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esaclimate@esaclimate· 14d

Over the past weeks, several new and updated climate datasets have been added to the ESA Climate Change Initiative Open Data Portal – Biomass, Fire, Lakes, Vegetation Parameters, and Precursors for aerosols and ozone. Full overview: climate.esa.int/en/news-even...

Global Above-Ground Biomass estimates for 2024, derived from the CCI Biomass v7 product.

MRBA60H: Harmonised Medium Resolution Burned Area dataset v6.0, 2003-2018. Comparison with other existing Medium Resolution datasets. Global gridded monthly datasets at 0.25-deg resolution

Map visualisation of global lake surface temperature data.

Map of Europe and Africa showing vegetation greenness (FAPAR) on 2012 06 26, with a colour scale from 0.0 (light) to 1.0 (dark green). Data shown in a vertical swath over the continents.

esaclimate@esaclimate· 19d

Antarctica's algae may not simply be disappearing, they may be changing season. Satellite data shows diatoms rising in spring but falling in summer since 2014–2015, with haptophytes doing the opposite. A regime shift with consequences for krill and the ocean's carbon pump. tinyurl.com/5d5emyfr

Six Southern Ocean maps show spring and summer changes in chlorophyll and phytoplankton groups from 1998–2014 to 2015–2024.

esaclimate@esaclimate· 20d

Partially disturbed tropical forests recover to 75% of their original carbon after 20 years. Forests regrowing on completely cleared land reach only 38%. A synthesis of 146 studies now gives countries the numbers they need for UN climate reporting. 🌿 climate.esa.int/en/news-even...

Across the tropical frontiers. Aerial imagery highlighting the diversity of tropical forest degradation and recovery processes happening in Ghana. Far left: agroforestry and secondary forest regrowth, middle: tree croplands and agricultural use, right: natural forest with less signs of human disturbance but rather individual disturbances. Credit: Johannes Wilk, GFZ (2025)

esaclimate@esaclimate· 21d

One day left to register for our webinar on satellite fire monitoring. Learn how @esa.int's Climate Change Intiative Fire project tracks global burned area and fire emissions and why it matters for climate system, civil protection, and environmental policy.🔥 Register here: t1p.de/xuyrj

False-colour satellite image of active fires in northeast Portugal and northwest Spain on 16 August 2025, with smoke plumes and burned areas highlighted in red.

esaclimate@esaclimate· 25d

Irrigation is the single largest human intervention in the water cycle, yet we struggle to account for it. New research under @esa.int's Climate Change Initiative presents the first long-term datasets of irrigation water use across four major regions: US, India, Australia, and Spain. t1p.de/unbk3

Maps of the four study regions considered in the work, for which Irrigation Water Use archives are available.

esaclimate@esaclimate· 26d

Europe just experienced one of the most intense heatwaves on record – also effecting our soils. This animation shows a global data record of Soil Moisture spanning 1991-2024, produced under @esa.int's Climate Change Initiative. It shows our soils are shifting unevenly and persistently. t1p.de/ror55

esaclimate@esaclimate· 28d

.@esa.int and @egu.eu have kicked off a new round of their Mentoring Scheme, pairing PhD candidates one-to-one with professionals for a year of dedicated career advice. 📅Applications are open until 31 July. Read more about what former candidates say and why you should apply: t1p.de/jw0j9

Text Image: Why should I apply for the ESA & EGU Mentoring Scheme? Here's what former participants say:

Quote from Suzan Dehati, PhD candidate at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education: “Over the past year, I had two mentors who were open about their own paths into ESA and encouraged me to look beyond my own research, and to see how Earth observation moves from satellite observations into climate services and real water-management decisions. (...) If you are a PhD student working in Earth observation, climate, water or a related field, I would strongly encourage you to apply.”

