Conference Agenda

Status of ESA EO Science Strategy Foundation Study

Johnny André Johannessen

Nansen Center, Norway

Bridging scales with satellite data to improve monitoring of ocean health

Marina Lévy^1,2

¹CNRS, France; ²IRD, France

Observing and predicting changes in the cryosphere and potential impacts

Jonathan Bamber^1,2

¹University of Bristol, United Kingdom; ²Technical University Munich, Germany

Earth observation for global carbon cycle understanding

Markus Reichstein, Ana Bastos, Nuno Carvalhais, Gregory Duveiller, Martin Jung

Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany

Compound weather and climate events: Current state of research and future opportunities

Jakob Zscheischler

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany

Coupled Model Intercomparison Project evolution to support future climate assessments

Eleanor Anne O'Rourke

CMIP International Project Office, United Kingdom

Improving Copernicus forecasts of Arctic sea ice and icebergs with the ACCIBERG project

Laurent Bertino¹, Catherine Downy¹, Thomas Lavergne², Steffen Tietsche³

¹Nansen Center, Norway; ²MET Norway, Norway; ³ECMWF, Bonn, Germany

Explaining and Predicting the Ocean Conveyor - the EPOC project

Laura de Steur

Norwegian Polar Institute, Norway

Biological carbon pump and food web efficiency in the changing Arctic seas - ECOTIP project

Marja Koski

Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Ecological and societal implications of cryosphere reduction: Insights from the FACE-IT project

Kai Bischof^1,2, Simon Jungblut¹

¹Marine Botany, University of Bremen, Germany; ²Center for Marine Environmental Sciences MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany

Arctic sea ice thickness products; current status and future direction

Isobel R Lawrence¹, Jack Landy², Carole BELOT³

¹ESA ESRIN, Italy; ²UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway; ³NOVELTIS

Contribution of the ESA Arctic+Salinity Project to Arctic Ocean Monitoring

Estrella Olmedo¹, Carolina Gabarró¹, Aina García-Espriu¹, Verónica González-Gambau¹, Marta Umbert¹, María Sánchez-Urrea¹, Eva D'andres², Antonio Turiel¹, Laurent Bertino³, Roshin Raj³, Rafael Catany⁴, Roberto Sabia⁵, Diego Fernandez⁵

¹Institute of Marine Sciences, Spain; ²University Politécnica de Madrid; ³Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center; ⁴Argans; ⁵European Space Agency

Arktalas Hoavva- Highlights of Main Results and a Roadmap for the Future

Johnny André Johannessen

Nansen Center, Norway

Overview of EU research and related policies for Ocean and seas

Ivan Conesa Alcolea

European Commission, EU

Copernicus Marine Service - R&D activities

Stephanie Guinehut, Pierre-Yves Le Traon, Angelique Melet

Mercator Océan, France

Ocean ECV-related activities at the ESA Climate Office

Sarah Connors

ESA, United Kingdom

Future Missions for the Ocean Science Domain

Craig Donlon

European Space Agency, Netherlands, The

Evaluating the synergistic use of Sentinel mission data to derive terrestrial vegetation gross primary productivity (GPP): The SEN4GPP Project

Elise Belakebi-Joly¹, Jadu Dash², Booker Ogutu², Gregory Duveiller³, Luis Guanter⁴, Cédric Bacour⁵, Fabienne Maignan⁵, Dario Papale⁶, Subhajit Bandopadhyay², Martin Jung³, Jacob Nelson³, Zayd Hamdi³, Sophia Walther³, Vladislav Bastrikov⁵, Finn James²

¹NOVELTIS, Labège, France; ²University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; ³Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany; ⁴Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain; ⁵Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette, France; ⁶Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Viterbo, Italia

A new GPP dataset based on emulated land surface model simulations and driven by EO data

Cristina Ruiz Villena^1,2, Robert Parker^1,2, Natalie Douglas^3,4, Tristan Quaife^3,4, Andy Wiltshire⁵

¹National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; ²School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom; ³National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Reading, United Kingdom; ⁴Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; ⁵Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom

The BIOMASS Mission: the ESA’s forest mission

Clement Albinet

ESA, Italy

Towards the Copernicus CO2MVS, the CoCO2 and CORSO projects

Gianpaolo Balsamo¹, Richard Engelen²

¹ECMWF Reading, United Kingdom; ²ECMWF Bonn, Germany

An Earth Observation framework for soil carbon sequestration monitoring (EO4CSM)

