The image collection below is organised thematically (use tags at the top of the page). Click on each thumbnail image to see a more detailed title and caption for context, or to download. Click on the main image again to visit the image source location for additional detail. 

Greenhouse Gases (GHG) CO₂

• GHG Monthly European
• GHG Monthly Global
• GHG Yearly European
• GHG Yearly Global
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Glaciers

• Glacier 1950 area (GeoJSON)
• Glacier 2016 area (GeoJSON)

Lakes

• CCI Lakes Continents

Land Cover 1

• Afghanistan
• Belgium
• Bolivia
• Honduras
• Portugal
• Senegal

Arctic Sea Ice

• Arctic Sea Ice

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Land Cover 2

• Rain Forest Regions
• Urban Regions

Land Surface Temperature (LST)

• World Capital Cities LST Max Per Year - Set 1 
• World Capital Cities LST 95th Percentile per Year - Set 1
• World Capital Cities LST Max Per Year - Set 2
• Wordl Capital Cities LST 95th Percentile per year - Set 2
• Legend for Finding Cities

Sea Surface Temperature

• Monthly Global SST Mean
• Yearly Global SST Mean

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Information on Datasets

Arctic Sea Ice Extent

ICSV file of late summer (September) sea-ice extent given in million km² in the Arctic as measured by satellites from 1979-2022. https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2023/05/Late_summer_sea-ice_extent_in_the_Arctic.

Greenhouse Gases (GHG) CO₂

Includes four csv files that show mole fractions of atmospheric carbon dioxide (XCO2). For more information on this dataset see: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/070522ac6a5d4973a95c544beef714b4. The data in the csv files is provided in yearly and monthly resolution, on a global scale and restricted to European countries.

Glaciers

Includes several geojson files derived from Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (GLAMOS) database. https://glamos.ch/en/downloads#inventories/A55f-03as well as ESA-CCI Glaciers team. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.909133.

Lakes

CSV file of area and count of lakes, monitored by satellites. File has been processed using script available here https://github.com/littlepictures/lakes_area_monitored_from_space.

Land Surface Temperature (LST)

Contains files for global capital cities with maximum and 95th percentile LST per year. The data is given in °C. For more information on this dataset see: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/6babb8d9a8d247bcb3da6aed42f4b59a. The data in the csv files is provided in yearly resolution, plus a legend file for identification of the cities.

Land Cover 1 (lc-1)

Yearly Land Cover Composition km² of a certain land cover class defined based on the UN Land Cover Classification System (LCCS). The data is given in km². For more information on this dataset see: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b382ebe6679d44b8b0e68ea4ef4b701c. The data in the csv files is provided in yearly resolution, on a global scale and one file per country. A file for Europe as a whole is also contained in this repository.

Land Cover 2 (lc-2)

This topic contains two files: rainforest_regions.csv and urban_regions.csv. rainforest_regions.csv lists the change in rainforest cover (measured in km²) with respect to the reference value from 1992 for Brazil and the Australian state Victoria. urban_regions.csv lists the change in urban areas in the same way, just also for the cities of Mogadishu, Guangzhou, and Lagos. For more information on this dataset see: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b382ebe6679d44b8b0e68ea4ef4b701c.

Sea Surface Temperature (SST)

Contains four csv files: One with monthly means of global sea surface temperature, one with yearly means. The data is given in Celsius. For more information on this dataset see: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/62c0f97b1eac4e0197a674870afe1ee6.