Julia Miller, Doctoral Researcher at SLF Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research & ETH Zurich: "My mentors inspired me with their perspectives on finishing a PhD and planning what’s next. Through ESA’s Climate Office mentoring scheme, I connected with people within and outside my field, and gained fresh perspectives on my own career.”

esaclimate@esaclimate· 29d

In our next webinar on 22 July, Emilio Chuvieco will present the aims and key results of ESA's Climate Change Initiative Fire project, which produces burned area datasets at up to 250 m resolution, providing one of the most detailed and consistent long-term records of fire activity: t1p.de/xuyrj

esaclimate@esaclimate· Jul 9

Earth's energy is out of balance. It absorbs more energy than it releases and getting worse, driving more extreme events. ESA’s Climate Change Initiative combines satellite data across land, ocean, ice and atmosphere to estimate Earth’s energy imbalance & surface air temperature. t1p.de/xsbti

esaclimate@esaclimate· Jul 8

Learn from one of the top 2% most influential scientists worldwide... Ranked in this category and recipient of the Rei Jaume I Award for Environmental Protection, Emilio Chuvieco has spent his career mapping fire from space.🔥🛰️ Benefit from his expertise in our webinar on 22 July: t1p.de/xuyrj

esaclimate@esaclimate· Jul 7

Many European cities recorded their highest ever temperatures last month. 🌡️ Explore satellite derived Land Surface Temperature data from ESA’s Climate Change Initiative and see how cities heat up more than rural areas. Our notebook guides you from data access to Urban Heat Islands: t1p.de/gyz84

Side by side maps of land surface temperature in London. Urban areas are shown with more pink and purple hotspots, especially in central London, while surrounding non urban areas appear cooler in yellow and orange.

esaclimate@esaclimate· Jul 3

More than 8 million km2 burn every year, giving fires a big share in global greenhouse gas emissions. 🔥 In our next webinar, Emilio Chuvieco presents the aims and satellite data products of the Fire project and how various stakeholders can use them. 🔗 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

esaclimate@esaclimate· Jul 1

Satellite data is most powerful for climate adaptation as part of an integrated evidence system – combining satellites, modelling, in-situ data and local knowledge. Key finding from a joint ESA & @ec.europa.eu workshop in Harwell. climate.esa.int/en/news-even...

Participants at the ESA and European Commission Joint Research Centre workshop on Earth Observation and the Global Goal on Adaptation, outside ESA ECSAT in Harwell, UK, June 2026.

Participants seated in discussion during the ESA and European Commission Joint Research Centre workshop on Earth Observation and the Global Goal on Adaptation at ECSAT, Harwell.

esaclimate@esaclimate· Jun 30

Arctic permafrost is slumping 23 times faster than in the 1960s and winter warming is the main driver. 📈 ESA's Climate Change Initiative high-resolution Land Cover Map made it possible to pinpoint exactly where slumps cluster across the tundra. Find the study here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Landcover map for the study area of both peninsulas

esaclimate@esaclimate· Jun 29

New: You can now sort your dataset searches by publication date. It is even easier to find the latest data products released to the ESA Climate Change Initiative Open Data Portal. Check it out now: climate.esa.int/search

esaclimate@esaclimate· Jun 26

The @esa.int Climate Office & @egu.eu Mentoring Scheme is now open for PhD candidates in Earth observation and climate science, offering a year of one-on-one career mentoring from ESA professionals across academia, industry, and policy. 📅 Apply by: 31 July climate.esa.int/en/news-even...

Promotional banner for the European Space Agency Climate Office’s PhD Mentoring Scheme, showing two people in conversation; includes EGU and eesa logos, notes one‑to‑one mentoring across Earth system and climate topics, and the URL climate.esa.int/mentoring.

esaclimate@esaclimate· Jun 24

From July 2026, @esa.int will co-host the @wcrpclimate.bsky.social CORDEX International Project Office, with Dr Rachel McInnes joining as its new Director. She brings over 15 years of experience in climate science and modelling to the role: tinyurl.com/2xux95tp

esaclimate@esaclimate· Jun 23

This new dataset offers an enhanced, globally consistent view of lakes as key climate indicators: t1p.de/evpyh Developed as part of @esa.int's Climate Change Initiative, it covers over 2,000 lakes from 1992–2023, capturing e.g. water levels, ice cover, and, for the first time, lake storage change.

esaclimate@esaclimate· Jun 15

Ensure your research results get the attention they deserve. The new EarthCODE Demonstrator shows how to retrieve and process climate data on the Earth System Data Lab (DeepESDL) platform and publish scientific results – keeping your work visible and accessible. tinyurl.com/4kjw377b

esaclimate@esaclimate· Jun 10

New webinar: Join Abigail Waring to learn about land surface temperature: what it is, how satellites measure it, and why it is important for climate research. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

esaclimate@esaclimate· Jun 8

New article on above-ground biomass highlights the Climate Change Initiative Biomass Jupyter notebook – a tool to access, visualise, and track forest carbon stocks at resolutions from 100 m to 50 km, covering 2005 to 2024 earth.esa.int/eogateway/eo...

