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Imaggeo On Monday: Summer on the Northern Hemisphere

November 15, 2021
Imaggeo On Monday: Summer on the Northern Hemisphere
Summer on the Northern Hemisphere. Credit: Maximilian Reuter (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

The image shows a northern hemispheric summer day of the year 2012. One can see an impressive north Atlantic cyclone, a cloud free Mediterranean Sea, Saharan dust north of the Canary Islands, and cumulus fields near the coast of Namibia and Angola. The image was taken at June 28, 2012 09:00 UTC from the MSG satellite in a geostationary orbit 36000km above the equator. EUMETSAT provided the level 1 ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: New view on the Silk Road

November 8, 2021
Imaggeo On Monday: New view on the Silk Road
TNew view on the Silk Road. Credit: Wenzhu Hou (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

When we were following the route of the Silk Road and heading to the Xinjiang province of China, this was what we saw. The large scale wind power plant brought some hope to this very old road. Hope that with all other renewable energies, it can become an answer to our sustainable future.   Description by Wenzhu Hou, after the description on imaggeo.egu.eu.   Imaggeo is the EGU’s online o ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: Meet Noel Baker, science-for-policy advocate and member of the EGU Policy Working Group!

November 5, 2021
GeoTalk: Meet Noel Baker, science-for-policy advocate and member of the EGU Policy Working Group!
Noel Baker

Hello Noel, thanks for joining us today! Could you tell us a little about yourself before we dive in? Thank you so much for having me, Simon! I’m an American climate scientist currently working in Brussels as a project manager at the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy. I finished my Ph.D. in 2013 with a project that focused on understanding how well global climate models produce rainfall a ...[Read More]