Gerard van der Schrier
@gerardvdschrier.bsky.social
Climate scientist at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute and principal scientist for the European Climate Assessment & Dataset - providing the E-OBS dataset.
The exceptionally wet conditions in Viet Nam have led to widespread flooding. In this image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites on 27 October 2025, flooded areas along the Vu Gia and Thu Bồn rivers near Ái Nghĩa, Điện Bàn, and Hội An appear in blue tones.
November 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The exceptionally wet conditions in Viet Nam have led to widespread flooding. In this image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites on 27 October 2025, flooded areas along the Vu Gia and Thu Bồn rivers near Ái Nghĩa, Điện Bàn, and Hội An appear in blue tones.
Summer 2025 strongly affected the Gries Glacier in the Swiss Alps which lost ~6m of ice thickness in just a few months. These Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite images show snapshots of 26 August 2025 and of 9 years earlier put the recent loss of ice in perspective.
October 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Summer 2025 strongly affected the Gries Glacier in the Swiss Alps which lost ~6m of ice thickness in just a few months. These Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite images show snapshots of 26 August 2025 and of 9 years earlier put the recent loss of ice in perspective.
Glaciers are retreating everywhere - also the Skeiðarárjökull glacier in southern Iceland. The glacier’s retreat is visible in these Copernicus Sentinel-2 images, acquired in July 2017 and July 2025. The 2025 image shows the 2017 glacier terminus in red. Source: Copernicus image of the day.
July 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Glaciers are retreating everywhere - also the Skeiðarárjökull glacier in southern Iceland. The glacier’s retreat is visible in these Copernicus Sentinel-2 images, acquired in July 2017 and July 2025. The 2025 image shows the 2017 glacier terminus in red. Source: Copernicus image of the day.
Europe has seen an intense heatwave since late June with temperatures exceeding 40 °C. The Copernicus satellite images of 22 June and 2 July show the rapid loss of soil moisture around Châlons-en-Champagne in northern France in the heatwave. Blue is wet, yellow and red indicates moisture stress.
July 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Europe has seen an intense heatwave since late June with temperatures exceeding 40 °C. The Copernicus satellite images of 22 June and 2 July show the rapid loss of soil moisture around Châlons-en-Champagne in northern France in the heatwave. Blue is wet, yellow and red indicates moisture stress.
Today’s developing heat in the Netherlands. These new maps combine observations from the automatic weather stations of the national met service with crowd sources data from the WOW network. Huge detail and we show that the maps are more accurate with crowd sources data. Get the maps in KNMI’s app.
June 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Today’s developing heat in the Netherlands. These new maps combine observations from the automatic weather stations of the national met service with crowd sources data from the WOW network. Huge detail and we show that the maps are more accurate with crowd sources data. Get the maps in KNMI’s app.
A marine heatwave in the western Mediterrranean heating things up along the French and Spanish coast. Advection of moist air over the warm sea surface onto the land - we’ve seen where this might lead to www.worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-down...
June 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A marine heatwave in the western Mediterrranean heating things up along the French and Spanish coast. Advection of moist air over the warm sea surface onto the land - we’ve seen where this might lead to www.worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-down...
It’s way too warm to wear a shirt and tie - what a suitable day for #ShowyourStripes
June 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
It’s way too warm to wear a shirt and tie - what a suitable day for #ShowyourStripes
For the Dutch only: It is time that we re-think qualifications like ‘national heatwave’ based on observed temperatures at De Bilt. The new temperature maps show that even in this small country, De Bilt is not representative for the country.
June 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
For the Dutch only: It is time that we re-think qualifications like ‘national heatwave’ based on observed temperatures at De Bilt. The new temperature maps show that even in this small country, De Bilt is not representative for the country.
The collapse of the Birch Glacier in the Swiss Alps and the landslide that caused it, captured from space by the Copernicus Sentinal-2 satellite. This is one example of what climate change does to the things we love www.copernicus.eu/es/node/88926
June 3, 2025 at 6:43 AM
The collapse of the Birch Glacier in the Swiss Alps and the landslide that caused it, captured from space by the Copernicus Sentinal-2 satellite. This is one example of what climate change does to the things we love www.copernicus.eu/es/node/88926
Much of Europe is having glorious spring weather and no rain. Here’s an image from the C3S Climate Bulletin for March 2025 showing the exceptional lack of rain.
April 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Much of Europe is having glorious spring weather and no rain. Here’s an image from the C3S Climate Bulletin for March 2025 showing the exceptional lack of rain.
Yesterdays solar eclipse as seen from space, looking at the Earth. Images from Meteosat Third Generation satellite
March 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Yesterdays solar eclipse as seen from space, looking at the Earth. Images from Meteosat Third Generation satellite
Heartbreaking graph of the Artic Sea Ice area. The current season is way out of what has been observed so far. And not by a small margin. nsidc.org/data/seaice_...
March 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Heartbreaking graph of the Artic Sea Ice area. The current season is way out of what has been observed so far. And not by a small margin. nsidc.org/data/seaice_...