esaclimate@esaclimate· Jun 5

Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay. @unep.org is calling for action with #NowForClimate. Forests, oceans and wetlands can provide solutions. Reliable satellite data helps us to understand how our planet is doing. Watch the video with @calbergel.bsky.social 🛰️

esaclimate@esaclimate· Jun 2

This study boosted agricultural drought monitoring: By comparing high‑detail surface soil moisture maps and a five‑year daily time series from @esa.int Climate Change Initiative, an ESA-funded team found that the different data sets broadly agreed on wet and dry periods. t1p.de/12a3r

Surface soil moisture and normalised indices per date of the product time series across the Occitanie and Tunisian study sites.

esaclimate@esaclimate· May 26

Are we modelling fires properly?🔥 A new study improves how a global climate model sizes wildfire smoke emissions to differentiate between normal fires and extreme fires. To make sure the comparison focuses on real wildfire plumes, the team used data from Copernicus Sentinel-5P: t1p.de/uarz1

Multi-panel scientific figure comparing global wildfire smoke aerosol optical depth (AOD) in 2020: two world maps show modeled AOD (AOD_STAN) and satellite-observed AOD (AOD_VIIRS) with darker shading indicating higher smoke aerosol, plus side plots showing AOD versus latitude and model-to-satellite ratios; boxed regions highlight key fire areas such as the western U.S., South America, and central Africa.

esaclimate@esaclimate· May 21

Why does the seafloor in the Gulf of Guinea vibrate at exactly 16 and 26 seconds? 🌊 A 60-year mystery now solved. The cause: ocean swells from Southern Ocean storms triggering resonance in fluid-filled cracks beneath the ocean floor. 📄 Poli et al. (2026) in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Proposed mechanism for excitation of narrow band seismic signals. Oceanic forcing at periods of 16 s and 26 s (orange arrows) produces static (red arrows) and dynamic (black arrows) loading associated with seismic waves from primary microseisms (black lines). These loads act
on fluid conduits that extend through the entire or part of the sedimentary layer and reach the seafloor at seepage structures. When the static and dynamic loading periods approach the resonance frequency of the crack, fluids may be set in motion (34), generating narrow-band Rayleigh waves.

esaclimate@esaclimate· May 20

🔥 This Friday, 22 May: ESA's Climate Change Initiative at #GISTAM26 — wildfire keynote (hybrid session) and on-site satellite data tutorial in Benidorm. 14:30 Keynote: us06web.zoom.us/j/8281952329... 15:45 Tutorial: www.insticc.org/node/Technic...

esaclimate@esaclimate· May 19

Register & upload abstracts for the UK Earth Observation Conference 2026! From 15-17 September, UK's Earth observation community will come together at the University of Warwick. Join us to share the latest science and innovations, shaping our use of Earth observation data: ukeo.org #UKEO2026

Promo graphic for the UK Earth Observation Conference 2026, 15–17 September at the University of Warwick, with a stylised glowing Earth.

esaclimate@esaclimate· May 18

Only 2 days left to register for our webinar which focuses on the 21-year ESA Vegetation CCI+ dataset. Find out how to use the data in your research and learn about leaf density, light absorption and long-term vegetation change from space: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Six-panel transect maps of CCI+ VP CRDP-2 FAPAR for 2004, 2012, and 2019: whole transect (top) and best-quality pixels (bottom), with grey areas for missing or low-quality data

esaclimate@esaclimate· May 13

❓What makes ESA's Vegetation CCI+ dataset unique and how can you access and analyse it? Join our webinar on 20 May to find out what insights this kind of long-term record can provide, as explained by Christiaan van der Tol. Secure your spot here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Four-panel plot for a Portugal forest fire: fAPAR and LAI time series show a sharp 2017 drop at the red star with gray uncertainty, plus seasonal cycles for 2017 and following years

esaclimate@esaclimate· May 11

Meet Christiaan van der Tol – science lead behind ESA's Vegetation CCI+ dataset. He transforms satellite data into insights on how Earth's vegetation has changed over the past 21 years. Join his webinar on 20 May: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...