Time to apply for the Earth Observation (EO) training course organised in collaboration between ESA and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL): deadline for application is 15 July 2022. The course will take place on 19 – 23 September 2022 at the premises of the Andoya Space Centre (ASC) in Andenes, Norway. Intended for researchers, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. On the east coast, several ice shelves disintegrated …
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 …
