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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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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
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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! 🔭🧪🛰️

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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