Course turned into an online event Updated 13/01/2021: In light of the developments related to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the direction from the respective health authorities, the European Space Agency and the Malta Council for Science and Technology decided to turn this course into an ONLINE event which will take place from 22-26 March 2021. …
For a better comprehension of climate change it is fundamentally important how well we understand the general condition (dynamics and chemistry) in the atmosphere. Aeolus wind measurements enable for the first time the derivation of atmospheric wave structures on different temporal and spatial scales and wind gradients in particular above the oceans, where wind measurements …
Windblown dust plays a key role in the Earth system, affecting climate, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, anthropogenic activities as well as humans’ health. Winds, acting as the main driving force of dust emission determine also the spatiotemporal evolution of dust plumes during transport. The proposed study, entitled NEWTON, aims to demonstrate the potential improvement of …
Stratospheric aerosols play an important role in the Earth system and in the climate. Through the scattering of solar radiation back to space and by heating the stratosphere through the absorption of thermal infrared radiation upwelling from the troposphere, stratospheric aerosols impact the radiative forcing and thus the energy balance of the Earth’s atmosphere. By …
From 16 – 20 November 2020, the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) with the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) have organised the second joint training course on Atmospheric Composition with a focus on air quality and data interoperability. The …
Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Carlo Arosio. The stratospheric ozone layer suffered a significant decline at the end of the 20th century as a consequence of anthropogenic emissions of halogenated substances. An ozone recovery has been predicted for the current century in response to the actions taken under the Montreal Protocol and …
Carlo is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bremen, in Germany. He completed his Master degree at the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2014, investigating the cloud signatures in the Far-Infrared spectral region from observations performed on the Antarctic Plateau. Afterwards he moved to the University of Bremen for a PhD in environmental physics, …
The ESA Methane+ project aims at exploiting the SWIR and TIR CH4 observations from different satellites in order to better differentiate between sources and sinks of CH4 on the regional and global scale. For this we will use the CH4 observations of TROPOMI on Copernicus Sentinel-5p, IASI on MetOp-B, and CrIS on Suomi NPP in combination with atmospheric inversion models. OBJECTIVES: Given the identified opportunities and challenges of …
Part of the 2020 EGU General Assembly (SC1.21), this course is an opportunity to learn about Copernicus data for Atmospheric Composition and to get examples how to develop your own workflows based on sample applications. Join online on May 26 at 10 CEST.
Trace gases are produced and destructed by physical, biological and chemical processes. This natural cycle has been perturbed over the past decades by the global population increase and by the related boost of anthropogenic activities. The composition of the atmosphere is undergoing major and rapid changes with significant impacts on a global scale, affecting the …
