Mastodawn

Since more than two weeks the RV Polarstern #SWOS expedition is now conducting research in the western Weddell Sea. The days are starting to get shorter while we are measuring L-band microwave brightness temperatures of sea ice to improve our satellite retrievals for the upcoming EU/ESA #CIMR mission.

Polar Remote Sensing, Bremen Oct 15

Two weeks ago, our colleague Marcus gave an overview of the CIMR L2 Snow depth retrieval implemented within the L2PAD project on the European Space Agency - #ESA #CIMR Expert User Group workshop in Barcelona. Now we are addressing the valuable comments and feedback to improve the product. Another month till the detailed design review, let's go!

Thomas Lavergne Jun 22, 2025

I will not be at #LPS25, Europe's largest 🛰️ Earth Observation conference, in Vienna this week.

But many of my good friends and colleagues will, including those from @osi_saf , #CCI (Climate Change Initiative), and #CIMR (the future satellite in my profile banner). Catch many of them at the #SeaIce session, but also #SoilMoisture and #SMOS15 sessions.

Enjoy the conference, while I enjoy some early vacation in Grenoble 😅.

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steph.space May 25, 2025

@lavergnetho My pleasure.
Heard about #CIMR for the first time yesterday from your profile and now I’m looking forward too 🤩.

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Thomas Lavergne May 24, 2025

@stephspace Ohh, I hadn't seen that video by ESA! Thanks for sharing. So much looking forward to the deployment video of the #CIMR mission in 2029/30.

Phil Browne May 3, 2025

Well it turns out we have 3 open positions that I should tell you about:
- #Assimilation of #GNSS-R to improve the land surface (in the same team as me)
- Assimilation of #CIMR in the coupled system looking at the ocean (we've already started preparing for the sea ice part; on the #ESA #DANTEX project I'm involved in)
- A climate reanalysis scientist looking after the quality of #ERA6

https://jobs.ecmwf.int/Home/Job

Get in touch!

#FediJobs #ScienceJobs #Hiring

(Bonus section head job available if you fancy it!)

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Polar Remote Sensing, Bremen Feb 27, 2025

This week we are in Copenhagen to discuss the implementation of level 2 algorithms for the upcoming #CIMR – Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer #satellite. Thank you to #DMI for hosting us and #EU and #ESA for developing #CIMR #CIMRL2PAD

Thomas Lavergne Nov 3, 2024

Packing for the next adventure / conference!

#IICWGDA12 #ESRIN Frascati #Italy.

#SeaIce #CIMR

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Thomas Lavergne Oct 31, 2024

not "what on Earth" but "what in Space!" 😅

We are developing the prototype ground processor for the #CIMR 🛰️ mission (>= 2029).

All 20+ Polar Oceans products (including #SeaIce variables) and Global Land products (Soil Moisture, Snow, etc...) for the CIMR mission need documenting. Plus the documents to describe file formats, the software architecture, the future validation campaign 😂 , etc...

This is our Year 1 review with ESA, so many of the docs are still draft.

-> https://github.com/CIMR-L2PAD/

CIMR-L2PAD

CIMR-L2PAD has one repository available. Follow their code on GitHub.

GitHub

Thomas Lavergne Oct 29, 2024

So next week there is a big #SeaIce #DataAssimilation workshop hosted by the European Space Agency in Frascati (Italy).

I'm one of the organizers, and I'll be there 🙋 with #CIMR 🛰️ and #CCI content. Who will I meet there?

#IICWGDA12