New low-cost wind observations from aircraft are now being assimilated in the Met Office’s high-resolution UK model. In situ upper air observations of the atmosphere have been of interest to meteorologists since the first thermometers were flown on kites in the mid-1700s. Kites were still used for routine observations into the early 1900s. The advent […]
We are pleased to be able to announce the winning teams for the final two events in the NERC COVID-19 Digital Sprint Hackathons – Ecosystem Services and Visualising Risk. We had some really fantastic entries to choose amongst and the judging panels had a hard job. But after much deliberation, the winners to date are […]
The raw material for our work in the Digital Environment programme is of course DATA and, as ever, we need improved means of sourcing and accessing appropriate datasets to support our modelling activities. NERC of course is not short of data!! There are a series of data centres associated with each of the environments, for the exact […]
The first report from an expert collaboration identifying ten key emerging environmental issues for Europe has been developed with academic input from Cranfield University. The FORENV project is a foresight system which takes a short, medium and long-term look at emerging topics that EU policy-makers need to consider. An alliance of experts led by Collingwood Environmental Planning […]
New soil spectral library addresses global food supply through advanced soil analysis A breakthrough in how soils are analyzed, known as soil spectroscopy, is equipping both farmers and government decision-makers with a new tool in combatting land degradation and improving farmers’ crop yields and income. Farmland around the world is becoming increasingly degraded for a […]
One of the great developments in data science is undoubtedly the ‘Notebook’ approach to working through data problems. Of these, the Jupyter Notebook is the best known, although others exist also such as Zeppelin. Notebooks allow you to create a single reference document holding data, markdown text, code and graphical outputs – all in one […]
A key extension to undertaking data analysis is the effective communication of the subsequent results, helping interested parties understand clearly the analytical outcomes. The very act of visualising data can also itself play a key role in the interpretation and understanding of data. In this blog, we gather together and discuss a range of data […]
We are pleased to be able to announce the winning teams for the first two events in the NERC COVID-19 Digital Sprint Hackathons – Air Quality and Recovery. We had some really fantastic entries to choose amongst and the judging panels had a hard job. But after much deliberation, the woinners to date are announced […]
A big thank you to all the teams who have participated to date in our COVID-19 Hackathons – the events are proving popular. As of today we have now completed the first two events – ‘Air Quality‘ and ‘Recovery‘. The judging panel have met with respect to the first event and the winners have been […]
We wanted to experiment with the fantastic Google Earth Engine tool, which allows easy access to petabytes of satellite imagery, current and historic. We were interested to access the data from the Copernicus Mission Sentinel 5P satellite platform (which was launched in 2017) with a view to using its atmospheric monitoring capability to visualise the […]