9th Earth Observation Summer School 2018

The educational materials from the 9th Earth Observation Summer School 2018 (EOSS 2018) , held at ESA-ESRIN in Rome, Italy, from 30 July to 10 August 2018, are accessible via the links below:

The replays of the livestreamed lectures are available here.

Day 1 – Monday 30 July 2018:

• The Earth System; past and present (theory), A.Cazenave (4 MB)
• Sea level rise from space (theory), A.Cazenave (7 MB)

Day 2 – Tuesday 31 July 2018:

• Remote sensing of sea ice (theory), L.Toudal (4 MB)
• Monitoring the water cycle over land: rainfall and surface energy balance (theory), Z.Zoltan Vekerdy (2 MB)
• Monitoring the water cycle over land: water bodies and soil moisture (theory), Z.Zoltan Vekerdy (4 MB)

Day 3 – Wednesday 1 August 2018:

• Satellite Oceanography: an integrated perspective Part 1 (theory), B.Chapron (6 MB)
• Ocean Circulation I: Introduction (theory), M.H.Rio (3 MB)
• Ocean colour theory, B.Brewin (7 MB)
• Remote sensing and modelling of sea ice (theory), L.T.Pedersen (3 MB)
• Ocean Virtual Lab (OVL) (practical), F.Collard, L.Gaultier and G.Le Seach (426 KB)

Day 4 – Thursday 2 August 2018:

• Satellite Oceanography: an integrated perspective Part 2 (theory), B.Chapron (4 MB)
• How to measure 3 trillion tons of ice (theory), A.Shepherd (61 MB)
• Ocean Circulation II: Space and in-situ data synergy (theory), M.H.Rio (3 MB)
• Ocean colour and the marine carbon cycle (theory), B.Brewin (5 MB)
• Ocean Virtual Lab (OVL) (practical), F.Collard, L.Gaultier and G.Le Seach (422 KB)

Day 5 – Friday 3 August 2018:

• Satellite Oceanography: Observing ocean waves from Space (theory), B.Chapron (7 MB)
• Ocean Circulation III: The 3D perspective (theory), M.H.Rio (3 MB)
• Ocean colour and climate (theory), B.Brewin (7 MB)
• Is Earth’s sea ice declining? (theory), A.Shepherd (239 MB)
• Ocean Virtual Lab (OVL) (practical), F.Collard, L.Gaultier and G.Le Seach (439 KB)

Day 6 – Monday 6 August 2018:

• The role of the global carbon cycle in the Earth System (theory), S.Quegan (2 MB)
• Monitoring and Modelling of Land Surface Processes (theory), J.Verrelst (5 MB)
• Atmospheric carbon dioxide: watching the earth breathe (theory), J.Marshall (35 MB)

Day 7 – Tuesday 7 August 2018:

• Observing the terrestrial carbon cycle (theory), S.Quegan (6 MB)
• Atmospheric methane: untangling an enigma (theory), J.Marshall (3 MB)
• Data Assimilation (DA): An introduction to data assimilation (theory), A.Lawless (413 KB)

Day 8 – Wednesday 8 August 2018:

• Combining models and data to quantify the terrestrial carbon cycle (theory), S.Quegan (2 MB)
• Atmospheric inversions: tracking down the sources and sinks (theory), J.Marshall (2 MB)
• Data Assimilation (DA): Variational data assimilation and the ensemble Kalman filter (theory), A.Lawless (378 KB)

Day 9 – Thursday 9 August 2018:

• Satellite gradiometry for geophysical research (theory), J.Ebbing (39 MB)
• Joint inversion of satellite and other geophysical data (theory), J.Ebbing (3 MB)
• Data Assimilation (DA): Applications of data assimilation and current challenges (theory), A.Lawless (1 MB)

Day 10 – Friday 10 August 2018:

• Linking Solid Earth and cryosphere in Antarctica (theory), J.Ebbing (39 MB)
• Innovation in Earth Observation (theory), I.Kilbane-Dawe (1 MB)