Wouter Meijninger, Gerbert Roerink, de Wit Allard, Jan Peter Lesschen, Chantal Hendriks, Johnny te Roller

Wageningen University and Research (The Netherlands), Wageningen Environmental Research (WENR)

EU Research on Impact Forecasting of High-Impact Climatic / Geological Disasters - Links with Earth Observation Space Technologies (online speaker)

Philippe Quevauviller

European Commission, Belgium

Current and future ESA activities contributing to multi-hazards

Anca Anghelea

ESA, Italy

Roles of AI & EO for preparedness, early warning and anticipatory action with complex risks

Markus Reichstein

Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany

Overview of XAIDA (eXtreme events Artificial Intelligence for Detection and Attribution)

Jakob Zscheischler¹, Dim Coumou²

¹Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany; ²VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Early action : utilisation des données spatiales

Alix Roumagnac

Predict Services, France

The synergistic use of multi-source Earth Observation (EO) and field data to understand crop response to multiple stressors: The EO4Cerealstress Project

Booker Ogutu¹, Jadu Dash¹, Zaib Un Nisa¹, Victor Francisco Rodriguez-Galiano², Clement Atzberger³, Omid Ghorbanzadeh³, Aaron Berg⁴, Catherine Champagne⁵, Roshanak Darvishzadeh⁶, Andy Nelson⁶, Ewelina Dobrowolska⁷, Espen Volden⁷

¹School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, United Kingdom; ²Department of Physical Geography, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain; ³University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria; ⁴Depratment of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada; ⁵Agriculture Canada, Ontario, Canada; ⁶Department of Natural Resources, ITC-University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands; ⁷European Space Agency, ESRIN-Frascati, Italy

Towards a European System for real-time observation of bioaerosols in the air: a SYLVA project

Mikhail Sofiev, SYLVA Consortium

Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland

EARTH OBSERVATIONS in SUPPORT of GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY

Sven Gilliams

GEOGLAM, Switzerland

ALtimetry for BAthymetry and Tide Retrievals for the Southern Ocean, Sea ice and ice Shelves - The ESA ALBATROSS project

Carole BELOT¹, Ole ANDERSEN², Michel TSAMADOS³, Geir MOHOLDT⁴, Eva LE MERLE¹, Florent LYARD⁵, Marco RESTANO⁶, Jerome BENVENISTE⁶

¹NOVELTIS; ²DTU; ³UCL; ⁴NPI; ⁵LEGOS; ⁶ESA

Antarctic sea ice thickness from EO altimeters

Sara Fleury¹, Marion Bocquet¹, Florent Garnier¹, Ole Andersen², Michel Tsamados³

¹LEGOS/CNRS, France; ²DTU, Danmark; ³UCL, England

Southern Ocean dynamic ocean topography and geostrophic currents from CryoSat-2

Ole Andersen¹, Michel Tsamados², Sara Flury³, Stine Rose¹

¹DTU Space, Denmark; ²UCL, London, Great Britain; ³LEGOS, Toulouse, France

SO-FRESH project: First satellite regional Sea Surface Salinity maps for further understanding of the Southern Ocean dynamics

Veronica Gonzalez-Gambau¹, Alessandro Silvano², Estrella Olmedo¹, Cristina Gonzalez-Haro¹, Aina Garcia-Espriu¹, Antonio Turiel¹, Carolina Gabarró¹, Rafael Catany³, Alberto Naveira-Garabato², Benjamin Allen³

¹Barcelona Expert Center, Institute of Marine Sciences, CSIC, Spain; ²University of Southampton; ³ARGANS Limited

Synergy between EU and ESA activities: SO-CHIC and SO-FRESH

Alessandro Silvano¹, Alberto Naveira Garabato¹, Rafael Catany², Antonio Turiel³, Veronica Gonzales³, Estrella Olmedo³

¹University of Southampton, United Kingdom; ²Argans Ltd., Plymouth, United Kingdom; ³Barcelona Expert Center, Institute of Marine Sciences, Barcelona, Spain

The CRICES project: improving our understanding of the physical, chemical, and biogeochemical interactions within the OIA system, our knowledge of polar and global climate, and the ability of society to respond to climate change.

