EUMETSAT Annual Report 2022

EUMETSAT ANNUAL REPORT 2022
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H SAF Soil Wetness Index (L3) Anomaly
June 2022
H SAF Soil Wetness Index (L3) Anomaly
July 2022
H SAF Soil Wetness Index (L3) Anomaly
August 2022
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fAPAR Anomaly
June 2022
fAPAR Anomaly
July 2022
fAPAR Anomaly
August 2022
Above top row: Anomaly of Monthly Soil Wetness
Index (28-100cm below the surface), compared the
period 2006-20. Product: Root Zone Soil Wetness
Index provided by H SAF.
Bottom row: Anomaly of Fraction of Absorbed
Photosynthetic Active Radiation (fAPAR) – the change
or deviation in the amount of sunlight that plants use
for photosynthesis – compared to the period 2006-
2020. Product: fAPAR, provided by LSA SAF.
“Because of global heating,
the reality is that situations
like extreme heat, drought,
and wildfires we saw in
2022 will happen more
frequently and potentially
more intensely in future.”
Dr Christine Träger-Chatterjee
Climate Data Applications Expert
EUMETSAT
“The past decade has seen the likelihood of major
fire and drought events increasing across Europe and
other parts of the world. But even by recent standards,
2022 was a particularly shocking year for the number
and intensity of wildfires and related emissions.”
Preparing for the future
European temperatures have risen at over twice
the global average in the past 30 years, Dr Christine
Träger-Chatterjee, Climate Data Applications Expert
at EUMETSAT, said.
“The quality and continuity of satellite data
records over long time series provide significant
opportunities, for instance for climate services to
design ways to both help monitor situations in real
time and to support studies of long-term trends
that could help predict what might happen
in future,” she said.
“Because of global heating, the reality is that situations
like extreme heat, drought, and wildfires we saw in
2022 will happen more frequently and potentially more
intensely in future. The climate is changing rapidly, and
we need to do everything we can to address that.”
For more information,
read the case study on the
EUMETSAT website
www.eumetsat.int/features/heat-moment
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