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CCI Sea Level
The main objective of the sea level CCI project is to produce and validate a Sea Level Essential Climate Variable (ECV) product. It represents the first phase of the ESA Climate Change Initiative program that aims at setting up in a second phase an "operational processing capacity of Earth Observation data"
ESA Climate Change Initiative
Climate change is arguably the greatest challenge facing mankind in the twenty-first century. Its importance has been recognised in recent reports from the IPCC and from UNFCCC, and the overwhelming economic consequences are set out in the Stern Report. Read more »
Project publication list available
Over the last 3 years, the Sea Level CCI team have collectively published in excess of 80 publications, in the form of peer reviewed articles, conference proceedings & communications and as technical reports.
You can now see a full list of these publications in our new publications area.
Sea Level CCI - Phase 1 completed, Phase 2 begins
It's an incredibly exciting time for the Sea Level CCI project team. The first 3 years (2011 - 2013) of the project activities are now complete and a new chapter is underway taking the team into the next 3 year phase.
The SLCCI project team during the end of Phase 1 / Kick Off to Phase 2 Meeting
held at ESRIN, Frascati, Italy (Feb 2014)
New Version (v1.1) of the Sea Level ECV available
We are pleased to announce that the next Version (1.1) of the Sea Level ECV products over an 18 year time period, from Jan 1993 to October 2010, is now available.
For More Information Read more »
The fourth Sea Level CCI newsletter is now available
The fourth newsletter summarises the major activities and achievements of the project as we move towards the end of this current phase of activities (Phase 1).
In this issue:
- 3rd Year Ending
- Sea Level CCI phase I in a Nutshell
- Sea level trends over 18years
- Upcoming events
- Publications
The Newsletter (PDF) can be found here: Newsletter #4
AGU 2013 session: GLOBAL CHANGE Sea Level/Cryospheric change
2013-12-09 00:00
2013-12-13 23:59
Europe/Rome
The AGU’s 46th annual Fall Meetingwill be held in San Francisco, California, 9-13 December. The AGU meeting abstract submission site is currently open, please submit an abstract by the August 6th deadline. Read more »
New Sea Level ECV video available
Version 1 of the Sea Level ECV products over an 18 year time period, from Jan 1993 to October 2010 is a multi-satellite merged product that consists of:
- Time series of gridded Sea Level Anomalies (SLA): the SLA grids are calculated after merging all the altimetry mission measurements together into monthly grids with a spatial resolution of 1/4 of degree.
