The European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2026 – one of the most significant geoscientific conferences in the world – will take place from 3 to 8 May 2026 at the Austria Center Vienna in Vienna, Austria, as well as in a hybrid online format. Each year, around 20,000 researchers from across the globe come together to present and discuss the latest scientific findings spanning all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences.
The ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) programme will once again have a prominent presence at EGU this year: numerous projects from the ESA CCI portfolio will be participating in the event with presentations, posters, and contributions, showcasing the latest results of their work on satellite-based climate observations to an international scientific audience.
The agenda for the ESA CCI contributions as well as ESA booth presentations can be found below. For further information about the event and the full programme, please visit the official EGU2026 website: https://www.egu26.eu/home.html
ESA CCI EGU Agenda 2026
| Date | Project | Time | Presentation | Speaker | Title | Location | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, 4 May | |||||||
| Land Evaporation | 08:35 - 08:45 | PICO Presentation | Diego Miralles | From ecosystem stress to circulation response: biophysical feedbacks during dry–hot compound extremes | M2 | Link | |
| Soil Moisture | 08:49 - 08:51 | PICO Presentation | Bettina Kroyer | Investigating the global representativeness of the ESA CCI RZSM product | PICO spot 4, PICO4.5 | Link | |
| SIRENE | 09:35-09:45 | Oral Presentation | Tiago Ermitão | Impact of Meteorological Conditions on Post-fire Recovery of Boreal Forests across Canada | Room 1.15/16 | Link | |
| RECCAP-2 | 10:45 - 11:05 | Oral Presentation | Dr. Thais Rosan and the RECCAP2 South America team | A Decadal Carbon Budget and Recent Trends in South America: Insights from RECCAP2 | N1 | Link | |
| Soil Moisture | 10:55 - 10:57 | PICO Presentation | Richa Prajapati | Advancing Multi-Angular SMOS Retrievals within Land Parameter Retrieval Model for the Climate Change Initiative Programme | PICO spot 4, PICO4.5 | Link | |
| Soil Moisture | 11:15 - 11:17 | PICO Presentation | Christopher Taylor | Evaluation and application of medium resolution soil moisture data over Sub-Saharan Africa | PICO spot 4, PICO4.5 | Link | |
| SIRENE | 11:45-11:55 | Oral Presentation | Taylor Smith | Predicting Instabilities in Transient Landforms and Interconnected Ecosystems | Room C | Link | |
| SIRENE | 11:55 - 12:05 | Oral Presentation | Lana Blaschke | Resilience Loss of Tropical Forests in Recent Decades | Room C | Link | |
| SIRENE | 14:00-15:45 | Poster | Chan Diao | Vegetation resilience is linked to moisture availability, temperature, biodiversity and canopy complexity | Hall X4, X4.27 | Link | |
| SIRENE | 14:00-15:45 | Poster | Teng Liu | The influence of data gaps and outliers on resilience indicators | Hall X4, X4.35 | Link | |
| SIRENE | 14:00-15:45 | Poster | Anton Schulte-Fischedick | Satellite-based Tracking of Resilience Change in South American Tropical Dry Forests | Hall X4, X4.28 | Link | |
| Biomass | 14:25 - 14:35 | Oral Presentation | Hannah Graham | Clarifying tropical secondary forest estimates: results from a growing reference dataset on post-disturbance regrowth | Room N1 | Link | |
| SATACI | 16:25–16:27 | PICO Presentation | Sarah Brüning | Investigating dust aerosol effects on mixed-phase cloud glaciation based on an intercomparison of satellite observations | PICO5.2 | Link | |
| Action4Cooling | 16:55–17:05 | PICO Presentation | Athina Argyrouli | Investigating the Shipping Effect on Marine Clouds Using Satellite Observations and Vessel Density | D1 | Link | |
| Tuesday, 5 May | |||||||
| Greenland Ice Sheets | 08:30 - 12:30 | Poster | Valentina R. Barletta | Review of Sea-Level Budget Components and Their Consistency in the Recent Literature | Hall X5, X5.261 | Link | |
| Greenland Ice Sheets | 10.45 - 12:30 | Poster | Christine S. Hvidberg | Linking observations and models to advance knowledge of melting ice in Greenland and Iceland | Hall X5, X5.297 | Link | |
| Greenland Ice Sheets | 10.45 - 12:30 | Poster | Leonie Röntgen | Exploring Earth System Model Forcings for Ice Sheet Tipping Point Experiments in TIPMIP-ICE | Hall X5, X5.293 | Link | |
