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The Remote Sensing Research Group has developed the longest global snow cover data set (1979 – 2023) in the frame of the European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative SNOW project.

The gap-filled dataset facilitates most detailed analysis of global snow dynamics to date and is available for the public free of charge (details and links are published in the Journal Remote Sensing of Environment).
On Monday March 2^nd, ESA has published a press release (see link) to highlight the unique development and global snow time series. If you need further information, you are welcome to ask Stefan Wunderle. 
 

The NCCR CLIM+ Programme on 'Climate Extremes & Society' (www.nccr-climplus.ch) has been approved for funding by the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF for the coming 4 years. With 47 PIs, 10 project partners, 20 partner institutions and 22 stakeholder organisations from health to finance and agriculture, NCCR-CLIM+ will unite expertise from both the natural and social sciences to support Switzerland’s effective transformation towards a more resilient and safer future (Co-lead by the University of Bern / Karin Ingold, Olivia Romppainen-Martius and ETH Zurich). 
 

Heike Mayer has been elected to the SRI board for a three-year term. With the Sustainability Research Initiative, SCNAT, together with its sister institutions, promotes research on sustainable development and 2030 Agenda. It focuses on the joint handling of social issues of higher priority in overarching consortia.