Sea surface temperatures around the world have reached the highest level on record, owing in part to the El Nino effect, the EU’s climate change agency Copernicus has found. During the same month, prolonged hot and dry conditions in western Europe caused the intensification of extreme wildfires , which have so far this summer burnt more than 500,000 hectares in the EU – the worst year on record.…
Prof Lanka studies soil moisture and land atmosphere interactions to improve drought prediction and monitoring, aiding agriculture and water resource management.
