Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Antoine Hochet. Global mean sea level (GMSL) is considered one of the leading indicators of global climate change as it reflects changes taking place in different components of the climate system. Present-day sea level rise and its acceleration, currently estimated by high-precision satellite altimetry measurements, are primarily …
Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Henna Reetta Hannula. Surface albedo controls the absorption of sunlight and its reflection back to the atmosphere and space. The bright, highly reflecting surfaces such as seasonal snow cover and sea ice cover that expand to cover large areas during winter and shrink in coverage during summer …
The European Space Agency, in the context of the “FutureEO – Earth Observation Science for Society” Programme, and the World Climate Research Program are organising the Earth Energy Imbalance Assessment workshop, which will be hosted ad a hybrid event at ESA-ESRIN, Frascati (Rome), Italy, Monday 15 to Wednesday 17 May 2023. TARGET AUDIENCE …
A recently published study has produced the first ever global assessment of glacier mass loss using satellite radar altimetry, in particular ESA’s CryoSat-2 satellite and a breakthrough way of using its data. The results show that between 2010 and 2020, glaciers lost a total of 272 ± 11 gigatonnes of ice, which is equivalent to …
A recent paper published in Earth System Science Data presents a breakthrough in irrigation data sets obtained from satellite observations. The study, conducted as part of the EO Science for Society Irrigation+ project, focuses on three major river basins with varying irrigation extents and methodologies, namely the Ebro river basin in northeastern Spain, the Po …
Ice losses from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have been accelerating since the 1990s, according to the latest study published today by the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE). The study, which presents a 29-year record of ice sheet mass balance from 1992 to 2020, combines 50 independent estimates of ice sheet mass …
The BICEP project is an innovative effort to better understand the biological carbon pump in the oceans using satellite data. By mapping the distribution of phytoplankton and other satellite-based products of different pools and fluxes of biological carbon in the surface ocean, the project seeks to improve our understanding of the role of the ocean …
The Hydrology Group of the Italian National Research Council has developed an innovative approach using satellite observations of terrestrial water storage, soil moisture and precipitation to predict runoff and river discharge – with the results published in the EGU Geoscientific Model Development journal. This outcome of several ESA-funded activities, including Stream, Ridesat and the merged Streamride projects, …
Ifremer and ESA are organizing an International Workshop on Marine-Atmosphere Extreme Events that will take place from 3-5 April 2023 at Ifremer, BREST, FRANCE. This workshop is being organized in the frame of the ESA Marine-Atmosphere eXtreme Satellite Synergy (MAXSS) project, whose objective is to maximize the synergetic use of Earth Observation data to improve …
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 …
