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Earth Surface Impacts of Hydrological Extremes along Global Atmospheric River Networks (ARNETLAB)

Prime company: Leipzig University (DE)

As the global water cycle intensifies, the Earth’s surface will experience more extreme weather and climate events. Increasingly intense and frequent hydrological extremes, such as heavy precipitation events (HPEs), will result in unprecedented alteration of terrestrial ecosystem processes. Prior research has succeeded to track and catalogue several weather phenomena that act as drivers of hydrological …

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Monitoring Atmospheric Anomalies from Space: A Topological Approach (MAASTA)

Prime company: FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE (FI)

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) has experienced an alarming increase since the Industrial Revolution due to anthropogenic factors like fossil fuel combustion and deforestation. Before the Industrial Revolution, atmospheric CO₂ levels were relatively stable, around 280 parts per million (ppm). By the 21st century, human activities have increased CO₂ concentrations beyond 400 ppm, reaching levels not seen …

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Methane plumes mapping with multispectral and hyperspectral high-resolution data

Methane emissions from fossil fuel production are a major component of the anthropogenic methane emission budget. Emissions from this sector often occur as strong plumes from so-called point sources, which include infrastructure elements such as flares, compressor stations, storage tanks, or mine vents. Satellite remote sensing represents a key technology for systematic monitoring of methane …

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Canada’s wildfire season begins

ESA’s World Fire Atlas, an essential tool in wildfire monitoring, keeps detecting and mapping active fires globally since 2019 thanks to the SLSTR sensor aboard Sentinel-3. The tool already counted 258 fires in Canada in 2024 up to 13 May. At the same time, the extent of air pollution caused by these wildfires are highlighted …

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AEOLUS+ PROCESSES

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG (DE)

The “Aeolus+Processes” project addresses three major objectives of the Aeolus+Innovation program of ESA: use of Aeolus data for atmospheric process studies, use of Aeolus wind observations in the next generation of atmospheric reanalysis (ERA6), and benefits of Aeolus wind observations for the modelling of the middle atmosphere. Furthermore, the project investigates multivariate effects of Aeolus …

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Joining forces on the complexities of clouds and aerosols

ESA’s EarthCARE satellite is set to launch soon, aiming to advance our understanding of clouds and aerosols and their impact on Earth’s energy balance. In response to urgent climate challenges, the European Commission and ESA have prioritized the science of clouds and aerosols within the Earth System Science Initiative, a coordinated response aligning research efforts …

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SMART-CH4

Prime company: CEA – Commissariat a l Energie Atom (FR)

Methane (CH4) is a potent greenhouse gas contributing significantly to climate change. Due to its relatively short lifetime mitigation efforts on CH4 emissions could rapidly and efficiently pay-off to limit climate change. Targetted mitigation efforts should rely on a solid understanding of sources and sink of CH4 at all scales, from the global scale to …

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AIRSENSE

Prime company: GRASP-SAS (FR)

Project overview AIRSENSE’s main objective is to enhance the understanding of aerosol and aerosol-cloud interactions. This activity is part of Atmosphere Science Cluster of ESA’s EO Science for Society programme, an element of the ESA FutureEO programme, which aims at boosting Europe’s excellence in EO science and its applications. One of the goals of this …

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OPEn platform for the Retrieval of Aerosol and CO2 from S5 (OPERA-S5)

Prime company: GRASP-SAS (FR)

The aim of the OPEn platform for the Retrieval of Aerosol and CO2 from S5 (OPERA-S5) project is to develop a totally modular open scientific platform for the combined retrieval of CO2, CH4, aerosol and surface properties based on GRASP (Generalized Retrieval of Atmosphere and Surface Properties) code with the measurements of Sentinel-5 spectrometer UVNS …

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AI4CH4: An End-to-End AI Framework for Methane Plume Detection and Quantification using Satellite Imagery

Prime company: C-CORE (CA)

Methane (CH4) is a significant anthropogenic greenhouse gas, second only to carbon dioxide (CO2) in contributing to global warming. It constitutes approximately 25% of the warming effect since pre-industrial times. Traditional methods for monitoring methane emissions rely on bottom-up approaches, calculating emissions by multiplying activity levels with emission factors. Satellites offer a more efficient alternative, …

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