As far as birthday presents go, a snazzy new space lidar is hard to beat! Thanks ESA's EarthCARE mission 🎁🫶 Actually, our birthday present to you is reprocessed Aeolus data, including improved aerosol products developed by KNMI in parallel with EarthCARE! 👉earth.esa.int/eogateway/news…

One reason it was so important to launch EarthCARE in the summer of 2024 was to coincide with a massive international campaign known as ORCESTRA. ORCESTRA aims to study tropical weather systems, including the role of clouds and aerosols in the formation of thunderstorms. The

Nothing like trying to take lidar measurements of the skies above Cape Verde whilst crabs are sneaking up on you in the middle of the night... 🦀 👉blogs.esa.int/campaignearth/…

Ocean colour was something our innovative Aeolus community used Aladin's lidar beams to look at! 🌈

We love a good sonification! 🎶

How can #Aeolus shed light on the weather patterns of the Amazon? A 🆕 paper investigates! "Long-Term Validation of Aeolus Level-2B Winds in the Brazilian Amazon" 👉mdpi.com/2073-4433/15/9…

🚨 Shiny new Aeolus paper! 🚨 "CCD detector performance of the space-borne Doppler wind lidar ALADIN during the Aeolus mission" Don’t miss this comprehensive DLR - English analysis of the Aeolus mission’s legacy and its contributions to space technology 😉 👉opg.optica.org/ao/fulltext.cf…

Team REaCT is on the move! Peristera Paschou is out in the Atlantic, aboard the #METEOR German research vessel, using Max Planck Institute's #lidar technology, to validate ATLID datasets from ESA's EarthCARE mission. 🌊🚢🛰 #Fieldwork #AtmosphericScience #ClimateResearch #WomenInScience

What's your favourite EarthCARE image so far? 🤔 The cloud radar's clouds? 😶‍🌫️ Our planet’s energy balance, using the broadband radiometer? ⚖️ The multispectral imager's global clouds and cloud temperatures? ☁️ ATLID's detailed vertical profiles of atmospheric aerosols? 🏝️🧂🏭

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"Dust, Convection, Winds and Waves" Aeolus features in this NASA Goddard publication on the CPEX-CV campaign that saw NASA's DC-8 research aircraft underfly Aeolus in September 2022 🗞️ in American Meteorological Society 👉journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/…

You can read all about this amazing piece of scientific coordination and teamwork thanks to Ioanna's excellent blog: "Yellow sunsets, Aeolus adventures and creepy crawlies in the night" 🌇🛰️🦀 ASKOS Aeolus Cal/Val Campaign NOA ReACT 👉blogs.esa.int/campaignearth/…

Sea sickness and turbulence worth it for EarthCARE! It got a bit choppy in the Atlantic 🤢 At least there were rainbows! 🌈 We're here for the big storms after all! ⛈️ Check out the latest on EarthCARE validation & ORCESTRA, thanks to Yuting Wu! 🙌 👉blogs.esa.int/campaignearth/…

🆕Aeolus paper! "Investigating the Performance of Aeolus L2A Products Over Europe with Earlinet Ground-Based Lidars" ACTRIS NOA ReACT 👉ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/docum…

Another trailblazing reentry for ESA!

🆕 Aeolus paper! 🇨🇾 "Aerosol and Cloud Remote Sensing Observation in Limassol, Cyprus" Measurements performed at Limassol helped validate Aeolus and will be used for the validation of ESA's EarthCARE mission too! 🗞️ ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence TROPOS_eu 👉ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/docum…

Chasing thunderstorms for EarthCARE 🌧️🌩️⛈️ Here’s a week in the life of a validation campaign, through Bernhard Mayer's images of his Universität München team and the equipment they are flying on DLR - English's HALO to make sure EarthCARE data is tip top 📸🧵👇 👉blogs.esa.int/campaignearth/…

The validation of EarthCARE includes the ACROSS Mediterranean experiment, which will deploy ground instruments, UAVs and planes throughout Italy, Greece and Cyprus between now and 2026. 🆕🗞️ NOA ReACT EMME-CARE TROPOS_eu ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence &more 👉ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/docum…

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