The ESA Climate Change Initiative: Satellite Data Records for Essential Climate Variables

THE ESA CLIMATE CHANGE INITIATIVE Satellite Data Records for Essential Climate Variables

The ESA’s Climate Change Initiative is reprocessing and reassessing over 40 years of multisensor satellite records to generate consistent, traceable, long-term datasets of “essential climate variables” for the climate modeling and research communities. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00254.1 Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: https://doi.org/...

Satellite Climate Data Records: Development, Applications, and Societal Benefits

This review paper discusses how to develop, produce, sustain, and serve satellite climate data records (CDRs) in the context of transitioning research to operation (R2O). Requirements and critical procedures of producing various CDRs, including Fundamental CDRs (FCDRs), Thematic CDRs (TCDRs), Interim CDRs (ICDRs), and climate information records (CIRs) are discussed in detail, including radianc...

Climate and climate change data for Albania

Climate data initiative: A geocuration effort to support climate resilience

Curation is traditionally defined as the process of collecting and organizing information around a common subject matter or a topic of interest and typically occurs in museums, art galleries, and libraries. The task of organizing data around specific topics or themes is a vibrant and growing effort in the biological sciences but to date this effort has not been actively pursued in the Earth sci...

Multi-year Global Land Cover Mapping at 300 M and Characterization for Climate Modelling: Achievements of the Land Cover Component of the Esa Climate Change Initiative

Essential Climate Variables were listed by the Global Climate Observing System as critical information to further understand the climate system and support climate modelling. The European Space Agency launched its Climate Change Initiative in order to provide an adequate response to the set of requirements for long-term satellite-based products for climate. Within this program, the CCI Land Cov...