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"text": "## The Third Dimension\r\n\r\nTo measure the volume of sea ice, its thickness is also required. Radar altimeters are used to measure very precisely the height of the ice above the sea surface, from which its thickness can be derived. The CCI Sea Ice team has developed monthly sea ice thickness maps using radar altimeter data from ESA’s Envisat mission from 2002 to 2012, and from CryoSat, launched in 2010. The CCI Ice Sheet team also uses these satellite altimeters to measure the thickness of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets.\r\n \r\nThe retrieval of sea ice thickness from altimetry works well only in the winter months, and only for relatively thick ice. The team is also looking at the novel use of data from ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite (SMOS) to measure the thickness of thin ice, and at the new capabilities offered by future ESA satellites such as CRISTAL and CIMR. \r\n\r\nThe observed Arctic sea ice loss has been found to directly follow humanity’s cumulative carbon dioxide emissions: 3 m2 of ice are lost in September for every tonne of carbon dioxide we add to the atmosphere. That’s about the emission per passenger on a single trans-Atlantic flight. Climate models using the CCI data as an input show that, at current emission rates, it is likely that the Arctic Ocean will be largely ice-free in the summer before 2050.",
"shortText": "## The Third Dimension\r\n\r\nTo measure the volume of sea ice, its thickness is also required:\r\n\r\n- radar altimeters measure the ice’s height above the sea surface, from which its thickness can be calculated. \r\n- monthly sea ice thickness maps from ESA’s Envisat (2002 to 2012), and CryoSat (launched in 2010). \r\n- CCI Ice Sheet team also uses these satellite altimeters to measure the thickness of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets.\r\n- data from ESA’s SMOS satellite also investigated to measure the thickness of thin ice.\r\n- new capabilities offered by future ESA satellites such as CRISTAL and CIMR. \r\n\r\nObserved Arctic sea ice loss has been found to directly follow humanity’s cumulative carbon dioxide emissions: \r\n- 3 sq metres of ice are lost in September for every tonne of carbon dioxide we add to the atmosphere. \r\n- about the emission of one passenger on a trans-Atlantic flight. \r\n\r\nClimate models using the CCI data as an input show that, at current emission rates, it is likely that the Arctic Ocean will be largely ice-free in the summer before 2050.",
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"text": "## Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions\r\n\r\nThe oceans and the atmosphere transport about the same amount of heat towards the poles, but the atmospheric circulation is itself partly driven by the energy exchanged during the evaporation of ocean water and its precipitation as rain. This makes the sea an important regulator of the climate and the temperature of its surface a key measurement for climate scientists.\r\n\r\nHigher sea surface temperatures allow more evaporation, giving more atmospheric water vapour, with the potential for more clouds and more rain. In the western Mediterranean, warmer sea water is a key factor in the sudden rainstorms and flash floods that afflict the coasts of France, Italy and Spain in late summer.\r\n\r\nOn a larger scale, high water temperatures in tropical oceans power extreme weather events such as hurricanes. The energy exchange between ocean and atmosphere during these events is revealed by a dip in the sea surface temperature in the wake of large hurricanes. \r\n\r\n## Climate Indicators\r\nWhile the atmosphere can quickly move energy around the planet in weather systems, the ocean’s much greater capacity to store heat makes it a more stable indicator of longer-term climate trends. The rise in global average air temperature slowed down in the first decade of this century, causing some to question global warming, but the slowdown has proved temporary, with air temperature rising quickly again since 2012. The temperature of the oceans continued to rise throughout.",
"shortText": "## Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions \r\n\r\nOceans and atmosphere transport about the same amount of heat towards the poles. \r\n\r\nEnergy is also exchanged during the evaporation and condensation of water. \r\n\r\nThe sea is an important regulator of the climate and its temperature is a key measurement. \r\n\r\nHigher sea surface temperatures allow:\r\n\r\n- more evaporation\r\n- giving more atmospheric water vapour\r\n- with the potential for more clouds and more rain\r\n\r\nHigh water temperatures in tropical oceans power extreme weather events such as hurricanes. \r\n\r\nThe atmosphere can quickly move energy around the planet, but the ocean is a more stable indicator of longer-term climate trends.",
