Presentations from the ESA Polar Science Cluster Collocation Meeting held on 15 – 17 September 2021. Day 1 – Wednesday 15th September 2021 EC RTD welcome, Ana-Maria Stan EU Polar Cluster, Nicole Biebow and Elaina Ford Cryosat status, Tommaso Parrinello SA Polar Campaigns, Tania Casal and Dirk Schuettemeyer CryoSat+ Antarctic ocean, Steven Baker, Jean-Alexis Daguze …
This ITT is part of the ESA Polar Science Cluster and aims at fostering collaborative research and international collaboration, bringing together different expertise, data and resources and ensuring that the final result may be bigger than the sum of the parts. More information, results and the complete set of projects is provided in the dedicated …
Climate warming in the northern high latitudes is twice as strong as the global average. Increasing surface temperatures drive significant changes in the cryosphere, reducing the snow mass and extent, seasonal frost and permafrost. Changes in the cryosphere are interconnected with changes in the biosphere, e.g. carbon uptake and release by vegetation and soil. These …
Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Thorsten Seehaus. Pronounced climatic changes have been observed at the Antarctic Peninsula within the past decades and its glaciers and ice caps have been identified as a significant contributor to global sea level rise. Dynamic thinning and speed-up was reported for various tidewater glaciers on the western Antarctic Peninsula. …
Thorsten completed his Physics studies at Julius Maximilians University Würzburg, Germany in 2011, with a focus on geophysics and a thesis on “Upgrade and testing of an experimental setup to study explosive magma-water interactions”. During the period 2012-2016 he was a research associate and doctoral candidate at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, working on multi-temporal remote sensing of …
The ESA Polar Science Cluster involves a set of different ESA-funded scientific activities addressing different aspects of Polar research. Through this set of projects ESA aims at working hand by hand with the scientific community to: Improve our observation capacity over Polar regions and contribute to develop the next generation of Polar observations from …
Estimating sea ice thickness is essential to monitor the effects of long-term climatic change and understand their consequences for Arctic ecosystems. The continued sea ice loss – widely observed through EO data since 1979 – is bringing to an increased Arctic maritime activity for which timely forecasts of ice conditions are required too, to ensure …
Develop and validate novel methods for Sea State retrieval from Sentinel-1 Interferometric Wide Swath (IWS) products. Produce experimental S-1 IWS Sea State products and demonstrate their value for coastal science, operational wave models, and selected test areas including the marginal ice zone in the Arctic. Demonstrate multi-mission EO synergies in the Mediterranean utilising ocean geophysical …
Ice velocity is an essential parameter to study ice sheet and glacier dynamics. It is needed to estimate the mass flux and discharge of ice from the accumulation zone to the ocean and hence influences estimates of ice sheet mass balance and sea level rise. Furthermore, ice velocity measurements constitute valuable input for constraining and …
The Cryosphere Virtual Lab is a system that uses recent information and communication technologies to facilitate the exploitation analysis, sharing, mining and visualization of the massive amounts of earth observation data available on the cryosphere. The system utilises available satellite, in-situ and model data from ESA/EU, Svalbard Observatory (SIOS) and other sources. CVL fosters collaboration between …
