Proyectos

Across the European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative (CCI) programme, there are over 25 Essential Climate Variable (ECV) projects. For information about each ECV, including their objectives, team members, news, documentation, data and more, visit the projects listed below.

...

Aerosol

The Aerosol project provides independently validated, high quality algorithms for processing long-term records of global aerosol properties from European satellite instruments.

Visitar Proyecto
...

Anthropogenic Water Use

This is the Water Anthropogenic Water Use project of the ESA Climate Change Initiative

Visitar Proyecto
...

Biomass

The Biomass project currently provides global maps of above-ground biomass for eight epochs (2010 then every year 2015 - 2021), and change products between years with associated quality flag maps.

Visitar Proyecto
...

Cloud

Generating long-term and coherent cloud property datasets that exploit multiple Earth observation missions

Visitar Proyecto
...

Fire

The Fire_cci project aims to improve consistency, using better algorithms for both pre-processing and burned area detection while incorporating error characterisation.

Visitar Proyecto
...

Greenhouse Gases (GHGs)

The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) CCI+ project aims to further develop retrieval algorithms needed to generate new high quality satellite-derived CO2 and CH4 atmospheric data products.

Visitar Proyecto
...

Glaciers

The main objective of the Glaciers CCI project is to contribute to the efforts of creating a globally complete and detailed glacier inventory as requested by GCOS.

Visitar Proyecto
...

High Resolution Land Cover

The HR Land Cover CCI studies and investigates the role of the spatial resolution of land cover and land cover change in supporting climate modelling research at regional scale.

Visitar Proyecto
...

Ice Sheets (Antarctic)

The Antarctic Ice Sheet project develops methods for producing long-term and reliable climate data records of Antarctica from satellite observations.

Visitar Proyecto
...

Ice Sheets (Greenland)

The Greenland Ice Sheets project produces data products of five ECV parameters, which are important in characterizing the Greenland Ice Sheet

Visitar Proyecto
...

Lakes

The overarching objective of the Lakes project is to produce and validate a consistent data set of the variables grouped under the Lakes ECV.

Visitar Proyecto
...

Land Cover

The Land Cover project critically revisits all algorithms required for the generation of a global land product in the light of GCOS requirements.

Visitar Proyecto
...

Land Evaporation

Generating long-term global land evaporation records using Earth observation data

Visitar Proyecto
...

Land Surface Temperature

The project aims to provide an accurate view of temperatures across land surfaces globally over the past 20-25 years.

Visitar Proyecto
...

LOng-LIved greenhouse gas PrOducts Performances (LOLIPOP)

A CCI project to assess the state-of-the-art satellite measurements of 'other long-lived greenhouse gases'

Visitar Proyecto
...

Ocean Colour

This project focuses on the Ocean Colour ECV encompassing water-leaving radiance in the visible domain, derived chlorophyll and inherent optical properties and utilises data archives from Copernicus, ESA, NASA and NOAA.

Visitar Proyecto
...

Ozone

The Ozone project focuses on the generation of multi-decadal time series of harmonised and consistent ozone data suitable to assess long-term changes in total ozone, as well as its vertical distribution.

Visitar Proyecto
...

Permafrost

This project is developing permafrost time series maps as Essential Climate Variable products primarily derived from satellite measurement

Visitar Proyecto
...

Phytoplankton biomass and diversity Climate Change Initiative (PHYTO-CCI)

Developing satellite-based data products for phytoplankton carbon biomass and pigment diversity

Visitar Proyecto
...

Precursors for aerosols and ozone

developing long term, satellite-derived climate data records for the Precursors for Aerosol and Ozone Essential Climate Variable

Visitar Proyecto
...

River Discharge

This project aims to produce and validate a consistent data set of the variables grouped under the River Discharge Essential Climate Variable

Visitar Proyecto
...

Sea Ice Age and Drift (SAGE)

Creating the first global data records of sea ice age and drift to support climate research

Visitar Proyecto
...

Sea Ice

The project aims to advance the retrieval capability for two main variables of the Sea Ice Essential Climate Variable (ECV): Sea ice concentration and sea ice thickness.

Visitar Proyecto
...

Sea Level

The Sea Level CCI project's main objective is to produce and validate a Sea Level Essential Climate Variable (ECV) product. This is achieved through four supporting aims.

Visitar Proyecto
...

Sea Level Budget Closure

This project aims to reduce current uncertainties of sea level change and its individual components, resulting in better closure of the sea level budget.

Visitar Proyecto
...

Sea State

The Sea State project is developing an 18-year data set (2002-2020) capitalising on the rich satellite altimeter, SAR imager, and other data holdings available during that period.

Visitar Proyecto
...

Sea Surface Salinity

Generating improved calibrated global Sea Surface Salinity fields from all available satellite L-band radiometer measurements.

Visitar Proyecto
...

Sea Surface Temperature

The project aims to make climate data records for SST longer, more stable and more accurate, providing data users with different forms of data and documentation.

Visitar Proyecto
...

Snow

The Snow project generates long-time series of daily global snow extent maps from optical satellite data and daily global snow water equivalent products from passive microwave satellite data.

Visitar Proyecto
...

Soil Moisture

The project generates long-term global soil moisture records that contribute to hundreds of hydrological and climatological studies worldwide, as well as the annual BAMS "State of the Climate" reports.

Visitar Proyecto
...

Vegetation Parameters

The Vegetation Parameters project of the ESA Climate Change Initiative

Visitar Proyecto
...

Water Vapour

The Water Vapour project is generating new global high-quality climate data records of both total column and vertically resolved water vapour

Visitar Proyecto