Global surface air temperature averaged 16.96°C (62.53°F) in August 2026, making it the warmest August in ERA5, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reported on September 10. Extra-polar sea surface temperature (SST) averaged 21.07°C (69.93°F), the dataset’s highest August value, while daily SST reached an ERA5 record of 21.11°C (70.00°F) on August 24 and 25.
On February 7, 2018, the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service or CAMS, has successfully predicted the appearance of an ozone mini-hole over western Canada on February 12 or 13. Sudden stratospheric warmings like the one currently in progress have been shown to…
Plymouth is one of England’s historic port cities, a place from which sailors, soldiers and scientists have set off to sea for centuries. Today there’s a new twist to the tale though, as oceanographers now have a huge fleet of satellites in space to add to t
European Space Agency (ESA) launched Sentinel-1A satellite on April 3, 2014 which opened a new page in the implementation of Copernicus, the largest civil Earth observation programme ever conceived and the second EU flagship space initia
European Space Agency (ESA) launched Sentinel-1A satellite on April 3rd which opens a new page in the implementation of Copernicus, the second EU flagship space initiative, after the Galileo positioning system. The ability of European citizens,
