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, ...
06 October 2021
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 is awarded for climate and other complex phenomena
... he led the development of physical models of the Earth’s climate and was the first person to explore the interaction between radiation... both natural phenomena and human activities imprint in the climate. His methods have been used to prove that the...
March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
... is, could this solve our problems now, with global climate change? There’s a branch of science called geoengineering but... Venus Indeed, most of the actions required to prevent global climate change are things we ought to do anyway. Actions that would...
November 2021
Space in support of sustainable development
... systems as part of the cross-sector discussion. Lastly, awareness raising initiatives about the role of space science on climate change monitoring, satellite imagery and data could inform stakeholders and the general public to undertake actions...
