Communicating Climate Change with the ESA CCI’s Essential Climate Variables



Training Description

This in-person training session, held at the Living Planet Symposium 2025 in Vienna, Austria, introduced participants to ESA's Climate Change Initiative (CCI) Essential Climate Variables (ECVs). Participants learned how to access and analyse these datasets via the ESA CCI Open Data Portal and the ESA CCI Toolbox Python package. The session demonstrated how CCI data can be used to illustrate key climate change impacts such as increased sea surface temperature, rising sea levels and the increasing frequency of extreme weather events.

The practical exercises span three skill levels, covering topics from accessing and visualising ECVs data, to analysing sea surface temperature patterns in a changing climate and visualising and interpreting uncertainties in satellite-derived cloud datasets.

Training Objectives and Topics:

You can access the Jupyter Notebook training through the GitHub links below, or via the link to the Toolbox.

Training Materials

These Jupyter Notebooks are available in read-only format on GitHub. To interact with or modify the content, you can fork the repository or download the notebooks to your local environment.