CryoSat-2 (Oceánografie 🌊)

CryoSat-2 je sonda Evropské kosmické agentury určená k výzkumu životního prostředí. Odstartovala v roce 2010. Poskytuje vědcům údaje o polárních ledovcích a sleduje změnu tloušťky ledu s přesností až 1,3 centimetru. CryoSat-2 byl postaven jako náhrada za CryoSat-1, jehož nosná raketa Rokot havarovala. Ve srovnání se svým předchůdcem má...

https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryoSat-2

#Cryosat2 #SondyEsa #Klimatologie #Oceanografie #UmeleSatelityZeme #KosmonautikaVRoce2010

#ESA and #NASA satellites deliver first joint picture of #Greenland Ice Sheet melting

#GlobalWarming is causing the Ice Sheet to melt and flow more rapidly, raising sea levels and disturbing weather patterns across our planet. Precise measurements of its changing shape are of critical importance.
Scientists have now delivered the first measurements of Greenland Ice Sheet thickness change using #CryoSat2 and #ICESat2

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-esa-nasa-satellites-joint-picture.html

#ClimateScience
#Cryosphere
#RemoteSensing

Here are the end of January updates for the "measured" #CryoSat2/#SMOS #Arctic #SeaIce volume metric and the associated thickness map:

https://GreatWhiteCon.info/2024/02/facts-02/facts-about-the-arctic-in-february-2024/

Pan Arctic volume is still near the bottom of the range, and the ice in the Beaufort Sea is still thin.

Here's an end of 2023 comparison between the "modelled" #PIOMAS #Arctic #SeaIce volume metric, and the "measured" #CryoSat2/#SMOS equivalent:

https://GreatWhitecon.info/2024/01/facts-about-the-arctic-in-january-2024/

Plus the associated thickness maps: