The Atmosphere Virtual Lab (AVL) is a cloud platform that consists of jupyterlab workspaces, a publicly accessible zarr datacube containing atmospheric satellite data, and a map client to view this data. AVL also captures a set of freely available Open Source tools the are made available as the Atmospheric Toolbox.
Ozone in the lower atmosphere can reach harmful levels, especially during summer pollution events. Prolonged exposure irritates the respiratory system and worsens lung diseases. Beyond health, it reduces agricultural productivity and harms ecosystems. Importantly, it is also the third most significant human-driven greenhouse gas, trapping heat and intensifying climate change. Tracking its global distribution over …
Background The EO for Official Statistics and policy indicators reporting Conference is planned to take place from 05 to 07 May 2026 in ESRIN. The conference will facilitate the integration EO into national statistics processes and policy reporting, addressing how EO data can enhance the accuracy, timeliness, and spatial granularity of key metrics used for …
Understanding how Earth’s upper atmosphere is changing is essential for reliable climate assessment. Yet for decades, scientists have lacked a consistent, long-term record of ozone and temperature in the mesosphere, the atmospheric region between roughly 50 and 100 km altitude. This layer plays a key role in atmospheric chemistry, solar interaction, and vertical coupling with …
Last November 21 the European Severe Storms Laboratory (ESSL) has announced that Blanka Piskala, research fellow at the ESA Science Hub, is the recipient of the Heino Tooming Award 2025. The honour was presented at this year’s European Conference on Severe Storms (ECSS2025), recognising her team’s innovative work on understanding lightning and convective storms through …
Background The Living Planet Symposium 2025 (LPS25) is the latest in ESA’s triennial series of global events on Earth observation. Held every three years, these symposia have grown in both size and scope, focusing on key environmental issues. In response to the intensifying climate crisis, LPS25 will center on the theme of moving “from observation …
The conference report from ATMOS2024 has just been released, a comprehensive document detailing highlights of the talks and posters presented at the conference held in Bologna, Italy, in July 2024. Fundamentally, the outcomes of this conference were used to develop a series of community-derived recommendations to ESA which are included in the report. This year’s …
The anthropogenic emissions of methane (CH4), after those of carbon dioxide (CO2), are the second most important man-made source of greenhouse gases contributing to global warming. Over a 20-year timescale, each kilogram of methane emitted has a global warming potential more than 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Reducing methane emissions would help to …
Daniel is a postdoctoral research associate working at the University of Leicester, and part of the UK National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO). For the past three years, he has worked at Space Park Leicester, where he helped set up the SPENSER laboratory for the study of atmospheric gases through infrared spectroscopy. He has experience …
The European Space Agency (ESA) is organising an Earth Observation (EO) training course in collaboration with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System, SIOS. The course will take place from 9-14 September 2024 at the Svalbard Science Centre in Svalbard, Norway. The training is designed to promote and …
