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From science to operations for the Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) mission (POSTPONED)

September 2 - September 4
ESA-ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1
Noordwijk, Netherlands

In recent weeks Coronavirus (Covid-19) has become an international issue. Accordingly, we have postponed the CIMR Science to Operations Meeting (originally planned from 15 to 17 April 2020) to the 2nd till the 4th of September 2020 at ESTEC subject to a favourable status of the Covid-19 situation at that time. We believe that this …

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Greenland and Antarctica losing ice six times faster than expected

According to IMBIE (Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise) most recent analyses, Greenland and Antarctica lost 6.4 trillion tonnes of ice between 1992 and 2017 – pushing global sea levels up by 17.8 millimetres, on track with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s worst-case climate warming scenario. Read the full story and Nature scientific articles …

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SMOS contributes to studies of melt in Antarctica

Monitoring of the melt season contributes to characterizing the seasonal and interannual climatic variations in Antarctica and is important for assessing the future stability of the ice sheet. Due to its 1.4 GHz frequency, SMOS can penetrate much deeper into the ice compared to other microwave imagers operating at 19 GHz: this implies that joint use …

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CryoSat maps ice shelf on the move

Scientists have developed a novel approach of using CryoSat to generate a unique time series of ice front positions for the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf – the second largest ice shelf in Antarctica. Applying a new method, called ‘elevation edge’, to CryoSat’s data has revealed that the entire Filchner-Ronne ice shelf advanced by more than 800 …

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Greenland ice loss much faster than expected

The Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE), an international team of 89 polar scientists led by Andrew Shepherd from the University of Leeds and Erik Ivins at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, compared and combined data from 11 satellites – including ESA’s ERS-1, ERS-2, Envisat and CryoSat missions, as well as the EU’s Copernicus Sentinel-1 …

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