Welcome to the research group
Climate and Environmental Remote Sensing
The CLIMERS group was initiated with the TU Wien Science Award 2015 awarded to Wouter Dorigo
Global warming is expected to amplify the global water cycle, which will lead to an increase the frequency and intensity of storms, floods, and droughts. The negative impact of droughts on vegetation will impact future food security and reduce the efficiency of vegetation as a sink of atmospheric carbon-dioxide, thus further exacerbating global warming. However, climate model predictions are uncertain as the long-term effects of drought on vegetation are only poorly understood due to lack of suited observational data. But the recent release of various long-term satellite-based datasets of soil moisture (produced by CLIMERS) and vegetation has created new avenues. The CLIMERS groups will use these datasets to unravel the role of water availability in driving vegetation growth and to assess how climate change has affected this relationship. The results will be used to improve state-of-the-art climate models that support the IPCC climate assessments.
Soil moisture anomalies for the year 2020 from the ESA CCI SM v06.1 COMBINED product (with a reference period of 1991-2010).
Latest news
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March 19, 2021 -
Wolfgang Wagners BeSt-digital-Vortrag zum Nachschauen: Klima und Geoinformation
March 8, 2021 -
FAIR2earth: New research infrastructure for TU Wien
Feb. 17, 2021 -
EduLand-2 Project: First Batch of Students Graduated
Jan. 28, 2021 -
ISMN and H-SAF Soil Moisture in GCOS Austrian Inventory Report
Jan. 15, 2021 -
New Dean of Academic Affairs: Hans Neuner
Jan. 8, 2021 -
Best Paper Awards 2019 for Hanna and Klettner
Nov. 23, 2020 -
Termine für Seminar der Geowissenschaften, Wintersemester 2020/21
Oct. 14, 2020 -
Mariette Vreugdenhil interviewed on Droughts by Czech Radio
Sept. 17, 2020 -
New CCI Soil Moisture dataset release (with SMAP!)
Sept. 9, 2020