Carolina Gabarro³, Risto Makkonen¹, Jennie Thomas², Estrella Olmedo³

¹Finnish Meteorological Institute; ²Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement; ³Institute of Marine Sciences, Spain

The Polar Regions in the Earth System (PolarRES)

Priscilla Mooney

NORCE, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Norway

Space4SafeSea - AIS Derived Surface Currents and Maritime Security

clement Le Goff, brahim Boussidi, pierre-yves Colson, gwenaele Jan, yann Guichoux

eOdyn, France

The” Clean Arctic” experiment: predicting plastic dispersion in the Arctic using novel altimetry data and regional modelling

Yannice Faugere¹, Pierre Veillard¹, Greg Smith², Miguel Ángel Morales Maqueda³, Marie Helene Rio⁴, Fabien Lefevre¹

¹CLS, France; ²Environnement Canada; ³Newcastle University; ⁴ESA

A data-driven approach to study the interactions between ocean dynamics and the marine ecosystem in the Mediterranean: the 4DMED-Sea project

Bruno Buongiorno Nardelli¹, Claudia Cesarini², Vincent Rossi³, Marina Levy⁴, Nathalie Verbrugge⁵, Ismael Hernandez-Carrasco⁶, Astrid Bracher⁷, Federico Falcini¹, Alain Arnaud⁸, Simone Colella¹, Daniele Iudicone¹, Emanuele Organelli¹, Michela Sammartino¹, Rosalia Santoleri¹, Leo Berline³, David Nerini³, Francesco D'Ovidio⁴, Roy El Hourany⁴, Clement Haeck⁴, Sandrine Mulet⁵, Eric Greiner⁵, Yannice Faugere⁵, Marie Isabelle Pujol⁵, Anaelle Treboutte⁵, Maxime Ballarotta⁵, Jeremy Augot⁵, Ananda Pascual⁶, Hongyan Xi⁷, Marina Tonani⁸, Ronan Fablet⁹, Clement Ubelmann¹⁰

¹Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Scienze Marine, Italy; ²Innuere Consulting, Italy; ³Aix-Marseille Université, France; ⁴Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France; ⁵Collecte Localisation Satellites, France; ⁶Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain; ⁷Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany; ⁸Mercator Ocean International, France; ⁹IMT Atlantique, France; ¹⁰Datlas, France

SARWAVE

Bertrand Chapron², Ferran Gibert¹, Albert Garcia-Mondéjar¹, Sergi Hernández¹, Ester Vendrell¹, Michel Guerra¹, Marcel Kleinherenbrink⁴, Alexis Mouche², Frederic Nouguier², Antoine Grouazel², Bjoern Tings⁵, Andrei Anghel⁶, Marcus Engdahl⁷, Fabrice Collard³

¹isardSAT, Catalonia; ²LOPS-Ifremer; ³OceanDataLab; ⁴Technical University of Delft; ⁵DLR; ⁶CEOSpaceTech-UPB; ⁷ESA-ESTEC

Monitoring the regional Ocean Heat Content change over the Atlantic Ocean with the space geodetic approach

Victor Rousseau¹, Robin Fraudeau¹, Michaël Ablain¹, Florence Marti¹, Benoit Meyssignac², Alejandro Blazquez², Odilon Joël Houndegnonto³, William Llovel³, Damien Desbruyères³, Matthew Hammond⁴, Francisco M. Calafat⁴, Giuseppe Foti⁴, Jerôme Benveniste⁵, Marco Restano⁵

¹MAGELLIUM, France; ²LEGOS, Université de Toulouse, CNES, CNRS, UPS, IRD; ³Univ Brest, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS); ⁴National Oceanography Centre; ⁵ESA/ESRIN

Sense4Fire: novel earth observation approaches and data products for fire dynamics and wildfire emissions using ESA Sentinel observations

Jos deLaat¹, Vincent Huijnen¹, Matthias Forkel², Christine Wesolek², Daniel Kinalczyk², Niels Andela^3,4

¹KNMI, The Netherlands; ²Technical University Dresden, Germany; ³Cardiff University, United Kingdom; ⁴BeZeroCarbon

S14Science – Amazonas

Sivasankar Arul, Neha Hunka

Gisat s.r.o., Czech Republic

Burning Questions: estimation of biomass burning emissions from space

Ivar van der Velde¹, Guido van der Werf², Dave van Wees³, Nick Schutgens³, Roland Vernooij², Sander Houweling^1,2, Ilse Aben^1,2

