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CryoClim: A new system and service for climate monitoring of the cryosphere
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2014
The CryoClim project has developed a new operational and permanent service for long-term systematic climate monitoring of the cryosphere. The product production and the product repositories are hosted by mandated organisations, and the service is delivered through a state-of-the-art web service and web portal. The service provides sea ice and snow products of global coverage and glacier products covering Norway (mainland and Svalbard). The sea ice sub-service is based on data from passive microwave radiometers (SMMR and SSM/I). The same period is covered by snow cover extent products based on passive microwave radiometers (SMMR and SSM/I) and optical (AVHRR from 1982). Glacier maps, including glacier area outline and glacier lakes have been generated from Landsat TM, ETM+ and historic topographic maps for all glaciers in mainland Norway starting the time series from 1952. For Svalbard, glacier products are based on optical data (SPOT and MODIS) for glacier area outline and glacier snow line, and SAR data (ERS-1, ERS-2, Envisat ASAR and Radarsat) for glacier surface type. The period covered with satellite data starts in the early 1990s. The glacier area outline time series has in Svalbard also been extended with map data and aerial images from earlier days. Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.
EARTH OBSERVATION AND CRYOSPHERE SCIENCE: THE WAY FORWARD
This paper summarises the main results and conclusions of the Earth Observation for Cryosphere Science Conference organised jointly by the European Space Agency (ESA), the Climate and Cryosphere project (CliC) of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and the European Geosciences Union (EGU). The meeting, hosted at the ESRIN facilities of ESA, in November 2012, involved more than 200 scientists over 30 countries and addressed the latest advances and scientific developments in the use of Earth observation technology to observe, monitor and predict the different components and processes governing the cryosphere and reviewed the related applications. This paper summarises the main results of the discussions and provides guidance for future research and the development of activities in this fascinating scientific area
Mountain cryospheric studies and the WCRP climate and cryosphere (CliC) project
Journal of Hydrology, 2003
A new element of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) has been inaugurated addressing the role of the cryosphere in climate. A Science and Co-ordination Plan has been issued for the Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) project. Topics of concern for high mountain hydrology are; ice caps and glaciers, seasonal snow cover, freshwater ice, and seasonally frozen ground and permafrost. The principal scientific questions relating to the cryosphere in mountain regions are reviewed. CliC wil also examine the role of cryospheric components as indicators of climate variability and change building on ongoing programs of glacier and permaforst monitoring.
First results from the Cryoclim system for cryospheric climate monitoring
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