| Permafrost | 10:50 - 11:00 | Poster | Annett Bartsch | A decade of land surface deformation monitoring across Arctic lowland permafrost regions with Sentinel-1 | Room 1.34 | Link | |
| Anthropogenic Water Use | 14:00 - 18:00 | Poster | Louise Busschaert | High-resolution irrigation estimates for maize across Europe from ensemble AquaCrop simulations | Hall A, A.98 | Link | |
| FORTRACK | 14:25 - 14:35 | Oral Presentation | Clemens Mosig | deadtrees.earth Maps: Tree Mortality and Disturbance Mapping from Sentinel-2 Timeseries Across The Globe | Room 2.23 | Link | |
| Biomass | 14:45 - 14:55 | Oral Presentation | Viola Heinrich | High Biomass Forests are more Susceptible to Bark Beetle Disturbance in Europe | Room 2.23 | Link | |
| Ocean Surface Heat Flux | 15:00 - 15:10 | Oral Presentation | Marie-Christin Juhl | Evaluation of global satellite-derived geostrophic ocean current products | Room 1.34 | Link | |
| Anthropogenic Water Use | 15:05 - 15:15 | Oral Presentation | Sara Modanesi | Satellite-based optimization of irrigation in a land surface model accounting for scaling effects | Room 2.31 | Link | |
| Anthropogenic Water Use | 16:15 - 18:00 | Poster | Andreas Wappis | How well do high-resolution surface soil moisture products capture irrigation signals? | Hall A, A.103 | Link | |
| Greenland Ice Sheet | 16:15 - 18:00 | Poster | Timothy D. James | Acknowledging different levels of audience engagement in science in research outreach strategies | Hall X5, X5.237 | Link | |
| Action4Cooling | 16:15–18:00 | Poster | Andreas Karipis | EarthCARE Stratospheric Aerosol Optical Depth and Its Impact on ICON Forecast | Hall X5, X5.85 | Link | |
| Sea Level | 16:30 - 16:40 | Oral Presentation | Lancelot Leclercq | Abrupt trend change in global mean sea level and its components in the early 2010s | Room F1 | Link | |
| SIRENE | 16:45-16:47 | PICO Presentation | Zen Qian | Reconstruction of Global Forest Aboveground Carbon Dynamics with Probabilistic Deep Learning | PICO spot 5, PICO5.12 | Link | |
| Fire and XFires | 16:50 - 17:00 | Oral Presentation | Lucrecia Pettinari | CCI Fire advances: global Sentinel-2 burned area product, harmonised MODIS - Sentinel-3 dataset, and extreme fires events database | N1 | Link | |
| Sea Level | 16:50 - 17:00 | Oral Presentation | Anny Cazenave, Chunxue Yang | Evidence of increased deep ocean warming from a sea level budget approach | Room F1 | Link | |
| Fire and XFires | 17:10 - 17:20 | Oral Presentation | Stephen Sitch | Modelling multidimensional causes and impacts of extreme fires in the climate system through X-ECV analysis (XFires) | N1 | Link | |
| SIRENE | 17:20 - 17:30 | Oral Presentation | Rasma Ormane | Characterising Uncertainty in Vegetation Optical Depth Retrievals Using the Land Parameter Retrieval Model | Room 2.95 | Link | |
| Ocean Surface Heat Flux | 17:35 - 17:45 | Oral Presentation | Estrella Olmedo | CCI-OSHF: A new ESA Climate Change Initiative to enhance ocean surface heat fluxes estimates | Room 1.34 | Link | |
| Wednesday, 6 May | |||||||
| SIRENE | 08:30–10:15 | Poster | Nils Voß | Improving LPRM C-Band VOD Retrievals Using Stratified Temporal Optimization of the Single-Scattering Albedo | Hall X1, X1.87 | Link | |
| SIRENE | 08:30–10:15 | Poster | Ruxandra Zotta | An improved machine learning approach to estimate GPP using vegetation optical depth and other microwave remote sensing observations | Hall X1, X1.93 | Link | |
| SIRENE | 08:30–10:15 | Poster | Bernardo Mota | Validation framework for EO measurements of transitory events based on robust statistics retrieved from non-simultaneous observations: A case study applied to Fire Radiative Power (FRP) products | Hall X1, X1.7 | Link | |
| LOLIPOP | 10:45 - 10:47 | PICO Presentation | Elisa Castelli | Using satellite-based Other Long-Lived GHGs datasets for climate models applications and climate studies : The ESA LOLIPOP CCI project | PICO spot 5, PICO5.1 | Link | |
| FORTRACK | 11:50 - 12:00 | Oral Presentation | Negin Kata | Assessing the role of tree mortality in shaping ecosystem functional properties | Room N1 | Link | |
| Permafrost | 14:00 - 15:45 | Poster | Rustam Khairullin | Assessing the tundra-boreal transition zone with Sentinel 1/2–derived landcover data | Hall X5, X5.156 | Link | |
