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Synergetic Retrieval from GROund based and SATellite measurements for surface characterization and validation (GROSAT)

Prime company: GRASP-SAS (FR)

Reflectance of the Earth surface is one of the natural major components affecting climate. Surface interaction with incoming solar radiation and the atmosphere has a substantial impact on the Earth’s energy budget. Moreover, the accurate description of the surface reflection is crucial for different atmospheric studies including aerosol and trace gases characterization.   One of …

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Understand and mitigate impacts of 3D clouds on UV-VIS NO2 trace gas retrievals by AI exploration of synthetic and real data (MIT3D)

Prime company: NILU – NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH (NO)

Operational retrievals of trace gas column amounts assume (near) cloud free conditions.  However, the large pixel size of the satellite instruments (for example the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument on Sentinel 5P, TROPOMI-S5P, is 5.5 km by 3.5 km at nadir) imply  that pixels may be contaminated by sub-pixel sized cloud(s). Furthermore, clouds in neighbour pixels may …

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Water cycle changes characterised from atmospheric moisture recycling (WEATHER)

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER (GB)

Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Tim Trent. Water vapour is an essential greenhouse gas in the Earth climate system, acting as a natural feedback mechanism for carbon dioxide forcing. Critical to the development of cloud and precipitation, water vapour also has a significant influence and impact on surface fluxes and radiative balance. Water vapour …

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Carbon dioxide emission plumes from a large power station detected from space

Researchers at the Finnish Meteorological Institute developed a new methodology to derive source-specific NOₓ-to-CO₂ emission ratios using satellite observations. The method was applied to Matimba power station in South-Africa. The results can be used to estimate carbon dioxide emissions. Missions to observe CO2 plumes Since the Paris agreement was adopted in 2015, the role of …

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SEN4CARBON Theme 2: Fire Dynamics (SENSE4FIRE)

Prime company: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DRESDEN (DE)

Based on the new possibilities of the Sentinel series of satellites, this project aims to develop a highly novel approach to derive global fire emissions estimates based on the characterisation of individual fires and their behaviour. These data will be combined with bottom-up estimates of fuel and combustion and top-down constraints on total carbon emissions …

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SEN4CARBON Theme 1: Terrestrial Gross Primary Production (SEN4GPP)

Prime company: NOVELTIS SAS (FR)

The objective of the Sen4GPP project is to assess time-space variability of terrestrial gross primary production  (GPP) of terrestrial ecosystems by a synergistic exploitation of the complementary information provided by  the Sentinel missions (Sentinel-2, Sentinel-3 and Sentinel-5P) at multiple spatial and temporal resolutions, as well as other Earth Observation and in situ data.

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Earth Observation for Air Quality and Health ‘AlpAirEO’ – Alps regional initiative

Prime company: DLR – GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER (DE)

Recently, the European Environmental Agency (EEA) reported that air pollution contributed to 400.000 annual deaths in the EU. The Alps are special. They host 14 million people and attract many tourists and businesses. Due to the diverse landscape and climate, pollution hotspots can develop in certain areas while pristine environments prevail throughout most of the high …

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PRISMA + S5P demonstration for COVID-19 studies

Prime company: GRASP-SAS (FR)

Recent climate remote study showed essential effect of COVID-19 on trace gases emissions, in particular, of NO2 and CO2. In Europe, Italy was one of the first countries to be infected by the COVID-19 virus, starting in the beginning of February 2020, and numbers soaring up to over 100,000 infections and 20,000 deaths by mid-April. …

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Methane+

Prime company: Netherlands Institute for Space Research (NWO-I) (NL)

The ESA Methane+ project aims at exploiting the SWIR and TIR CH4 observations from different satellites in order to better differentiate between sources and sinks of CH4 on the regional and global scale. For this we will use the CH4 observations of TROPOMI on Copernicus Sentinel-5p, IASI on MetOp-B, and CrIS on Suomi NPP in combination with atmospheric inversion models. OBJECTIVES: Given the identified opportunities and challenges of …

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Volcanic monItoring using SenTinel sensors by an integrated Approach (VISTA)

Prime company: GEO-K SRL (IT)

Volcanic monItoring using SenTinel sensors by an integrated Approach (VISTA) project is aimed at developing a novel ensemble of algorithms to completely characterized the effects of volcanic emissions on land and atmosphere. Volcanic activity is observed worldwide with a variety of remote sensing instruments, each one with advantages and drawbacks. Because a single remote sensing …

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