News from Copernicus Services
Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS): Towards High Resolution Layers for the 2018 reference year
Following the recent announcement of the release of the 2015 version of the "Imperviousness", "Forests", "Grassland" and "Water & Wetness" High Resolution Layers (HRL), the European Environment Agency (EEA) has launched a call for tenders for the productions of these HRLs for the reference year 2018.
The deadline for submitting tenders is 24/09 (14:00 local time). See contract notice.
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Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS): Increased water quality monitoring accuracy
In 2019, the Ocean Colour data (a proxy for chlorophyll-a and phytoplankton biomass, two important parameters for the monitoring of water quality) released by the OLCI instrument onboard the twin satellites Sentinel-3A and -3B will be assimilated into the update of the CMEMS real-time global biogeochemistry forecast model, thus enabling a better accuracy of chlorophyll-A forecasts.
More information is available here. |
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Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS): A global system upgrade introduces new satellite observations
The global forecasting system implemented in CAMS has been recently upgraded, thus introducing many improvements. For instance, the system now exploits new observations of NO2 from the GOME-2 instrument onboard MetOp-A and -B, and introduces (in a monitoring mode for the time being) ozone observations from the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite. Several improvements to the aerosol model have also been implemented resulting in improved sea salt aerosol as well as an improved representation of secondary organic aerosols.
More information is available here. |
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Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S): The Climate Data Store is now available
C3S has recently released the freely available Climate Data Store (CDS). The CDS provides information about the past, present and future climate, on global, continental, and regional scales. It contains a variety of data types, including satellite observations, in-situ measurements, climate model projections and seasonal forecasts.
To know more, read the Copernicus Observer article dedicated to the CDS. |
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Emergency Management Service (EMS): From combatting forest fires to monitoring icebergs
During these last weeks, the EMS has been activated at many occasions to support operations against forest fires in Sweden, England and Germany, or against floods in Greece and Romania. The service has also been activated to monitor a displacement of people in Afghanistan as well as to monitor a 11-million ton iceberg which threatens populated areas on the western coast of Greenland.
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