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Contribution of Swarm data to the prompt detection of Tsunamis and other natural hazards (COSTO)

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN (PL)

The main objective of COSTO (Contribution of Swarm data to the prompt detection of Tsunamis and other natural hazards) project is to better characterize, understand and discover coupling processes and interactions between the ionosphere/magnetosphere, the lower atmosphere and the Earth’s surface and sea level vertical displacements. Natural Hazards induced by tsunamis, earthquakes and volcano eruptions …

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Modelling inner Earth in 3D

We are realising the new global model of Earth’s lithosphere and upper mantle by combining gravity anomalies, geoid height and gravity gradients complemented with seismic, thermal and rock information

— Juan Carlos Afonso, Australia’s Macquarie University and Norway’s Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics

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Antarctic lithosphere and Moho depths study

Ice sheet dynamics is strongly related to basal melting and geothermal heat flow, which in turn is influenced by crustal thickness variations. On the other hand, the lithosphere of the Antarctic continent is still poorly known. Different datasets (airborne gravity and magnetic measurements, seismological campaigns) exist but mostly suffer from limited spatial coverage over large …

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3D Earth Science Meeting 2019

March 12, 2019 - March 14, 2019
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), 10 Burlington Road
Dublin 4, D04 C932 Ireland

The scope of the 3D Earth Science meeting is to discuss the use of satellite data in studying the structure and processes in the lithosphere and the interaction with the deep mantle and surface processes. Keynote lectures will present results from the 3D Earth project and beyond. The science meeting intends to collect feedback on …

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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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Fausto Ferraccioli – 3D-Earth project

GOCE gravity images are revolutionising our ability to study the least understood continent on Earth, Antarctica

— Fausto Ferraccioli, Science Leader of Geology and Geophysics at BAS

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GOCE gravity gradients reveal relics of ancient continents under Antarctica

The combination of seismological and satellite gravity gradient imaging enhance our knowledge of Earth’s structure, especially in remote areas like the Antarctic continent, where even basic knowledge of lithospheric scale features is incomplete. A research team from Kiel University and the British Antarctic Survey exploited the satellite gravity gradients measured from 2009 to 2013 by …

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EO Summer School 2018

July 30, 2018 - August 10, 2018
ESA-ESRIN, Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy

Global Observing Systems – Earth System Modelling – Data Assimilation – Global Change: these are the main topics for the yearly appointment with EO data, science and applications open to early career scientists (i.e. Ph.D. students, young post-doctoral scientists) who are specialised in a variety of Earth Science disciplines and wish to expand and improve their knowledge and …

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Earth’s squishy interior gives rapid rise to Antarctica

Parts of Earth’s crust are rising very slowly owing to post-glacial rebound, but using GPS, researchers have found that West Antarctica is rising faster than almost anywhere else in the world. And, ESA’s GOCE gravity mission has, in turn, helped them to understand that the mantle below is unusually fluid. Read the full story.  

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