| Permafrost | 14:00 - 16:00 | Poster | Chiara Gruber | Northern hemisphere permafrost loss documented through ESA CCI+ Permafrost climate data records | Hall X5, X5.161 | Link | |
| Biomass | 14:35 - 14:45 | Oral Presentation | Maurizio Santoro | Tracking terrestrial biomass from space: patterns, trends, and uncertainties | N1 | Link | |
| Soil Moisture | 15:35 - 15:45 | Oral Presentation | Nirajan Luintel | Soil Moisture Anomaly Standardized Index (SMASI): A multi-sensor drought index from soil moisture anomalies | Room C | Link | |
| Fire and XFires | 16:15 - 18:00 | ESA CCI Fire projects workshop | Lucrecia Pettinari et al | Information: Both FireCCI and XFires products will be presented, and feedback on those products will be requested to the participants. This will be a 90-minutes session of oral presentations and interaction with the participants. | Room 2.61 | Link | |
| Thursday, 7 May | |||||||
| Knowledge Exchange WP3 | 08:30 - 12:30 | Poster | Amina Marioni, Lisa Beck | Building Foundational Climate Data Skills Through Hands-On Training with ESA-CCI's Essential Climate Variables | Hall X4, X4.197 | Link | |
| Permafrost | 08:30 - 12:30 | Poster | Helena Bergstedt | Improved representation of Arctic tundra landcover in global data sets | Hall X1, X1.29 | Link | |
| River Discharge | 09:15 - 09:25 | Oral Presentation | Ceren Y. Tural | 20 Years of Daily River Discharge Estimation by Using Long Short-Term Memory | Room 2.44 | Link | |
| River Discharge | 14:00 - 15:45 | Poster | Sylvain Biancamaria | ESA CCI River Discharge precursor project: current status and challenges | Hall A, A.41 | Link | |
| River Discharge | 14:00 - 15:45 | Poster | Malak Sadki | Advancing Large-Scale Hydrological Modeling for Climate Studies through Multi-Source Assimilation of ESA CCI Products | Hall A, A.45 | Link | |
| GLANCE | 14:00 - 15:45 | Poster | Pierre Laluet | Do Earth Observation Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) provide a consistent picture of land surface dynamics? Insights from a multi-variable analysis over the Mediterranean region | Hall X1 | Link | |
| Knowledge Exchange WP3 | 15:20 - 15:40 AND 17:30 - 17:50 | EGU Booth Presentation | Amina Marioni, Lisa Beck | A Live JupyterLab Demo: Visualising ESA’s Essential Climate Variables data for climate change applications | EGU Booth | ||
| Greenland Ice Sheets | 15:35–15:45 | Oral Presentation | Sebastian B. Simonsen | DTC Ice Sheets: Regional Sea Level Fingerprints from EO-Constrained Mass Balance | Room 1.34 | Link | |
| SATACI | 16:45 - 16:55 | Oral Presentation | Marta Luffarelli, Analy Baltodano Martinez | Observational constraints on aerosol–cloud interactions in liquid clouds from geostationary satellite observations. | Room F2 | Link | |
| ESA CCI programmatic | 17:00-17:10 | Oral Presentation | Sophie Hebden | Advances of the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI): Progress, Integration, and Future Directions | Room 2.24 | Link | |
| River Discharge | 19:00 - 20:00 | Townhall Meeting | Angelica Tarpanelli, Sylvain Biancamaria | Long-term River Discharge From Space | Room 1.15/16 | Link | |
| Friday, 8 May | |||||||
| SATACI | 10:05 - 10:15 | Oral Presentation | Thomas Popp | First preliminary demonstration of a new climate indicator “aerosol and cloud cooling” | Room 0.14 | Link | |
| Permafrost | 10:45 - 12:30 | Poster | Antonie Haas | ESA CCI Permafrost time series maps as Essential Climate Variable (ECV) products primarily derived from satellite measurements and visualized within the AWI O2A (Observation to Analysis and Archive) framework | Hall X4, X4.68 | Link | |
| Cross ECV Karakoram and Glacier | 10:55 - 11:05 | Oral Presentation | Frank Paul | Glacier surging in the Karakoram continues unabated | L1 | Link | |
| Soil Moisture | 16:17 - 16:19 | PICO Presentation | Colin Moldenhauer | ESA CCI SM v9: advancements in global satellite soil moisture records | PICO spot A, PICOA.2 | Link | |
| Land Evaporation | 16:25 - 16:27 | PICO Presentation | Kwint Delbare | ESA CCI Land Evaporation: Towards a long-term consistent satellite-based global evaporation dataset | PICO spot A | Link | |
| Soil Moisture | 17:05 - 17:15 | Oral Presentation | Maud Formanek | The ESA CCI SM Freeze/Thaw Product: Global detection of frozen grounds from 1987 to the present | Room L2 | Link |
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