Welcome to the online course Winter, Water, Warming: Canadian SAR Applications. Watch the trailer here. This course will introduce you to how Canadians research, develop and utilize radar remote sensing technology for mapping and environmental monitoring. In five brief lessons, you will learn about early developments of radar leading to the Canadian RADARSAT program and …
A research, carried out as part of the Polar+ Surface Mass Balance Feasibility project, which used measurements from the Agency’s ice mission CryoSat, showed how Greenland’s meltwater runoff has risen by 21% over the past four decades, and has become 60% more erratic from one summer to the next. Results have just been published …
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 …
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 …
In this course we will introduce you to the role of satellite Earth observation (EO) technology and the data it produces in monitoring the Earth’s Cryosphere. The Cryosphere is the portion of the Earth’s surface where water exists in solid form as glaciers, sea ice, ice caps, and areas of snow. The first week will …
Made up of layers of compressed snow from over the last 100,000 years, the vast Greenland ice sheet acts as both a valuable record of our past climate and a bellwether for future climate change. This online course highlights how the Greenland ice sheet is monitored from space and the ground. You’ll look at the …
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 …
