Featuring how the Sentinel missions of the European Union's Copernicus programme, particularly Sentinel-1, have become a game-changer to the Danish Meteorological Institute's Ice Service and to the project – Automated Sea Ice Products – creating a robust, automated sea ice information service, solving the main needs of Arctic marine users.

The Greenland ice sheet is losing mass seven times faster than in the 1990s, according to new research.

Copernicus Sentinel-5P NRT data users are informed that due to a scheduled ground segment upgrade on 11 December the near real time (NRT) processing of orbits 11192 to 11196 are be likely to be impacted. 

The timelines of the Copernicus Sentinel-5P product Methane (CH4) will be improved as from 11 December.

Copernicus Sentinel-1A was unavailable on 3 December from 08:35 UTC to 09:17 UTC, due to a SAR anomaly. No data were generated during this period.

As already announced on the news of 18 November, infrastructure security maintenance activities are scheduled on:

• Tuesday, 3 December
• Wednesday, 4 December.

Due to a Copernicus Sentinel-5P Ground Segment anomaly, L2__CO____ products have not been processed in the NRT timeliness between orbit 10933 - 10966 (inclusive).

We are pleased to announce a new forthcoming processing baseline for Copernicus Sentinel-3 SLSTR products, which includes the following highlights:

• L1: New method for re-gridding instrument pixels
• L1: Cosmetic filling method update
• L1: Improved geometric calibration for F1 channel (reduced spatial offset between F1 and S7)
• LST: Improved performance of retrieval of LST measurements
• LST: Improved cloud flagging

The Sentinel-2 Validation Team (S2VT) meeting is a forum for the Copernicus Sentinel-2 scientific and user community to present and share results of on-going activities related to validation of Sentinel-2 products and to foster cooperation and synergies among Cal/Val teams. The 4th S2VT meeting will be hosted in Darmstadt (Germany) at ESA-ESOC (European Space Operation Centre) premises from 3 to 5 March 2020.