October 2024
EO data - the fuel that makes climate action possible
...harness crucial financial and technological opportunities across industries. It’s that simple: data is the fuel that makes climate action possible. Detecting methane presents several challenges. Just like CO2, methane is both colourless and odourless...
June 2022
Sunshades in space could help alleviate Earth’s climate crisis
... a century. However, with net global emissions continuing to rise, negative emissions technologies are unlikely to prevent severe climate change. This leads to the second action to address Earth’s energy imbalance: reducing the incoming solar energy...
February 2019
European system for global weather forecasting and climate change detection
... meteorology, particularly NWP, whilst ensuring continuity in the long-term monitoring of factors known to play an important role in climate change, such as changing patterns in the distribution of global cloud, snow and ice cover, and ocean surface...
October 2017
Tracking air pollution and monitoring climate change
... the environment, understand and mitigate the effects of climate change and support civil security. A key objective will...the atmosphere will improve our knowledge of its contribution to climate forcing. In order to achieve the required signal-to-noise...
October 2017
Colouring our view of the oceans
...concentrations. Food chains Sentinel-3A now provides critical near-real time information for numerous ocean, land, climate and weather applications Under normal conditions, phytoplankton are vital to all aquatic life. Intrinsically, phytoplankton are...
March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
... satellites. W stands for “water”” and C stands for “climate.” GCOM-W was launched in 2012 with the Advanced Microwave Scanning...such information as a means of solving the issue of climate change. Climate change is an Earth-bound problem that, today, ...
