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The UK Earth Observation Climate Information Service (EOCIS) offers diverse datasets for climate and environmental monitoring. The global datasets generated by EOCIS include atmospheric, land surface, and ocean essential climate variables. Regional datasets focus on high-latitude observables, methane observations in the lower atmosphere, and soil water balance observations across Africa. These datasets are selected for their scientific significance and societal relevance, such as food security in a changing climate. Climate variables and indices for the UK are produced at high resolution (~100m), including near-real-time fire and urban flood monitoring, high-resolution surface temperature mapping, analysis of coastal water colour changes due to extreme rainfall, and environmental assessments of vegetation, lake changes, and aerosols for ecosystem and human health impact studies. The project exploits the observations available from environmental sensors orbiting in space to create climate data records and climate information. EOCIS is a collaboration led by the National Centre for Earth Observation, and involving over a dozen research organisations. The project addresses 12 categories of global and regional essential climate variables, covering a broad scope of applications outlined in this short video.
Aerosol
This dataset contains the level-3 daily and monthly mean aerosol properties products from Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-3B SLSTR satellite observations. Data are processed using the Swansea University algorithm. Aerosols are minor constituents of the atmosphere by mass, but critical components in terms of impact on climate. Aerosols influence the global radiation balance directly by scattering and absorbing radiation, and indirectly through influencing cloud reflectivity, cloud cover and cloud lifetime.
The data is split into the Sentinel-3 satellites and a daily and monthly data set. See EOCIS for more information including the user guide.
Land Surface Temperature
This dataset contains monthly-averaged land surface temperatures (LSTs) and their uncertainty estimates from multiple Infra-Red (IR) instruments on Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) sun-synchronous (a.k.a. polar orbiting) satellites. Satellite land surface temperatures are skin temperatures, which means, for example, the temperature of the ground surface in bare soil areas, the temperature of the canopy over forests, and a mix of the soil and leaf temperature over sparse vegetation.
The land surface temperature is split into the Sentinel-3 satellites and the time of day. See EOCIS for more information including the user guide.
Sea-Surface Temperatures
This dataset provides daily estimates of global sea surface temperature (SST) along with the uncertainties and sea ice concentrations, based on observations from multiple satellite sensors.
See EOCIS for more information including the user guide.
The data listed is what is currently available on the Hub. For possible future datasets, please visit the EOCIS website.