Ocean salinity reflects precipitation and evaporation rates, river runoff and ice formation and melting. It is an essential variable for the Earth’s climate, because it influences ocean circulation, convection and mixing, through its effect on water density, playing an important role in the global heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere (Lagerloef and Font, 2010), a …
The “CryoSat Plus for Oceans” (CP4O) project, supported by the ESA Support to Science Element (STSE) Programme and by CNES, was dedicated to the exploitation of CryoSat-2 data over the open and coastal ocean. The general objectives of the CP4O project were: To build a sound scientific basis for new oceanographic applications of CryoSat-2 data; …
The objective of this activity is a consolidated and improved understanding and modelling of coastal processes and physics responsible for sea level changes on various temporal/spatial scales. In practice, this study shall combine several elements: Propose and develop an approach to estimate a consistent DT at tide gauges, coastal areas, and open ocean Validate the …
The Coastal Altimetry Community (http://www.coastalt.eu/community), that is the international community of scientists working on development and applications of altimetry in the coastal zone, invites you to the European Space Agency establishment in Frascati (Italy), ESRIN, for the 11th Edition of the Coastal Altimetry Workshop (CAW-11) on 12-15 June 2018, including a Coastal Altimetry Training for …
Data from Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission can help to gain a better understanding of the Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) dynamics in the Mediterranean Sea, a hotspot for climate change. Unfortunately, this critical area is strongly affected by Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) and systematic biases due to the coast contamination (also called Land-Sea …
An online environment has been developed in the last few years for oceanographers to discover the existence of all available and co-located EO and related model/in-situ datasets and to handle them jointly in a convenient, flexible and intuitive way. The current version includes more than 350 datasets and is mostly focused on the Agulhas region. …
As part of the EO Science For Society – scientific exploitation programme element, the European Space Agency (ESA) organised an advanced Ocean Remote Sensing Training Course devoted to train the next generation of Earth Observation (EO) scientists to exploit data from ESA and operational EO Missions (e.g. Copernicus Sentinels) for science and application development. The training …
An ESA Training Course on Radar and Optical Remote Sensing was held in Cēsis, Latvia, from 5 to 9 September 2016. The course was hosted by the Institute for Environmental Solutions (IES). A total of 30 researchers, MSc and PhD students and professionals from Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia attended the course. The training …
