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Atlantic Meridional Transect Ocean Flux from satellite campaign (AMT4OceanSatFlux)

Prime company: Plymouth Marine Laboratory (GB)

This project estimates of the air-sea flux of CO2 calculated from a suite of satellite products over a range of Atlantic Ocean provinces. It deploys state-of-the-art eddy co-variance methods to provide independent verification of satellite estimates of CO2 gas exchange over the Atlantic Ocean. The project provides Fiducial Reference Measurements from the AMT28 (from 23rd …

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GOCE gravity gradients for time-variable applications (GOCE4TV-APPs)

Prime company: TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH (DE)

The gravity gradients of the highly successful ESA Earth Explorer mission GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state ocean circulation explorer), which have been reprocessed by applying enhanced calibration strategies in the frame of the ESA project GOCE High-level Processing Facility (HPF), have reached a very high quality level, especially in the long-wavelength spectral range where the …

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Andreas Schneider

“The fellowship provided me the opportunity to develop the first TROPOMI HDO data product and the first such product including cloudy scenes.”   After the end of the Living Planet Fellowship, Andreas was at the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), working on the development of a a novel balloon-borne instrument for the measurement of HDO and …

Pre-Operational Sentinel-3 snow and ice products (SICE)

Prime company: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND (DK)

Land ice mass loss is the largest source of global sea level rise. Since 1992, two thirds of sea level contribution from land ice comes from the Arctic. Roughly half of Greenland ice sheet mass loss is from increased surface melting. The fraction from surface melting is even higher for smaller Arctic ice masses. The …

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SIEMIC: Swarm Investigation of the Energetics of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA (CA)

Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Ivan Pakhotin. Ivan’s recent published work in magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling (MIC) using the unprecedented Swarm dataset has revealed that Alfven waves play a key role in MIC dynamics, with small scales carrying very significant amounts of energy. His recent preliminary work has further indicated that in fact most …

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PROMCOM: Production of lower tropospheric methane and carbon monoxide distributions through combined use of ESA Sentinel-5 Precursor shortwave infrared and IASI/CrIS thermal infrared satellite data

Prime company: UKRI Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (GB)

Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Diane Knappett. Global distributions of the methane (CH4) column average and carbon monoxide (CO) total column are observable by satellite shortwave infrared (SWIR) spectrometers through detection of surface-reflected solar radiation. Observations by ENVISAT SCIAMACHY and GOSAT-TANSO have been exploited extensively to investigate biogenic, pyrogenic and anthropogenic sources …

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PHYSIOGLOB: Assessing the inter-annual physiological response of phytoplankton to global warming using long-term satellite observations

Prime company: ITALIAN NATIONAL AGENCY FOR NEW TECHNOLOGIES, ENERGY AND SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (ENEA) (IT)

Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Marco Bellacicco. Phytoplankton is considered to be responsible for approximately 50% of the planetary primary production and is at the basis of the trophic chain. Large scale factors such as climate, ocean circulation, and mostly anthropogenic activities, affect phytoplankton biomass and distribution. For all of these reasons, …

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SHRED: Sentinel-1 for High REsolution monitoring of vegetation Dynamics

Prime company: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT WIEN (TU WIEN) (AT)

Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Mariette Vreugdenhil. Through its role in the global water-, carbon- and energy cycles, vegetation is a key control in land surface processes and land-atmosphere interactions. Vegetation is strongly affected by variability in climate drivers like temperature, radiation and water availability. Vegetation phenology, the timing of vegetation phases, …

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OVALIE: Oceanic intrinsic Variability versus Atmospheric forced variabiLIty of sea level changE

Prime company: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS) (FR)

Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by William Llovel and Alice Carret. Global mean sea level rise is one of the most direct consequences of actual global warming. Since the beginning of the 20th century, global mean sea level experiences an unabated increase of 1.1-1.9 mm.yr-1 recorded by tide gauges. Based on satellite altimetry …

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