Team

The ESA CCI Land Evaporation project consortium brings together the following partners in close collaboration:

• Gent Universiteit, Hydro-Climate Extremes Lab (project lead)
• Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Ricerca per la Protezione Idrogeologica
• Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Earth Observation Unit
• Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Stichting Deltares
• Technische Universität Wien, Climate and Environmental Remote Sensing
• Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BCLIMATE

Consortium Expertise

The CCI Land Evaporation consortium brings together leading expertise in hydrology, remote sensing, and climate science. The partners have participated in numerous international projects funded by ESA, the EU, and other major institutions, with long-standing experience in developing operational global datasets related to evaporation and soil moisture. Their combined skills cover ecohydrology, hydrometeorology, satellite observations, data assimilation, uncertainty quantification, the water–energy–carbon cycles, land surface modelling, machine learning, land–atmosphere interactions, algorithm and system development, and product validation. This collective expertise ensures that the project delivers scientifically robust and operationally reliable datasets that support climate research, water management, and climate adaptation strategies.