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"text": "## Climate Cycles\r\n\r\nThere are periodic variations in the energy exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere that change weather patterns around the world every few years. El Niño and La Niña are the warm and cool phases of a recurring climate cycle across the tropical Pacific – the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO. \r\n\r\n## El Niño\r\nDuring El Niño, the east-to-west trade winds across the Equatorial Pacific weaken, causing a build-up of warm water in the eastern Pacific, which supresses the upwelling of cold water. As the warm water builds up so does cloud cover, due to the increased evaporation of sea water. \r\n\r\n## La Niña\r\nWhen El Niño ends, the cold water sometimes returns stronger than ever, clearing a gap in the clouds as the local climate enters its cool phase – La Niña. These changes to ocean temperature and evaporation over the Pacific lead to changes in rainfall trends across the world. Certain areas can experience wetter or drier conditions than normal, which can lead to more flash floods, drought or wild fires.\r\n\r\nThere are periodic ocean-atmosphere disturbances elsewhere in the world, such as the Indian Ocean Dipole and the North Atlantic Oscillation.",
"shortText": "## Climate Cycles\r\n\r\nThere are periodic variations in the energy exchange between ocean and atmosphere, eg:\r\n\r\n- Indian Ocean Dipole\r\n- North Atlantic Oscillation\r\n- El Niño-Southern Oscillation\r\n\r\nEl Niño: weakening of Pacific trade winds, causing build up of warm surface water.\r\n\r\nLa Niña: strong cold tongue across Equatorial Pacific.\r\n\r\nChanges to ocean temperature and evaporation in the Pacific lead to changes in rainfall across the world. \r\n\r\nSome areas become wetter or drier than normal, leading to more floods, drought or wild fires.",
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"text": "## CCI Sea Surface Temperature\r\n\r\nIt is likely that the upper ocean has been warming since the middle of the nineteenth century, and scientists have been able to measure the warming of the ocean surface from space since the 1970s. Satellite observations provide more detailed and even coverage, and more frequent repeats, than is possible from ships and floating instruments.\r\n\r\nThe CCI SST team has harmonised four trillion measurements from fourteen satellites spanning four decades. Combining the highly accurate, stable and well-calibrated measurements from new European sensors with the longer coverage of an older American system gives a complete, daily, stable, low-bias SST data set spanning 37 years. \r\n\r\n![Wavelength diagram for SST measurement](assets/sst_large_10.png) \r\n_Sea surface temperature is measured using two wavelengths in the thermal infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum. (Planetary Visions)_\r\n\r\nThe use of ESA’s ATSR and SLSTR sensors makes this dataset not only more accurate and stable than previous SST products, but also largely independent of in situ measurements from ships and buoys. If similar climate signals are detected from space and on the Earth, we can be confident they truly reflect what is happening in nature. \r\n\r\n![An Argo float being deployed from a research ship](assets/sealevel_large_07.jpg) \r\n_An automatic free-floating instrumented buoy being deployed from a research ship. Almost 4,000 such floats have been deployed across the world’s oceans. They cycle up and down the top 2,000 metres of the ocean continually measuring temperature, salinity and currents, providing context for satellite observations of the ocean surface. (Argo Programme/IFREMER)_",
"shortText": "## CCI Sea Surface Temperature\r\n\r\nThe upper ocean has been warming since the middle of the nineteenth century.\r\n\r\nSurface warming measured from space since the 1970s.\r\n\r\nSatellites provide more detailed and even coverage, and more frequent repeats, than is possible from ships and floating instruments.\r\n\r\nCCI SST team has combined:\r\n\r\n- data from 14 satellites over 4 decades\r\n- the latest, highly accurate sensor technology \r\n- greater coverage from longer-running weather satellites\r\n- to give four trillion SST measurements\r\n\r\nThis dataset is largely independent of in situ observations.\r\n\r\n![Wavelength diagram for SST measurement](assets/sst_large_10.png) \r\n_Sea surface temperature is measured using two wavelengths in the thermal infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum. (Planetary Visions)_",
