• An Evaluation of the EnKF vs. EnOI and the Assimilation of SMAP, SMOS and ESA CCI Soil Moisture Data over the Contiguous US 

      Blyverket, Jostein; Hamer, Paul David; Bertino, Laurent; Albergel, Clement; Fairbairn, David; Lahoz, William A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      A number of studies have shown that assimilation of satellite derived soil moisture using the ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) can improve soil moisture estimates, particularly for the surface zone. However, the EnKF is ...
    • Development, production and evaluation of aerosol climate data records from European satellite observations (Aerosol_cci) 

      Popp, Thomas; de Leeuw, Gerrit; Bingen, Christine; Brühl, Christoph; Capelle, Virginie; Chedin, Alain; Clarisse, Lieven; Dubovik, Oleg; Grainger, Roy G.; Griesfeller, Jan; Heckel, Andreas; Kinne, Stefan; Klüser, Lars; Kosmale, Miriam; Kolmonen, Pekka; Lelli, Luca; Litvinov, Pavel; Mei, Linlu; North, Peter; Pinnock, Simon; Povey, Adam; Robert, Charles; Schulz, Michael; Sogacheva, Larisa; Stebel, Kerstin; Zweers, Deborah Stein; Thomas, Gareth; Tilstra, Lieuwe Gijsbert; Vandenbussche, Sophie; Veefkind, Pepijn; Vountas, Marco; Xue, Yong (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
    • Evaluation and Global-Scale Observation of Nitrous Oxide from IASI on Metop-A 

      Chalinel, Rémi; Attié, Jean-Luc; Ricaud, Philippe; Vidot, Jérôme; Kangah, Yannick; Hauglustaine, Didier; Thompson, Rona Louise (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a greenhouse gas difficult to estimate by satellite because of its weak spectral signature in the infra-red band and its low variability in the troposphere. Nevertheless, this study presents the ...
    • MERIS phytoplankton time series products from the SW Iberian Peninsula (Sagres) using seasonal-trend decomposition based on loess. 

      Cristina, Sónia; Cordeiro, Clara; Lavender, Samantha; Goela, Priscila Costa; Icely, John; Newton, Alice (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
    • Modification of local urban aerosol properties by long-range transport of biomass burning aerosol 

      Stachlewska, Iwona S.; Samson, Mateusz; Zawadzka, Olga; Harenda, Kamila M.; Janicka, Lucja; Poczta, Patryk; Szczepanik, Dominika; Heese, Birgit; Wang, Dongxiang; Borek, Karolina; Tetoni, Eleni; Proestakis, Emmanouil; Siomos, Nikolaos; Nemuc, Anca; Chojnicki, Bogdan H.; Markowicz, Krzysztof M.; Pietruczuk, Aleksander; Szkop, Artur; Althausen, Dietrich; Stebel, Kerstin; Schuettemeyer, Dirk; Zehner, Claus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      During August 2016, a quasi-stationary high-pressure system spreading over Central and North-Eastern Europe, caused weather conditions that allowed for 24/7 observations of aerosol optical properties by using a complex ...
    • Monitoring Soil Moisture Drought over Northern High Latitudes from Space 

      Blyverket, Jostein; Hamer, Paul David; Schneider, Philipp; Albergel, Clement; Lahoz, William A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Mapping drought from space using, e.g., surface soil moisture (SSM), has become viable in the last decade. However, state of the art SSM retrieval products suffer from very poor coverage over northern latitudes. In this ...
    • SAMIRA-SAtellite Based Monitoring Initiative for Regional Air Quality 

      Stebel, Kerstin; Stachlewska, Iwona S.; Nemuc, Anca; Horálek, Jan; Schneider, Philipp (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The satellite based monitoring initiative for regional air quality (SAMIRA) initiative was set up to demonstrate the exploitation of existing satellite data for monitoring regional and urban scale air quality. The project ...
    • SEVIRI Aerosol Optical Depth Validation Using AERONET and Intercomparison with MODIS in Central and Eastern Europe 

      Ajtai, Nicolae; Mereuta, Alexandru; Stefanie, Horatiu; Radovici, Andrei; Botezan, Camelia; Zawadzka-Manko, Olga; Stachlewska, Iwona S.; Stebel, Kerstin; Zehner, Claus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This paper presents the validation results of Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) retrieved from the Spinning Enhanced Visible Infrared Radiometer (SEVIRI) data using the near-real-time algorithm further developed in the frame of ...
    • SIOS’s Earth Observation (EO), Remote Sensing (RS), and operational activities in response to COVID-19 

      Jawak, Shridhar D.; Andersen, Bo N.; Pohjola, Veijo; Godøy, Øystein; Hübner, Christiane E.; Jennings, Inger; Ignatiuk, Dariusz; Holmen, Kim; Sivertsen, Agnar; Hann, Richard; Tømmervik, Hans; Kääb, Andreas; Błaszczyk, Małgorzata; Salzano, Roberto; Luks, Bartłomiej; Høgda, Kjell Arild; Storvold, Rune; Nilsen, Lennart; Salvatori, Rosamaria; Krishnan, Kottekkatu Padinchati; Chatterjee, Sourav; Lorentzen, Dag Arne; Erlandsson, Rasmus; Lauknes, Tom Rune; Malnes, Eirik; Karlsen, Stein Rune; Enomoto, Hiroyuki; Fjæraa, Ann Mari; Zhang, Jie; Marty, Sabine; Nygård, Knut Ove; Lihavainen, Heikki (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS) is an international partnership of research institutions studying the environment and climate in and around Svalbard. SIOS is developing an efficient observing system, ...
    • Spatiotemporal Patterns in Data Availability of the Sentinel-5P NO2 Product over Urban Areas in Norway 

      Schneider, Philipp; Hamer, Paul David; Kylling, Arve; Shetty, Shobitha; Stebel, Kerstin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Due to its comparatively high spatial resolution and its daily repeat frequency, the tropospheric nitrogen dioxide product provided by the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) onboard the Sentinel-5 Precursor ...
    • Status of Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Applications in Svalbard 

      Jawak, Shridhar D.; Pohjola, Veijo; Kääb, Andreas Max; Andersen, Bo Nyborg; Błaszczyk, Małgorzata; Salzano, Roberto; Luks, Bartlomiej; Enomoto, Hiroyuki; Høgda, Kjell Arild; Moholdt, Geir; Dinessen, Frode; Fjæraa, Ann Mari (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)