Andrea Steiner, head of the Wegener Center at the University of Graz, uses satellite data to show how weather and climate are changing over the long term.
It was a summer of extremes. Heat and drought were followed by flooding — on the one hand, vital water sources dried up, while on the other, millions of people around the world lost their belongings to the floods. "Over the past few months, climate change has been felt particularly acutely," says meteorologist and geophysicist Andrea Steiner from the University of Graz.
She has long been observing the continuous warming trend in satellite data. With this, the university professor of climate analysis wants to "re-measure" the atmosphere. The data are providing new insights into the complex changes taking place in the Earth's atmospheric envelope. Studies in which Steiner was involved around 20 years ago now have a pioneering character. For instance, she was able to demonstrate that GPS-based satellite data are particularly well suited for climate monitoring...
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A Steiermark Heute feature on the subject, entitled "Facts worth knowing: greenhouse gases", can be viewed over the coming days on the ORF TVTHEK.
