The Hydrology Group of the Italian National Research Council has developed an innovative approach using satellite observations of terrestrial water storage, soil moisture and precipitation to predict runoff and river discharge – with the results published in the EGU Geoscientific Model Development journal. This outcome of several ESA-funded activities, including Stream, Ridesat and the merged Streamride projects, …
The Glacier Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise (GlaMBIE) project is a community effort aiming for a reconciled assessment of regional and global glacier mass changes towards the next IPCC report. Anyone performing research in this domain is now invited to submit their data (either based on altimetry, DEM, in-situ glaciological, gravimetry or combined measurements) as input …
Billions of radar images over the entire Amazon basin have been converted into a data cube and processed to help a dynamic detection of forest loss. This work, performed within the Sentinel-1 for Science: Amazonas project, uses a space-time data cube design (also known as StatCubes), where statistical information relevant to identify deforestation is extracted …
Certainly not according to available data. The claim of a so called “ozone hole” in the tropical lower stratosphere, “seven times larger in area than the one over Antarctica” (see Fig. 1), was made by a – highly controversial – paper (Lu, 2022). The study used data from the smoothed and gap-filled version of the …
A team of researchers estimated the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from coal-fired power plants and other major anthropogenic point sources in the South African Highveld region using space-based data. The results indicate that CO2 emissions can be obtained also in challenging cases where the plumes from multiple sources overlap. The new publication characterizes CO2 emissions …
Back in 2020, ESA and the DG-RTD of the EC signed a collaboration agreement to “jointly advance Earth system science and its contribution to respond to the global challenges that society is facing in the onset of this century”. Such cooperation is implemented by fostering scientific collaboration across European teams and projects and supporting ambitious complementary collaborative activities, funded on …
The first SMOS Space Weather workshop took place in ESRIN last 14 November. Read about highlights from the event, attended by experts in the domain of space weather, solar interactions and the SMOS mission, in this web article and dig into all the presentations available online on the workshop webpage.
Apply now, before 7 December 2022, for 5 new Internal Research Fellow in Earth Observation for Earth System Science positions. Scientific activities to be carried out in these positions will focus on the following thematic priorities: Hydrology and the water cycle Terrestrial carbon cycle Biodiversity Ocean science Polar science and cryosphere research Atmosphere research. Applicants …
ESA has recently opened a new scientific facility, the Science Hub, which offers new opportunities for collaborative research to further boost the Agency’s and its Member States scientific output. Focusing on Earth system science, it fosters open science, maximises the scientific impacts of the family of Earth Explorers and the Copernicus Sentinel missions, enhances the …
The ESA Ocean Science Cluster is an emerging concept whose objective is to promote collaborative research among the different projects and scientific activities ESA has been investing in the recent years, with the objective to enhance our observing capability and scientific understanding of the oceans and coastal regions. This new concept is to be supported …
