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About EarthCARE
About EarthCARE
EarthCARE (the Earth Cloud, Aerosol and Radiation Explorer) is a joint ESA – JAXA satellite launched in May 2024 to uncover the secrets of clouds and aerosols and their role in the climate system. This site promotes and supports the scientific exploitation of EarthCARE, and is maintained by the ESA-funded EarthCARE science team.
How will we use EarthCARE's four instruments to learn about clouds, aerosols and radiation in the climate system?
EarthCARE was conceived at the end of the last millenium and is the result of a huge amount of work by many people.
Meet the scientists and engineers who are responsible for the mission and who developed the algorithms.
EarthCARE Science
EarthCARE Science
EarthCARE is being used to tackle multiple scientific challenges. As this work develops, additional information will be provided here.
What can we learn from the Doppler radar and the high spectral resolution lidar?
Radiation calculations check that retrieved clouds are consistent with broadband radiation measurements.
How can we use the data to evaluate and improve weather and climate models?
How will the data be ingested into weather forecast and air-quality models?
Resources and information
Resources and information
You can visit ESA's EarthCARE pages and JAXA's EarthCARE pages or get the data from the ESA data portal or the JAXA data portal.
Case studies and examples of scientific applications of EarthCARE.
The scientific projects that are exploiting EarthCARE's measurements.
Links to software tools and online visualization for EarthCARE data
Papers and journal special issues using EarthCARE data.
Upcoming data releases, workshops, conference sessions, webinars and funding opportunities.
An archive of media stories about EarthCARE with input from EarthCARE scientists.
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