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ArcticGEOSS in Geo WEEK 2023

This week, there is the GEO Week 2023 & Ministerial Summit event in Cape Town, South Africa, from 6th November to 10th November.

On Monday, there was a wonderful Opening Ceremony with music by South Africa Youth Choir. There has been interesting flash talks, workshops and showcases related to for example climate, biodiversity and air quality. Today, the GEO Planery sessions have just started, continuing tomorrow and on Friday there will be the Ministerial Summit.

ArcticGEOSS has a booth in GEO Week where several Arctic PASSION services are presented related to permafrost, wildfires, sea ice, air pollution and lake ice. In addition, defining Share Arctic Variables (SAVs) in Arctic PASSION project is told about. Also some Finnish actions such as HarvesterDestinE, TARKKA, Crowdsourcing and Biodiversity monitoring with EO is presented.

At the booth, people from the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) and SIOS are welcoming you to come and hear more.

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ArcticGEOSS in South Africa

ArcticGEOSS will be visible this week in South Africa, where there will be an Exhibition booth in GEO Week event with several interesting posters presented by Arctic PASSION project. There will be presentation of services, contributing projects and Shared Arctic Variables progress. The posters will be presented at the Exhibition booth during lunch and coffee breaks according to the attached agenda.

If you are attending GEO Week come to our stand to hear about

Arctic PASSION pilots:

  • PS2: ”Pilot Service – Permafrost”
  • PS4: ”Pilot Service – INtegrated FireRisk mAnagement (INFRA)”
  • PS5: “Pilot Service 5 – Local atmospheric pollutant forecast”
  • PS6: ”Pilot Service – Improving Safety for Shipping in the Polar Seas”
  • PS8: “Lake Ice Service for Arctic Climate and Safety”

Arctic PASSION actions:

  •  Shared Arctic Variables (SAVs)

and Finnish actions:

  • HarvesterDestinE
  • Biodiversity monitoring with EO
  • TARKKA
  • Crowdsourcing

See you in Cape Town!

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Oil spill west of Norilsk as seen by Sentinel-2

diesel on river Ambarnaya

The spill has happened from the white round containers grouped on the bottom of this large zoom of the river Ambarnaya flowing from the bottom left corner towards the lake on the top.

The precise diesel images are already nicely captured by ESA:

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2020/06/Arctic_Circle_oil_spill

But here are images grabbed from CreoDias. First the still clean green tinted stretch close to the Pyasino lake outflow to the top of the image of this small river that opens up to two paths in this image from the 23rd May. There is still some lake ice on the small ponds around the river.

Clean Ambarnaya river
Clean Ambarnaya river

Next the stretch is visible on 31st May with diesel visible.

diesel on river Ambarnaya
diesel on river Ambarnaya

And finally the diesel has progressed further towards the lake on 1st June. The image is just from the border of the satellite swath.

Let’s hope the diesel can be stopped before entering the lake! If you want to investigate yourself, try this link to CreoDias browser. You can play around with different channels and make their weight change in the script.

UPDATE: Planet released a very clear looking image of the extent of the oil spilled. Many small water ponds south-east of the river that flows from the collapsed tank have red content clearly visible.

https://planet-pulse-assets-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/norilsk_20200604_106b_rgb_corrected_detail_1920_wm-1024×576.jpg

c Planet Labs Inc, 2020

Image was originally posted in this post: https://www.planet.com/pulse/clashing-eastern-superpowers-explosions-in-the-middle-east-dark-fishing-fleets-and-more/

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Arctic seasonal weather outlook released

NovDecJan 19-20 seasonal temperature forecast

Every 6 months a new forecast and the verification of the past season will be analyzed.

In short: It seems that an even warmer Arctic winter is ahead of us.

The Arctic Regional Climate Forum (Arc-RCC) is made out of three centers: North America (USA, Canada), Eurasia (Russia) and the Nordic countries (Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland).

Check out the Arctic seasonal forecasts report.

Read more at https://www.arctic-rcc.org/