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News - Scientific Highlights
News - Scientific Highlights
Traceability of AERONET-EUROPE to the GAWPFR WMO reference for Aerosol Optical Depth
Within the IDEAS-QA4EO ESA project a precision filter radiometer (PFR) travelling standard was installed at the European calibration site of AERONET to provide continuous traceability of aerosol optical depth measurements to the World reference maintained at Davos through a PFR Triad.
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News - General News
News - General News
Introducing the Newest ESA Third Party Missions
ESA's Earth Observation Programme Board has unanimously approved the integration of the Federated Satellite Systems (FSSCat) mission, the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) instrument on-board the GEO-KOMPSAT-2B satellite and the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission, as Third Party Missions.
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News - General News
News - General News
New Campaign datasets available
A new set of datasets is available, acquired during airborne campaigns conducted between 2014 and 2019
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News - General News
News - General News
Charter on major disasters celebrates 20 years of operations
The International Charter Space and Major Disasters is now 20 years old.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
Aeolus set for Instrument Telescope Refocussing exercise
Aeolus’s telescope requires periodic collimation and refocussing. To this end, the Instrument Telescope Refocussing activity aims to improve the radiometric performance of the Atmospheric Laser Doppler Instrument (ALADIN)’s telescope by optimizing the throughput at the field stop, the smallest aperture where the return light has to pass. This is done through a change of the temperature settings on the telescope.
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News - General News
Around the world in eight balloons with Strateole-2
Strateole-2 is a French-US project supported by ESA that uses CNES superpressure balloons drifting around the globe to study the climate processes in the Tropical Tropopause Layer (TTL) and the lower stratosphere, helping Aeolus validation activities along the way.
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News - General News
News - General News
Aeolus data now publicly available
Last week marked an exciting milestone for Aeolus. On 12 May, its wind data became publicly available.
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News - General News
Forty years of heritage data highlight warming European lakes
In the last decade, climate change has taken centre stage in both the public and scientific arenas, as increasingly extreme weather and human impact on the environment have become more apparent.
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News - General News
News - General News
New CryoSat BUFR products for the meteorological community
From 11 May new CryoSAT NOP data will be disseminated by ESA to the Italian MetOffice.
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News - Scientific Highlights
News - Scientific Highlights
Earth Day: taking the pulse of our planet
While news of COVID-19 dominates headlines and many of us practice social distancing, there still remains the need for action on climate change - and satellites are vital in providing the key facts on this global issue.
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News - General News
News - General News
New SMOS sea surface wind speed products now available
The SMOS Wind Data Service provides, in near real time (NRT), surface wind speed over the ocean derived from the brightness temperature measurements of SMOS.
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News - Scientific Highlights
News - Scientific Highlights
Satellites providing clear picture of greenhouse gases
With increasing levels of greenhouse gases causing our climate to change, it is important to understand them.
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News - General News, Scientific Highlights
News - General News, Scientific Highlights
Flooding in southern Iran
Heavy rainfall has triggered flooding in southern Iran, particularly in the Sistan and Baluchestan, Hormozgan and Kerman provinces. The downpour has led to blocked roads and destroyed bridges, crops and houses – displacing thousands of people.
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News - General News, Scientific Highlights
News - General News, Scientific Highlights
Aeolus winds now in daily weather forecasts
ESA's Aeolus satellite has been returning profiles of Earth's winds since 3 September 2018, just after it was launched – and after months of careful testing these measurements are considered so good that the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts is now using them in their forecasts.
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News - General News, Scientific Highlights
News - General News, Scientific Highlights
Aerosol spread from Australian fires
Ferocious bushfires have been sweeping across Australia since September 2019, fuelled by record-breaking temperatures, drought and wind. The country has always experienced fires, but this season has been horrific.
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News - Scientific Highlights
News - Scientific Highlights
Space is key to monitoring ocean acidification
The UN World Meteorological Organization announced that concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached yet another milestone.