PC5 | Science at Night
Science at Night
Convener: Gillian D'Souza
Wed, 26 Apr, 10:00–11:00 (CEST)
 
Press centre
Wed, 10:00
Vimeo: EGU23-PC5
Scientists are taking to the night to find new insights about Earth and its inhabitants. For instance, scientists can use NASA’s Black Marble night light data to assess flood exposure and vulnerability for the Indus River flood that struck Pakistan in 2022. Moonlight remote sensing lets scientists track changes in snow and ice cover in the Arctic. And in polar regions, like the seasonally ice-covered Arctic Lake Kilpisjärvi, scientists track temperature and oxygen during polar nights to illuminate biological processes operating in the absence of sunlight.

Participants:

Ekta Aggarwal
Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, UK

Di Liu and Qingling Zhang
Sun Yat-Sen University, Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shenzhen, China

Ezgi Asirok and Georgiy Kirillin
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany

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