How is Copernicus helping the EU with its sustainable finance policy in the context of the EU Green Deal and the wider climate crisis?

After an unusually warm start of the winter season characterised by the lack of significant snowfall, in the past few days a massive snowstorm covered the peaks of central and southern Italy with snow. Several municipalities in inland Italian have been heavily affected, and local schools have been closed for a few days in order to prevent...

On 23 January, a massive iceberg, of 1,550 km2 (close to the size of the island of Gran Canaria or of Greater London), has calved from the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica. This image was acquired on 20 and 24 January by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites and shows the newly formed iceberg, named Chasm1, floating in the Weddell Sea....

Copernicus is pleased to announce the first release of the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem portal. This portal will be a gateway to Sentinel as well as other data together with data processing functionalities.

A recent study published by the Nature journal has revealed that temperatures in Greenland have been higher in recent decades than in any other period in the past 1,000 years. The study analysed data from ice cores and reconstructed temperatures in Greenland going back to 1,000 AD. Results indicate that current temperatures are on average 1.5°C...

This multinational action has published it's final report on greenhouse gas emissions, land use, land use change and forestry.

Training materials, presented at a workshop organised by DLR, dealing with the development of downstream service/apllication for national statistics and reporting.

Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, has been designated as the European Green Capital 2023 in recognition of its efforts to promote sustainable transport, green economy and environmental conservation. Among the sustainable policies adapted by the city are the remodeling of streets to improve urban greening, the investment in free, electric and...

Training materials, presented at a workshop organised by DLR, dealing with the development of downstream service/apllication for national statistics and reporting.

Until December 2022, California's reservoirs remained below capacity. However, although there were storms in December, the above-average temperatures resulted in heavy rainfall rather than the usual snowfall, which contributed to improve the hydrological situation. In January 2023, steady snowfall in the Sierra Nevada region led to...

On 16 January, one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites captured this image, which shows a rare tropical cyclone that had formed in mid-January in the northern Atlantic Ocean. This is an unusual occurrence for this time of year, as the Atlantic hurricane season typically spans from June to November. The storm developed off the northeast...

Iceberg B-22a was formed in 2001, when it calved from the ice shelf formed by the Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica and started floating in the Amundsen Sea. In 2022 and 2023, it started moving towards the northwest and drifted by about 112 kilometres, 21 of which were covered between December 2022 and January 2023. This image was acquired by...

How is the ever-growing use of Copernicus data and products supporting local and regional authorities in their decision-making processes?

Latvia is at risk of being affected by the worst flooding episode since 1981 due to an ice jam in the Daugava River. The ice jam is affecting the normal flow of the river, causing the water level to rise and threatening to flood large areas in central Latvia. The Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) has been activated (EMSR644) to map...

Issyk-Kul is a lake in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan, is characterised by a rather unique feature: because of the high concentration of salt in its waters, it remains ice-free during the winter (Issyk-Kul means "warm lake" in Kyrgyz). On 14 January, an extreme cold spell affected Kyrgyzstan, freezing part of the lake and forming multiple ice...

Information on how to view and obtain SLSTR sensor data (Sentinel-3) for the sea area and how to prepare it for further work in GIS using SNAP.

Information on how to view and obtain OLCI sensor data (Sentinel-3) for the sea and how to prepare it for further GIS work with SNAP

Fiji, an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, is facing a grave threat from climate change. Rising sea levels are affecting several coastal villages, with predictions that more than 600 communities could be forced to relocate in the coming years. This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, acquired on the 19 of December 2022, shows the southern part of...

Course on marine optics , the study of how light interacts with water and the material present in it.

The course on marine metrology focuses on the basic oceanographic measurements as well as their derived quantities