¹SRON, Netherlands Institute for Space Research; ²Wageningen University; ³VU Amsterdam

Autonomous multi-format in-situ observation platform for atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane monitoring in Permafrost & Wetlands

Tuan Vu Cao¹, Claire C. Treat⁶, Dallo Federico⁸, Benoit Wastine², Phuong Hoai Ha⁴, Hao Yin⁵, Thibault Rey⁷, Trung Duong³, Vishal Sharma³, Lona van Delden⁶, Hamza Shakeel³, Kerstin Stebel¹, Ann Mari Fjæraa¹, Stephen Matthew Platt¹, Tore Flatlandsmo Berglen¹, Muhammad Fahim³, Rune Åvar Ødegård¹, Huy Duong Gia¹, Masoud Hemmatpour⁴

¹The Climate and Environmental Research Institute NILU, Norway; ²Senseair AB, Sweden; ³Queen's University of Belfast - QUB, UK; ⁴University of Tromsø - UiT, Norway; ⁵Tegnology APS-TEG, Denmark; ⁶Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research-AWI, Germany; ⁷Azur Drones -AZD, France; ⁸Institute of Polar Sciences, National Research Councillor-CNR-ISP, Italy

Using earth observations to verify greenhouse gas fluxes in the EYE-CLIMA project

Rona Louise Thompson

NILU, Norway

Understanding and monitoring hydrometeorological extremes using Earth Observation

Luca Brocca

National Research Council of Italy, Italy

Paving the way from understading to predicting intense Mediterranean cyclones and the specific case of medicanes

Emmanouil Flaounas¹, Silvio Davolio², Christian Ferrarin³, Romain Husson⁴, Samira Khodayar⁵, Jonilda Kushta⁶, Mario Marcello Miglietta², Giulia Panegrossi², Florian Pantillon⁷, Shira Raveh-Rubin⁸

¹Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Greece; ²Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC), National Research Council of Italy, Italy; ³Institute of Marine Sciences (CNR-ISMAR), Venice, Italy; ⁴Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), France; ⁵Mediterranean Centre for Environmental Studies (CEAM), Spain; ⁶Climate and Atmosphere Research Centre (CARE-C), The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus; ⁷Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, IRD, France; ⁸Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Monitoring extreme heatwaves for improving climate resilience

Jasdeep Singh Anand, Agnieszka Soszynska, Darren Ghent

University of Leicester, United Kingdom

Challenges in using EO to characterise vegetation fires in the Global Fire Assimilation System of CAMS

Johannes W. Kaiser¹, Kerstin Stebel¹, Kjetil Tørseth¹, Mark Parrington², Enza Di Tomaso²

¹NILU, Norway; ²ECMWF, Germany

Drought impact assessment using Earth Observation

Emanuel Bueechi, Wouter Dorigo

TU Vienna, Austria

Yield Prediction and Estimation from Earth Observation

Emanuel Bueechi, Wouter Dorigo

TU Vienna, Austria

Upscaling in-situ sensor data for EU-wide monitoring of agri-environmental conditions and production

Isabelle Piccard, Koen Van Rossum

VITO, Belgium

AgriDataValue: Accelerating smart farming digital transformation via big satellite data

Artemis Voulkidis¹, Theodore Zahariadis¹, Ioannis Oikonomidis², Matina Rizou³

¹Synelixis Solutions SA; ²Netcompany-Intrasoft SA; ³SingularLogic SA

Agricultural emissions of CH4, NH3 and NOx as observed by satellites

Jieying Ding, Ronald van der A, Jos de Laat, Mengyao Liu, Michiel van Weele, Henk Eskes

KNMI, Netherlands, The

Application of the National Satellite Information System (NSIS) for monitoring agricultural drought

Radoslaw Gurdak, Jolanta Orlinska, Krzysztof Stefaniuk, Monika Mierczyk-Burke, Krzysztof Grotkowski, Wojciech Cyran, Katarzyna Galuszkiewicz, Jacek Jarzabek

Polish Space Agency, Poland

AFRI4CAst - Supporting Food Security and Food Safety in Africa

Stylianos Kotsopoulos, Emmanuel Lekakis, Evangelos Oikonomopoulos

AgroApps SA, Greece

Climate Change application for supporting port infrastructure and transport environmental policies by predicting atmospheric pollution with augmented GEOSS datasets of the Balearic Islands

