ESA - Arctic - Archive

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Earth's oceans

Enabling & Support

Webinar recap: Space solutions to ocean problems

03/08/2022 1635 views 5 likes

A lake that has partially drained on the Yamal Peninsula

Permafrost thaw: it’s complicated

27/01/2022 13016 views 118 likes

Satellites pinpoint communities at risk of permafrost thaw

09/11/2021 5589 views 101 likes

Greenland meltwater runoff

Meltwater runoff from Greenland becoming more erratic

03/11/2021 6950 views 67 likes

Thawing permafrost

Permafrost thaw could release bacteria and viruses

22/10/2021 36453 views 176 likes

Ice sheet in Antarctica

Satellite data provide valuable support for IPCC climate re…

31/08/2021 7182 views 79 likes

Victims of diminishing Arctic sea ice

Arctic coastal sea ice thinning twice as fast than thought

10/06/2021 4911 views 110 likes

CryoSat key to measuring sea-ice thickness

Arctic sea ice succumbs to Atlantification

21/05/2021 9935 views 133 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite

Contract signed to build Arctic weather satellite

09/03/2021 23581 views 142 likes

Polar vortex change

Aeolus shines a light on polar vortex

04/02/2021 14775 views 133 likes

Polar Arctic

Satellite observations prove crucial in new climate science…

02/02/2021 2351 views 49 likes

Earth is losing ice at record rate

Our world is losing ice at record rate

25/01/2021 18578 views 141 likes

Snowbox test roadway

Autonomous driving on intelligent road at Europe’s edge

19/01/2021 3621 views 84 likes

Average ground temperature 2007-2018

Long-term permafrost record details Arctic thaw

16/12/2020 7464 views 100 likes

Breaking the ice at European Polar Science Week

Breaking the ice at European Polar Science Week

30/10/2020 1593 views 50 likes

CRISTAL

Plans underway for new polar ice and snow topography mission

21/09/2020 7601 views 80 likes

The Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition will make a major contribution to Arctic climate science.

MOSAiC Arctic expedition reaches North Pole

09/09/2020 10360 views 83 likes

Greenland

Ice sheet melt on track with ‘worst-case climate scenario’

08/09/2020 25031 views 150 likes

Captured on 11 August by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission, this image shows Eureka in the Canadian territory of Nunavut.

Monitoring the Arctic heatwave

27/08/2020 7247 views 115 likes

Copernicus Sentinel-1C radar antenna deployed

Europe’s next radar Sentinel unfolds

07/08/2020 5380 views 51 likes

Sea ice

CryoSat taken to new heights for ice science

03/08/2020 3433 views 50 likes

Swirling iron

Magnetic north and the elongating blob

14/05/2020 29928 views 233 likes

Sea ice at Pond Inlet

Enabling & Support

A platform to protect Earth's poles

22/04/2020 1027 views 4 likes

ESA's ice mission

CryoSat still cool at 10

08/04/2020 4747 views 69 likes

Unusual ozone hole opens over the Arctic

06/04/2020 44541 views 169 likes

Greenland and Antarctica losing ice six times faster than e…

11/03/2020 17701 views 100 likes

Picturing permafrost in the Arctic

25/02/2020 14531 views 46 likes

Polarstern shrouded in darkness

Shedding light in the dark: radar satellites lead the way

16/12/2019 7302 views 74 likes

Greenland ice loss much faster than expected

10/12/2019 8547 views 47 likes

Bondo landslides, Switzerland

Satellites key to '10 Insights in Climate Science' report

06/12/2019 3471 views 38 likes

Steve over the picket fence

27/11/2019 10131 views 57 likes

Polarstern

A year trapped in Arctic ice for climate science

24/09/2019 6642 views 121 likes

Sea ice

Using artificial intelligence to automate sea-ice charting

10/09/2019 6111 views 71 likes

Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake

CryoSat conquers ice on Arctic lakes

05/08/2019 4808 views 88 likes

Arctic shipping routes

Enabling & Support

Enhancing satnav for Arctic voyagers

01/08/2019 1629 views 5 likes

Bathymetry of Chukchi Cap

Expanding our knowledge of Arctic Ocean bathymetry

24/07/2019 5634 views 58 likes

Non-linear tides in the Barents Sea

Modelling tides in the Arctic Ocean

11/07/2019 4974 views 46 likes

Meltwater lake

What’s happening to Greenland’s ice?

05/07/2019 6940 views 90 likes

SMOS joins forces with top weather forecasting system

12/06/2019 3989 views 56 likes

Greenland snow grain and albedo

Snow grain size – it matters

29/05/2019 7302 views 89 likes

Permafrost thaw

Satellites yield insight into not so permanent permafrost

17/05/2019 10222 views 127 likes

Tug-of-war drives magnetic north sprint

15/05/2019 20586 views 211 likes

Jakobshavn Glacier

Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier bucks the trend

14/05/2019 12607 views 118 likes

Global glacier mass loss 1961–2016

Glaciers lose nine trillion tonnes of ice in half a century

08/04/2019 13217 views 123 likes

Science key to taking the pulse of our planet

07/02/2019 4542 views 89 likes

Losing ice

Greenland ice loss quickening

06/12/2018 8420 views 132 likes

Analyse 40 years of climate data with CCI toolbox

Climate analysis toolbox updated

22/11/2018 3610 views 46 likes

New views of dynamic Earth

Three Earth Explorer ideas selected

21/09/2018 16502 views 85 likes

Jakobshavn Isbrae ice flow

It’s all go in summer for Greenland’s glaciers

13/07/2018 3801 views 52 likes

Antarctic sunset from Sentinel-3B

Copernicus Sentinel-3B delivers first images

09/05/2018 23172 views 154 likes

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