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"text": "## From Ocean Colour to Carbon Flux\r\n\r\nOne example of how satellite data have been used to improve climate models is provided by the CCI Ocean Colour team’s measurements of chlorophyll concentration. Variations in the colour of the ocean allow us to map the distribution of phytoplankton around the world. These tiny marine organisms contain chlorophyll, just like plants on land, and are linked to key climate processes including the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and the release of atmospheric aerosols that influence cloud cover.\r\n\r\nWhen the UK Met Office incorporated satellite-observed chlorophyll concentration in their ocean-biogeochemical model, it led to marked improvements in the how the model represented seasonal variations of phytoplankton and its distribution in the deeper parts of the ocean. The team also used the data to better model the exchange of carbon dioxide between the atmosphere and ocean. Comparing the outputs with a set of independent observations of sea surface carbon dioxide not only showed the model provided a better representation of the carbon cycle in some areas but also highlighted where the model needs to be improved.\r\n \r\nIt is important to get this right because it helps us understand how the way the ocean absorbs and releases carbon might change as a result of different amounts and patterns of warming. At the moment, the ocean is an important sink for carbon emissions from human activities, so knowing how it may respond in the future is critical.",
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"text": "## Responding to Change\r\n\r\nWhen a habitat changes, animals and plants may find that their adaptations are not helpful – or even actively disadvantage them – in the new environment and be forced to move elsewhere in order to survive. Pigeons, foxes and, of course, humans are among the species that have adapted to survive in cities. But individual populations of other species that were more specialised, or have been driven into areas where they face greater competition, have become extinct as a result of increased urbanisation or the extension of agriculture into previously wild areas.\r\n\r\nConversely, changing climate is increasing the range of some species, allowing them to thrive in places that were previously inhospitable to them, or changing their habitats in ways that allow the population to boom. This is not always good news for everyone. For example, several years of drought and mild winters in the 2000s allowed the mountain pine beetle to extend its range from Western North America east across the Rocky Mountains, resulting in extensive damage to commercial and natural forests that had previously been free from this pest.\r\n\r\n## Protected Areas\r\n\r\nAn ecosystem with a high level of biodiversity is likely to be more resilient and be able to survive sudden changes. But if all the animals in a food web are ultimately dependent on a single type of plant, then the entire ecosystem may collapse if that plant is affected by disease or extreme weather.\r\n\r\nNational parks and other conservation areas protect a range of habitats from further development or exploitation while, in some of the best cases, continuing to support local people. Where habitats are becoming fragmented, through, for example, deforestation or damming rivers, wildlife corridors can provide a safe route between areas for wider ranging or slower moving species, such as plants.",
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"text": "## Charting Habitat Change\r\n\r\nEssential climate variables (ECVs) describe key aspects of the Earth’s climate and features that have a strong influence on it. Understanding climate gives us an insight into one of the drivers of ecosystem change and so how we might preserve vulnerable biomes and biodiversity. Land cover and biomass are directly related to the population of a habitat, and are both ECVs that can be monitored from space using satellites. \r\n\r\nOther ECVs also determine whether a certain habitat can thrive. On land, these include land surface temperature and soil moisture. Sea surface temperature and ocean colour are useful measures for monitoring the oceans. ESA’s Climate Change Initiative has used satellite observations to produce records of ECVs that cover the whole world and stretch back more than thirty years. Having a reliable record of these factors, and an accurate understanding of how they are currently changing, helps us make responsible decisions, taking account of the impact they will have on the planet – and all its inhabitants – in the future.",
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