Amelia Del Rey¹, Jose Antonio Clemente¹, Benjamín Molina², Carlos E. Palau², Cristina Alburqueque³, Maria Dekavalla⁴, Dimitris Bliziotis⁴

¹PRODEVELOP.S.L, Spain; ²UPV, Spain; ³BPA, Spain; ⁴ICCS, Greece

KNMI Satellite Observations R&D and applications

Jos deLaat, Ronald vanderA, Pepijn Veefkind, Ad Stoffelen

KNMI, The Netherlands

Towards a better understanding of the potential for early stress detection with sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence from tower and satellite

Gregory Duveiller¹, Albin Hammerle², David Martini², Mirco Migliavacca³, Katherina Scholz³, Karolina Sakowska⁴, Javier Pacheco-Labrador¹, Georg Wohlfahrt²

¹Max Planck Instittute for Biogeochemistry, Germany; ²University of Innsbruck, Austria; ³European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), Italy; ⁴National Research Council (CNR), Italy

Identification and description of fire emission plumes from Sentinel-5p observations

Daniel Kinalczyk¹, Matthias Forkel¹, Jos de Laat²

¹TU Dresden University of Technology, Germany; ²Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, The Netherlands

New Emission Factor Values Increase Biomass Burning Emissions Estimates in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado Biomes

Guilherme Mataveli^1,2, Matthew W. Jones², Gabriel Pereira³, Saulo R. Freitas⁴, Valter Oliveira⁵, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão¹

¹Earth Observation and Geoinformatics Division, National Institute for Space Research, São José dos Campos, Brazil; ²Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom; ³Department of Geosciences, Federal University of São João del-Rei, São João del-Rei, Brazil; ⁴Center for Weather Forecast and Climate Studies, National Institute for Space Research, São José dos Campos, Brazil; ⁵Foundation for Scientific and Technological Enterprise, Brasília, Brazil

A system for mapping and modelling forest carbon cycle and storage using in-situ and EO data

Jussi Peuhkurinen, Matti Mõttus, Jukka Miettinen, Tuomas Häme

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, Finland

Advancing Understanding of GHG and Air Pollutant Emissions through High-Resolution Airborne and Ground Based Imaging FTIR Systems

Hamed Shariatmadar, Martin Wooster

Kings College London, United Kingdom

Improved data-driven ecosystem carbon fluxes under moisture stress through synergistic Earth observations ?

Sophia Walther¹, Wouter Dorigo², Gregory Duveiller¹, Fabian Gans¹, Basil Kraft¹, Jacob A. Nelson¹, Wolfgang Preimesberger², Ulrich Weber¹, Ruxandra-Maria Zotta², Martin Jung¹

¹Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany; ²Tu Vienna, Austria

Effect of fuel and combustion dynamics on regional fire emissions

Christine Wessollek¹, Matthias Forkel¹, Niels Andela², Jos de Laat³, Vincent Vincent³, Daniel Kinalzcyk¹, Christopher Marrs¹

¹1TU Dresden University of Technology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Germany; ²BeZero Carbon, London, UK; ³Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, The Netherlands

Earth observation for permafrost affected Arctic coasts

Annett Bartsch¹, Rodrigue Tanguy¹, Anna Irrgang², Ingmar Nitze², Pia Petzold², Guido Grosse², Julia Boike², Julia Martin², Goncalo Vieira³, Barbara Widhalm¹, Clemens von Baeckmann¹

¹b.geos, Austria; ²AWI Potsdam, Germany; ³IGOT, Lisbon University, Portugal

Rain-on-snow monitoring with satellites across the Arctic

Annett Bartsch¹, Helena Bergstedt¹, Xaver Muri¹, Kimmo Rautiainen²

¹b.geos, Austria; ²FMI, Finland

Polar and cold regions research at the German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Celia A. Baumhoer, Sebastian Roessler, Andreas J. Dietz

German Aerospace Center (DLR), Earth Observation Center (EOC), Germany

FACE-IT: Developing adaptive co-management of Arctic fjords in transition

Kai Bischof^1,2, Julien Lebel³, Simon Jungblut¹

¹Marine Botany, University of Bremen, Germany; ²Center for Marine Environmental Sciences MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany; ³Nordland Research Institute, Svolvær, Norway

