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Impact study of COVID-19 lockdown measures on air quality and climate (ICOVAC)

Prime company: BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF SPACE AERONOMY (BIRA-IASB) (BE)

The global crisis due to the pandemic spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 that the humanity is facing since early 2020 led to unprecedented measures taken by different governments worldwide in order to limit as much as possible the number of impacted persons. Those measures include social distancing, banning of people gathering and travels, encouragement for …

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CITYSATAIR

Prime company: KNMI (NL)

More than half of the world’s population is living in cities. According to the WHO air quality database 80% of people living in urban areas that monitor air pollution are exposed to air quality levels that exceed WHO limits. Narrowing down to cities in low and middle income countries with more than 100 000 inhabitants, …

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AnREO: Retrieval of Total Ozone using OLCI-S-3 over Antarctica

Prime company: VITROCISET BELGIUM SPRL (BE)

The main part of the project is to develop a total ozone product for Ocean and Land Colour Instrument (OLCI) on board Sentinel 3 A,B. The product will be derived using the Sentinel-3A, B OLCI Level 1 Full Resolution data. The cloud mask, snow mask, and atmospheric correction procedures will be also developed. OLCI measurements …

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Methane+

Prime company: Netherlands Institute for Space Research (NWO-I) (NL)

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 …

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