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EarthCARE's Data, Innovation and Science Cluster (DISC) is an ESA-funded consortium of algorithm and sensor experts who are maintaining and improving the European data products, and assimilating EarthCARE data into weather models. The DISC is responsible for data quality control, and calibration and validation activities.
Organized Convection and EarthCARE Studies over the Tropical Atlantic (ORCESTRA) was a large international field campaign (Aug-Sept 2024) with a key aim of calibrating and validating EarthCARE and other satellite observations of tropical weather systems and aerosols and their impact on radiation.
The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment was a large field campaign (Sept 2024) operated from California for validating NASA's PACE mission, but with a secondary aim to validate EarthCARE.
Aerosol-cloud interactions
Aerosol-cloud interactions
Recognising the key importance of cloud-aerosol interactions on climate, the European Commission (EC) and European Space Agency (ESA) launched three large activities to use EarthCARE, models and other data to tackle this problem: CERTAINTY, CleanCloud and AIRSENSE.
An EU Horizon Europe project to improve understanding of the role of cloud-aerosol-radiation interactions in climate and weather.
An EU Horizon Europe project to understand the change to aerosol-cloud interactions as we move to a post-fossil world.
An ESA FutureEO project to enhance understanding of aerosols and aerosol-cloud interactions using satellite data.
The EarthCARE-ORCESTRA Model Intercomparison (ECOMIP) project is an unfunded initiative bringing together weather and climate modellers to use compare atmospheric models to each other and to EarthCARE data, centred on the August-September 2024 period of the ORCESTRA campaign.
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