Glacial run-off opposes Arctic kelp expansion

Sarina Niedzwiedz¹, Kai Bischof^1,2

¹Marine Botany, University of Bremen, Germany; ²Center for Marine Environmental Sciences MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany

SuperIce - Super-resolution of sea ice thickness by combining machine learning and physical-based approach

Julien Brajard, Richard Davy, Catherine Downy, Anton Korosov, Yiguo Wang, Henrike Wilborn

NERSC, Norway

Insights from the SO Fresh Project and the first Sea Surface Salinity data for the Southern Ocean

Rafael Catany^1,4, Alessandro Sivano², Alberto Naveira-Gabarato², Estrella Olmedo³, Verónica González Gambau³, Benjami Allen³, Aina García Espiu³, Cristina González Haro³, Antonio Turiel³, Alexander Brearley⁵, Alexander Haumann^6,7, Roberto Sabia⁸, Renuka Badhe⁹

¹ARGANS, United Kingdom; ²University of Southampton, United Kingdom; ³ICM-CSIC; ⁴Albavalor, Spain; ⁵British Antarctic Survey; ⁶Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Germany; ⁷Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany; ⁸European Space Agency, Italy; ⁹European Polar Board, NWO, Netherlands

Low-cost wireless sensor networks for air quality research in remote and harsh environments

Federico Dallo

National Research Council of Italy, Italy

Changes in phytoplankton community composition in the Arctic estimated from 20 years of combined in situ and remote sensing data.

Katarzyna Dragańska-Deja, Joanna Stoń-Egiert, Artur P. Palacz

Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Challenges of InSAR DEMs differencing for measuring glaciers elevation change

Dana Floricioiu, Lukas Krieger, Barbara Schweisshelm, Codrut Diaconu

German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

Geothermal heat flow in Greenland

Judith Freienstein, Wolfgang Szwillus, Jörg Ebbing

Kiel University, Germany

CRISTALair, the CRISTAL airborne Demonstrator

Albert Garcia-Mondéjar¹, Ferran Gibert¹, Chris Ray¹, Clara Colet¹, Ester Vendrell¹, Adriano Meta², Matteo Desantis², Massimo Fodonipi², Henriette Skourup³, Sebastian Bjerregaard Simonsen³, Michele Scagliola⁴, Paolo Cipollini⁵, Valeria Gracheva⁵

¹isardSAT, Catalonia; ²MetaSensing, Italy; ³Technical University of Denmark; ⁴RHEA / ESA-ESRIN; ⁵ESA-ESTEC

Unique in situ measurements of glacial freshwater outflow during winter

Karina Hansen¹, Nanna B. Karlson¹, Ebbe Poulsen², Søren Rysgaard²

¹The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Denmark; ²Arctic Research Center - Aarhus University

Sea urchins as keystone species in the fjords under the impact of Arctic warming

Marie Koch^1,2, Simon Jungblut², Reinhard Saborowski¹

¹Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany; ²Marine Botany, University of Bremen, Germany

Optimization of Sea Ice Model Rheology Parameters Using Machine Learning

Anton Korosov, Yue Ying, Einar Olason

Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Norway

Airborne investigation of quasi-specular Ku-band radar scattering for satellite altimetry over snow-covered Arctic sea ice

Claude de Rijke Thomas¹, Jack Landy², Robbie Mallett³, Rosemary Willatt⁴, Michel Tsamados⁴, Joshua King⁵

¹University of Bristol; ²UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway; ³University of Manitoba; ⁴University College London; ⁵Environment and Climate Change Canada

Version 3 of the ESA CCI and EUMETSAT OSI SAF Sea Ice Concentration Climate Data Records

Thomas Lavergne¹, Atle Sørensen¹, Rasmus Tonboe², Courtenay Strong³, Matilde Kreiner⁴, Roberto Saldo², Anton Birkedal⁴, Fabrizio Baordo⁴, Jozef Rusin¹, Trygve Aspenes¹, Mari Anne Killie¹, Steinar Eastwood¹

¹Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway; ²Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark; ³University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States of America; ⁴Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

Advanced melt indicators from passive microwave satellite observations in Antarctica

Marion Leduc-Leballeur¹, Ghislain Picard², Giovanni Macelloni¹

¹IFAC-CNR, Italy; ²UGA - CNRS, IGE, France

Ice sheet elevation change datasets by the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling

