Climate Change - Thematic Areas - Sentinel Online
New Ocean Monitoring Indicators provide key reference for climate change
21 March 2018
The Copernicus Marine Service has released a new ocean information...
Negribreen on the move
12 May 2017
Rapid acceleration of an Arctic glacier over the past year has been detected by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites.
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Improving land cover mapping with Sentinel-2
24 March 2017
With the pair of Sentinel-2 satellites now in orbit, users are looking ahead to mapping global...
Sentinel-3A rides the waves
04 March 2016
Following the first impressive images from Sentinel-3A, this latest Copernicus satellite is now showing us how...
Sentinel-3 and the ocean carbon conundrum
25 February 2016
Each year, about a quarter of the carbon dioxide we release into the atmosphere ends up in the...
World’s corals under threat
24 February 2016
The current El Niño weather phenomenon is taking its toll on coral reefs, prompting a field campaign to the...
International effort reveals Greenland ice loss
13 November 2015
One of Greenland's glaciers is losing five billion tonnes of ice a year to the ocean,...
Help wanted on tracking biodiversity from space
12 August 2015
Conservation organisations and space agencies are being called on to join forces to decide...
Satellites catch Austfonna shedding ice
23 January 2015
Rapid ice loss in a remote Arctic ice cap has been detected by the Sentinel-1A and CryoSat...
How does a beer cooler help understand climate?
09 July 2014
While engineers have almost finished building the first Sentinel-3 satellite for ocean...
Satellite altimetry-based sea level rise over the past 20 years
01 July 2014
Sea-level rise is one of the most threatening consequences of ongoing global...
Monitoring climate change from space
13 June 2014
How do measurements from satellites flying above Earth provide essential information on the effects of...
Sentinel satellite spies ice cap speed-up
08 May 2014
Melting at one of the largest ice caps on Earth has produced a big jump in its flow speed, satellite...
Coastal studies will benefit from the COASTALT project
28 March 2014
Exploitation of radar altimeter data over coastal areas has always been problematic as...
Pine Island retreat on the radar
27 March 2014
Twenty years of radar coverage from ESA satellites have been used to measure the rapid thinning of...
First satellite detection of volcanic OCIO
25 March 2014
A large volcanic OClO and BrO plume could be tracked from ENVISAT SCIAMACHY jointly with EOS Aura...
Using MERIS for the retrieval of suspended sediments in optically complex waters
07 March 2014
Estuaries along many of the world's diverse coastlines,...
Mesoscale marine atmospheric boundary layer phenomena observed by Envisat ASAR
24 February 2014
Mesoscale marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL) phenomena...
Is global warming hiding underwater?
07 February 2014
Satellite observations of global sea-surface temperature show that a 30-year upward trend has slowed...
World Wetlands Day focuses on agriculture
31 January 2014
The 2014 World Wetlands Day highlights the need for wetlands and the agriculture sector to work...