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ESA Polar Science Collocation Meeting

November 23, 2022 @ 09:30 - November 25, 2022 @ 13:00 UTC+2
ESA-ESRIN, Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy

Background 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 the polar regions and develop of the next generation of polar observations from …

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ESA Training Course on Arctic Methane and Permafrost 2022

September 19, 2022 - September 23, 2022

The European Space Agency (ESA) organised an Earth Observation (EO) training course in collaboration with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The course took place from 19 – 23 September 2022 at the premises of the Andoya Space Centre (ASC) in Andenes, Norway. The training was designed to promote and disseminate EO data and information-based …

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Open Science Data Catalogue

A catalogue of publicly available geoscience products, datasets and resources developed in the frame of scientific research projects funded by ESA EO. Products vary in geographical and temporal extent, production methodology, validation and quality.

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GLACIERS MASS BALANCE INTERCOMPARISON EXERCISE (GLAMBIE)

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH (CH)

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 …

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Melt-albedo feedback on Greenland ice sheet

What is the mechanism linking the unexpected August 2021 rainfall on Greenland with snow and ice melt on the ice sheet? Researchers from GEUS (Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland), leading the Pre-Operational Sentinel-3 snow and ice products (SICE) project, highlighted a feedback framework where, before the rain, warm atmospheric rivers triggered melting which exposed darker …

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Scientists Training and Education

Join us and slide into the cryosphere

Amongst all medal winners and a number of exciting athletes personal stories at the Beijing winter Olympics, now coming to an end, a prominent actor has raised to the podium: snow. Being it for the environmental impact of the almost entirely human-made snow of the ski and snowboarding courses or for the athletes struggling in …

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Permafrost thaw: it’s complicated

A special collection of papers examining the physical, biogeochemical and ecosystem changes related to permafrost thaw and the associated impacts has been recently featured on the Nature Reviews Earth & Environment journal. One of the papers in the collection, describing how scientists from Europe and the US are working together to better track permafrost carbon …

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Meltwater runoff from Greenland becoming more erratic

  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 …

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Permafrost thaw could release bacteria and viruses

When considering the implications of thawing permafrost, our initial worries are likely to turn to the major issue of methane being released into the atmosphere and exacerbating global warming or issues for local communities as the ground and infrastructure become unstable. While this is bad enough, new research reveals that the potential effects of permafrost …

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