Jennifer Maddalena¹, Mal McMillan¹, Alan Muir², Lin Gilbert², Robert Wassink¹, Tom Slater³, Joe Phillips¹, Qi Huang¹, Nitin Ravinder⁴

¹Lancaster University, United Kingdom; ²University College London, United Kingdom; ³University of Leeds, United Kingdom; ⁴Northumbria University, United Kingdom

Towards a flexible, global data assimilation framework for glacier modelling

Patrick Schmitt¹, Fabien Maussion^1,2, Lea Hartl³

¹University of Innsbruck, Austria; ²University of Bristol, United Kingdom; ³Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

Cryo-TEMPO: CryoSat-2 Thematic Products over Land and Sea Ice, Polar and Coastal Oceans, and Inland Waters

Malcolm McMillan¹, The Cryo-TEMPO Consortium¹, Jerome Bouffard², Alessandro di Bella²

¹CPOM Lancaster University, United Kingdom; ²ESA, ESRIN, via Galileo Galilei, 2 – 00044 Frascati – Italy

Surface radiation fluxes at the Thule High Arctic Atmospheric Observatory, Greenland, and comparison with CERES products

Daniela Meloni¹, Filippo Calì Quaglia^2,3, Virginia Ciardini¹, Annalisa Di Bernardino⁴, Tatiana Di Iorio¹, Antonio Iaccarino¹, Giovanni Muscari³, Giandomenico Pace¹, Claudio Scarchilli¹, Alcide di Sarra¹

¹ENEA, Laboratory for Observations and Measurements for Environment and Climate, Rome; ²Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice; ³INGV, Rome; ⁴University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Physics Department, Rome

RINGS - Tracking the bed of the Antarctic Ice Sheet margin for improved satellite monitoring of ice discharge and mass balance

Geir Moholdt¹, Kenichi Matsuoka¹, Xiangbin Cui², Fausto Ferraccioli³, Rene Forsberg⁴, Tom Jordan⁵, Felicity McCormack⁶, Kirsty Tinto⁷

¹Norwegian Polar Institute, Norway; ²Polar Research Institute of China, China; ³Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (INOGS), Italy; ⁴Technical University of Denmark, Denamark; ⁵British Antarctic Survey, UK; ⁶Monash University, Australia; ⁷Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Survey, USA

Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System

Ashley Morris¹, Ann Mari Fjæra², Shridhar Jawak², Bartek Luks³, Ilkka Matero¹, Christiane Hübner¹, Rudolf Denkman¹, Eleanor Jones¹, Heikki Lihavainen¹

¹Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS), SIOS Knowledge Centre, Svalbard Science Centre, PO Box 156, N-9171 Longyearbyen, Norway; ²Atmosphere and Climate Department, The Climate and Environmental Research Institute NILU, PO Box 100, NO-2027 Kjeller, Norway; ³Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Greenlandification in Antarctica: clouds, surface snow properties and melt over the Ross ice shelf

Nicolaj Hansen¹, Ruth Mottram¹, Sebastian Simonsen², Andrew Orr³, Xun Zhou⁴, Peter Langen⁵

¹DMI, Denmark; ²Danish Technical Institute; ³British Antarctic Survey; ⁴Scripps Institute of Oceanography; ⁵Aarhus University

Advances in monitoring ice velocity of Greenland and Antarctica using C- and L-Band SAR data

Thomas Nagler¹, Jan Wuite²

¹ENVEO IT GmbH, Austria; ²ENVEO - Environmental Earth Observation, Austria

Applying synchrotron radiation-based attenuated total reflection-fourier transform infrared to chemically characterise organic functional groups in terrestrial soils of King George Island, Antarctica

Siwatt Pongpiachan

National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA), Thailand

Svalbard Sustainable Climate Reference Observatory

Eero Rinne¹, Robert Ricker², Jack Landy³, Petter Ideström¹, Anna Staffansdotter¹

¹University Centre in Svalbard UNIS; ²NORCE Norwegian Research Centre; ³UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Ocean reanalysis as a mature tool to monitor the global and regional ocean warming

Andrea Storto¹, Chunxue Yang¹, James A. Carton², Gael Forget³, Hao Zuo⁴

¹Institute of Marine Sciences, National Research Council, Rome, Italy; ²University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; ³Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, USA; ⁴European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK