The UK Earth Observation Climate Information Service
Start date: November 2022
End date: March 2025
Overview
EOCIS brings together expertise from 15 organisations to produce datasets and data portals using high-resolution climate data. This includes ‘rapid-response information’ for climate-related events and longer-term data such as landscape greenhouse gas emissions.
CPOM’s role in EOCIS is to provide updates to their land ice and sea ice datasets using advanced satellite data from ESA’s CryoSat-2 mission.
The project is led by the National Centre for Earth Observation, in collaboration with the following centres:
- CPOM
- The University of Reading
- The University of Leeds
- Northumbria University
- The University of Leicester
- The University of Edinburgh
- University of Southampton
- Bangor University
- Plymouth Marine Laboratory
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- Swansea University
- Assimila
- UCL
- Space 4 Climate
- National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
EOCIS addresses 12 categories of regional and global climate variables including:
- Sea surface temperature
- Ocean reflectance
- Fire Occurrence and emissions
- Aerosol and particulate
- Cloud-aerosol radiation
- Methane
- Land surface temperature
- Water vapour and ozone
- Arctic: Ice Sheet mass and sea ice
- Eurasia: surface melting
- Africa: soil water balance
- Antarctic: Ice Sheet mass and ice velocity.
EOCIS is creating new, high resolution climate data for the UK, including rapid-response information for climate-linked events (fire early warning and urban flood mapping) and longer term climate data linked to human and ecosystem health and landscape greenhouse gas emissions.
You can read this recent blog about CPOM’s involvement in the EOCIS collaboration.