About climate change


Mean annual cloud cover
 
Cloud climatology
 
 
ERS and Envisat watch out for symptoms of climate change in ice cover, sea level and sea-surface temperatures.

Archives going back to 1977, from the Meteosat weather satellites developed by ESA, can play a part, in revealing changes in cloud cover and other atmospheric features. The SOHO spacecraft records variations in the Sun’s brightness.

Manmade greenhouse gases arouse international concern as a cause of global warming, yet effects predicted by computer models still differ widely. With a view to narrowing the differences, ESA’s ADM-Aeolus satellite will measure winds at all levels and over all regions, for the very first time.
 
  
 
  
Last update: 12 March 2002


Related links

 •  El Niño (http://earth.esa.int/applications/data_util/CLIMATE/ENSO.HTM)
 •  Meteosat c/o EUMETSAT (http://www.eumetsat.int)
 •  Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/MSG/index.html)
 •  MetOp technical site (http://www.esa.int/esaLP/LPmetop.html)
 •  Monitoring solar irradiance (SOHO/VIRGO) (http://www.pmodwrc.ch/solar_const/solar_const.html)
 •  ERS instruments (http://earth.esa.int/ers/instruments)
 •  ADM-Aeolus (http://www.esa.int/esaLP/LPadmaeolus.html)