Tag: living planet fellowship
Anna Kontu
“The fellowship offered me the opportunity to focus on my own research work. The experience of managing a small research project is a valuable learning step towards managing larger projects.” After the end of the Living Planet Fellowship, Anna continued working as the Research Infrastructure PI of Arctic Space Centre, Finnish Meteorological Institute, in …
Daniel Billett
Daniel is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, specializing in magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere coupling. He mainly works with data from the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN), using it along with other instruments to probe the effects of ionospheric flows on the upper atmosphere. Daniel completed a Masters in Astrophysics at Aberystwyth University, UK, …
Olga Ortega Gelabert
Olga is currently an ESA Living Planet Fellow at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM, Spain). She graduated in Physics from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB, Spain) in 2012 and completed a Master in Modelling for Science and Engineering in 2014. She also worked as a technician at the Research Group of Ionizing Radiations at UAB. …
DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHY AND SATELLITE GRAVITY DATA JOINT INVERSION USING REDUCED ORDER MODELS (DYGIRO)
Prime company: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (ES)Geophysical observables (e.g. surface elevation, gravity anomalies, seismic data, surface heat flow, etc.) are one of the main sources of information used to make inferences about the interior of the Earth. Obtaining consistent models requires combining simultaneously different observable datasets into joint inversions. Among geophysical data, gravity data from ESA’s GOCE satellite mission provides key …
ASSESSING CRYOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE LINKAGES WITH EARTH OBSERVATIONS IN NORTHERN HIGH LATITUDES (CRYOBIOLINKS)
Prime company: FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE (SYKE) (FI)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 …
Water cycle changes characterised from atmospheric moisture recycling (WEATHER)
Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER (GB)Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Tim Trent. Water vapour is an essential greenhouse gas in the Earth climate system, acting as a natural feedback mechanism for carbon dioxide forcing. Critical to the development of cloud and precipitation, water vapour also has a significant influence and impact on surface fluxes and radiative balance. Water vapour …
HIGH-LATITUDE POYNTING FLUX INTO AND OUT OF THE ATMOSPHERE: SWARM, SUPERDARN AND AMPERE OBSERVATIONS (HLPF-SSA)
Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN (CA)The Earth’s upper polar atmospheric region is constantly bombarded with energy input from the interaction between the magnetosphere and the solar wind. This controls immediately visible phenomena like the aurora borealis and australis, but also results in changes to the composition and dynamics of the atmosphere itself. The total rate of electromagnetic energy per unit …
L-band Observations of Soil and Trees in Freezing/Thawing Conditions – LOSTinFTC
Prime company: FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE (FI)Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Anna Kontu. Passive microwave observations at L-band (1.4 GHz) can detect soil freeze/thaw status based on the differences in the electrical properties of ice and liquid water. This method is suitable for detecting autumn freezing, but during spring thawing the liquid water in melting snow confounds the signal from …
CASSIS (Climate Altimetric Studies with Sea Ice and Snow)
Prime company: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS) (FR)Since the 1970s, spatial imagery has allowed to witness dramatic changes in sea ice extension and distribution. However, the sea ice thickness (SIT), which is a fundamental variable to understand and predict sea ice dynamics, is still insufficiently observed. So far, the only possibility to observe the sea ice freeboard (the sea ice emerged part …