5D Antarctica aims to produce a suite of state-of-the-art Earth Observation datasets to characterise how the coastal ice sheet and ice shelves in Antarctica have changed over the last decades, and to make use of these datasets to investigate the physical processes driving this evolution. This will provide the first integrated assessment of ice dynamic …
In the heart of the Swiss Alps, scientists are pioneering new methods to monitor glacier health with unprecedented precision. By harnessing satellite data and advanced modelling techniques, they’re gaining insights into the subtle changes in glacier mass balance, crucial for understanding water resources and the impacts of climate change. Glaciers are sensitive indicators of climate …
ARCTEX is a cross-disciplinary project that aims to use Earth observation to improve understanding of extreme events in the Arctic and the complex interplay between the atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, and land ice, with cascading effects on global climate systems. ARCTEX we will conduct three case studies in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean: …
This post contains educational material from the 13th Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing that was held in Innsbruck, Austria, from the 16th September – 20th September 2024. The lectures can also be found on YouTube by clicking here. Access specific videos (click on ), presentation slides (click on ), and exercise data (click …
Background The European Space Agency (ESA) is organising an Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing with the focus on Snow and Glaciers in collaboration with the University of Innsbruck. This course is dedicated to train the next generation of Earth Observation (EO) scientists and experts, working in the domains of snow and glaciers, in using data from Copernicus …
The European Space Agency (ESA) Southern Ocean-Ice Shelf Interactions (SO-ICE) project is a collaborative research project bringing together the ESA Polar+ Ice Shelves and 4D Antarctica projects, and the European Commission Southern Ocean Carbon and Heat Impact on Climate (SO-CHIC) project, in order to improve understanding of the processes controlling ice-ocean interactions in Antarctica. This …
The Ice sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE) was established in 2011 as a community effort to reconcile satellite measurements of ice sheet mass balance. The purpose of IMBIE is to reduce uncertainties in ice sheet mass balance estimation through community efforts, in order to reconcile different satellite-based measurements of ice sheet mass balance and …
Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Kirk Scanlan. Expected sea-level rise through the remainder of the 21st century has been primarily attributed to the continued melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS). This loss of ice not only directly threatens coastal infrastructure around Europe but precipitates second-order effects such as proliferation of diseases, crop instability …
The Glacier Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise (GlaMBIE) project is a community effort aiming for a reconciled assessment of regional and global glacier mass changes towards the next IPCC report. Anyone performing research in this domain is now invited to submit their data (either based on altimetry, DEM, in-situ glaciological, gravimetry or combined measurements) as input …
GlaMBIE project builds on nascent efforts within the IACS working group on Regional Assessments of Glacier Mass Change (RAGMAC, https://cryosphericsciences.org/activities/wg-ragmac/) to setup and coordinate an intercomparison exercise of regional glacier mass changes from glaciological in-situ measurements and various remote sensing sources, including geodetic DEM differencing, altimetry, and gravimetry. Under the guidance of Scientific Advisory Committee …
