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Peter Bickerton
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Poet, scientist, writer & creator of fun science outreach 🦠
"Maverick instigator of mad ideas" 💡
"Digital troubadour" 🪕
Plant lover 🌱
Pretty good cook 👨‍🍳
Editor, ESA & EJR-Quartz 🛰️
"Our poet" for Earth Explorers Aeolus 🌬️ CryoSat 🧊 EarthCARE ☁️ Swarm 🧲
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robinjhogan.bsky.social
Would you believe it: just 10 days after #EarthCARE went through the eye of Hurricane Humberto, it did the same with Hurricane Priscilla in the East Pacific on 7 October! A very different beast this one: a huge eye around 100 km across, and very lopsided, with much more rain on the southern side.
October 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Reposted by Peter Bickerton
robinjhogan.bsky.social
So this is pretty amazing - yesterday EarthCARE sampled Hurricane Humberto straight across the eye! The eye of a tropical cyclone is small so a direct hit is rare: this is the first time EarthCARE has hit one after over a year in orbit! (Showing here also VIIRS on NOAA-20 for context.)
September 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
jugglingdoctor.bsky.social
What if satellite cloud data could become music?

Meet Hakuryu — a dragon born as the European Space Agency's EarthCARE satellite, singing a song of peace for our planet 🐉☁️🎶

This is an incredible sonification project!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vsr...
A dragon made of clouds is singing to Earth
YouTube video by European Space Agency, ESA
www.youtube.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Reposted by Peter Bickerton
technology.esa.int
Congratulations to EarthCARE on its first year in space! 🎉 This @esa.int & JAXA Earth observation mission uses 4 instruments to study how clouds and aerosols affect Earth’s heating and cooling ☁️ 🌏 earth.esa.int/eogateway/su... @esaearth.esa.int
June 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Reposted by Peter Bickerton
robinjhogan.bsky.social
#EarthCARE has now been in orbit for a whole year! 🛰 As well as making amazing new measurements of clouds🌧 aerosols and radiation🌞, we've had some surprises: EarthCARE can measure insects🪰 and even phytoplankton in the ocean🌊 Happy birthday EarthCARE! 🎂 earth.esa.int/eogateway/su...
5 things we learned in EarthCARE’s impressive first year - Earth Online
Clouds and aerosols, and their contribution to Earth's energy balance, are already less mysterious after the Earth Cloud, Aerosol and Radiation Explorer's first year in orbit.
earth.esa.int
May 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Reposted by Peter Bickerton
cpom-uk.bsky.social
Great to see this research on Arctic sea-ice volume from CPOM Associate Investigators, Harry Heorton &
@micheltsamados.bsky.social (both @ucl.ac.uk), Jack Landy
and Paul R Holland, featured in this article by @esa.int 👇

earth.esa.int/eogateway/su...
CryoSat at 15: ESA’s ice mission delivers big picture of Arctic sea ice - Earth Online
Arctic sea ice plays a critical role in regulating Earth’s climate and it has changed drastically in recent decades. The European Space Agency’s CryoSat mission has now been observing it for 15 years,...
earth.esa.int
April 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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esa.int
#OTD 8 April 2010, launch of #Cryosat2, Europe's first mission dedicated to studying Earth’s ice ❄️ and water 💦

Still operational 15 years later! 👏

Happy launch anniversary #CryoSat2! 🎉

🔗 earth.esa.int/eogateway/su... @esaearth.esa.int
ESA's CryoSat mission provides data to determine the precise rate of change in the thickness of the polar ice sheets and floating sea ice. It is capable of detecting changes as little as 1 cm per year. The information from CryoSat is leading to a better understanding of how the volume of ice on Earth is changing and, in turn, a better appreciation of how ice and climate are linked.
April 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
jugglingdoctor.bsky.social
ESA's magnificent ice mission celebrates 15 years in space today! 💫 🌌 🚀 🛰️🧊🧪 🥳

New research highlights why CryoSat is so treasured, using its phenomenal record since 2010 to show how growth, melt & drift contribute to interannual changes in Arctic sea ice 👌

earth.esa.int/eogateway/su...
CryoSat at 15: ESA’s ice mission delivers big picture of Arctic sea ice - Earth Online
Arctic sea ice plays a critical role in regulating Earth’s climate and it has changed drastically in recent decades. The European Space Agency’s CryoSat mission has now been observing it for 15 years,...
earth.esa.int
April 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
jugglingdoctor.bsky.social
We've just published another great image from ESA's EarthCARE satellite, which captured a major storm system over Spain on 11 March.

Between the 1 and 24 March 2025 Madrid recorded its highest rainfall since records began in 1893.

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This image shows how EarthCARE’s Level-1 B-SNG broadband radiometer (BBR) product captures the signal of a major convective system - a large cluster of thunderstorms that can bring severe weather such as strong winds, heavy rainfall and flooding - in the south of Spain on 11 March 2025. The Level-1 B-SNG product provides broadband measurements spectrally integrated from ultra-violet to the far infrared, in both solar and thermal channels, with an unprecedented spatial resolution of 600 m across-track by 1100 m along-track. The image shows the nadir BBR observation, in colour, over the larger multispectral imager (MSI) swath, in greyscale. Similar observations are captured from a forward and backward direction. Combining these three views allows us to estimate the reflected solar flux and the emitted thermal flux with an level of accuracy of better than 10 W/m², as required for the radiometric scientific goal of the EarthCARE mission. The BBR and MSI are two of four instruments on board ESA’s Earth Cloud, Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) satellite. Both Level-1 and some Level-2 products are now open to the public and are available for scientific use. Title: PSevere rainfall over Spain and Portugal, March 2025 Description: The map shows the total precipitation anomaly in Europe between 1-25 March 2025. The deep blues show much more rainfall fell over Spain and Portugal in particular compared to the average for the time of year, based on a reference period of 1991-2020. The data has been provided via the Copernicus Climate Change Service and ECMWF Reanalysis v5 (ERA5). Credit: Julien Nicolas, C3S/Copernicus Climate Change Service.
April 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
jugglingdoctor.bsky.social
Oh my there's a haiku here somewhere.

We blame oil and gas
but gobble up tat en masse.
Climate change, alas
January 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
jugglingdoctor.bsky.social
I personally don't see an end to GHG emissions when we blame oil and gas, but ever-increasingly consume tat en masse.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Shein: Inside the Chinese factories fuelling the company's success
Workers making clothes for the fast fashion giant tell the BBC they labour for up to 75 hours a week.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
jugglingdoctor.bsky.social
Many books and documentaries detail the terror of getting stuck in the Northwest passage, where many ships met a frostbitten demise in search of a way through.

@amyswiggs.bsky.social did this cracking piece of research using CryoSat to help map its icy narrows! 🔭🧪🛰️

earth.esa.int/eogateway/su...
Two ships navigate icy arctic waters, with floating sea ice - cracked like an egg shell - stretching as far as the eye can see. The ship in the foreground is one of the Canadian Coast Guard, and is bright red. https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgeologicalsurvey/4371016246
January 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM