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CORES featured in Nature
29/3/2017. An article on flexible working and independent scientists was published today in Nature. Both Mel Sandells and Cecile Menard from CORES were interviewed by Amber Dance to discuss the implications of becoming freelance, the purpose of organizations such as CORES and access to funding for independent scientists in the UK. The […]
ESA SCADAS project funded
10/2016. CORES is one of the partners in the project team awarded ESA funding for the SnowSAR Campaign Data Analysis Study (SCADAS). Our team will work on high resolution distributed snow simulations and snow microwave emission models. The project partners are the Finnish Meteorological Institute (PI), ENVEO Environmental Earth Observation IT GmbH, […]
Publication in The Cryosphere
27/01/2017. A study led by CORES’ Dr Mel Sandells is published in The Cryosphere. The research investigated a wide range of options for simulating sensor signals for satellite monitoring of water stored as snow, through an ensemble of 1323 coupled snow evolution and microwave scattering models. It stemmed from a collaboration […]
Reindeer grazing and climate in ERL
22/12/2016. Publication of a research article in Environmental Research Letters’ special issue on Recent, Present and Future Arctic and Boreal Productivity and Biomass Changes. The study stems from a collaboration between scientists from Umeå University, Sweden, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium and CORES, UK. The research combines field measurements of albedo, herbivory and vegetation […]