Key products and services
News
C3S, WMO launch joint data rescue effort portal
Data rescue is a relatively little-known field, but it is essential to complete our knowledge of the past climate, in particular in the most remote areas of the planet, where weather records are scarce.
C3S, CAMS General Assemblies update on services’ work
C3S and CAMS held their annual General Assemblies back-to-back in Brussels in June. At the events, experts and stakeholders from both Copernicus services engaged in in-depth discussions about all aspects of the services’ work.
Taking stock of progress in Horizon Europe Copernicus projects
The annual General Assembly of the CAMS Evolution (CAMEO) project, held in Bonn in May, served as an occasion to take stock of the project’s achievements since it was launched in January 2023.
C3S reconstructs the D Day weather using ERA5 data
The Normandy landings of 6 June1944, known as D-Day, saw the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies undertaking the largest amphibious invasion in military history.
May 2024 marks 12 months of record-breaking global temperatures
May 2024 was warmer globally than any previous May in the ERA5 reanalysis dataset, going back to 1940, and was the twelfth month in a row that was the warmest in the ERA5 record for the respective month of the year.
Case studies
Demonstrating heat stress in European cities
Urban environments experience higher temperatures than their rural surroundings. These higher temperatures can negatively impact human health, including causing cardiovascular and respiratory disorders, as well as heat stroke.
SCO FLAude: Understanding extreme hydrometeorological events in Aude and Occitanie in the context of climate change
By analysing past and future extreme events as well as measuring the impact of flooding on territories, FLAude will help propose adequate decision-making tools and territorial planning in collaboration with public actors.
Visualising and processing climate data within MATLAB
By pulling data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service’s (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS), MATLAB users can visualise and process climate data within the MATLAB environment.
Climate change in the Køge Bay region of the Baltic Sea
The Danish Meteorological Institute has showcased the value of C3S data for coastal areas in the Copenhagen region of Denmark.
Coastal flooding in Ireland
Dutch research institute Deltares looked into how sea level and storm surge data from the C3S Climate Data Store (CDS) can be used to address questions related to the impact of climate change on coastal flooding at local scales in Ireland.
Climate Analogues – finding tomorrow's climate today
With Climate Analogues, users can look at the potential future climate of a selected location. The application presents three other locations and their respective climates, each of which has a current climate that could match the future climate of the selected location.
