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.
Latest news
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New peer-reviewed paper: Evolution of the ESA CCI Soil Moisture climate data records and their underlying merging methodology
May 26, 2019 -
Plants and People: Matthias Forkel interviewed for museum exhibition
April 29, 2019 -
C3S soil moisture data used in European State of the Climate report 2018
April 16, 2019 -
Wouter Dorigo and Wolfgang Wagner are Highly Cited Researchers 2018
Nov. 28, 2018 -
geo4women scholarship report 2018
Nov. 12, 2018 -
Best Paper Award 2017 for Forkel, Vreugdenhil and Wieser
Oct. 30, 2018 -
The first European app to empower citizens against floods, fires and extreme weather
Oct. 22, 2018