanic phenomenon in which warmer-than-usual Pacific waters shift global weather patterns.<\/p>\n<p>The two satellites make up the Copernicus Sentinel-6\/Jason-CS (Continuity of Service) mission, the latest in a series of ocean-observing radar altimetry missions that have been monitoring Earth\u2019s changing seas continuously since the early 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>The data each satellite is collecting will not only allow scientists to better understand this year\u2019s El Ni\u00f1o but will also help them create more accurate hurricane predictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last November, NASA and its European partners launched the Sentinel-6B satellite to improve hurricane forecasts, help protect infrastructure, and benefit commercial industries, including shipping. The satellite now is flying 30 seconds behind its predecessor, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich. Both satellites are providing precise sea level height measurements during what oceanographers expect to be a historic El [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}