ESA's EarthCARE mission
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@esa’s cloud mission, with @JAXA_en. EarthCARE, "White Dragon", probes the mysteries of clouds and aerosols and the role they play in regulating the climate
Orbiting at 393 km
Joined July 2024
The image from @NOAA's VIIRS shows EarthCARE passed right over the eye of Humberto. This is a very rare event, as the eye of a hurricane is so small 🌀👁️🎯 EarthCARE managed to capture very interesting features, like air rising in the eye wall! 📸 Cheers Robin Hogan @ECMWF
🌀 Direct hit! 🎯 EarthCARE stared right into the eye of Hurricane Humberto yesterday. The category 4 major hurricane is currently sweeping its way north through the Sargasso sea, between Bahamas & Bermuda. The image below shows how EarthCARE's cloud radar pierces the storm's
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🐻❄️ EarthCARE and Arctic weather 🐻❄️ Check out this preprint, as EarthCARE teams up with the Arctic Weather Satellite for "A first global view of sub-millimetre radiances from the Arctic Weather Satellite" 🔗👉 https://t.co/tp1EJB8jOb
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A new @CopernicusEU Sentinel-5P image of the Hayli Gubbi volcano, one day after the eruption started. This animation shows the plume of ash and sulphur dioxide spreading over an even wider area, drifting east, towards parts of the southwestern Arabian peninsula and beyond.
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The Hayli Gubbi 🌋 in Ethiopia 🇪🇹, located ~800 kms NE of Addis Ababa, erupted for the 1st time in ~12,000 years on 23 Nov. 🛰️ A large SO₂ plume was emitted into the atmosphere. This #ImageOfTheDay by #CopernicusEU Sentinel-5P shows the emission. 🔗 https://t.co/J4fQ5albC5
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How do satellites see the winds inside tropical storms? We play a role, with wind speeds derived from sea surface roughness 🌬️🌊 Our data are used operationally in hurricane forecast services 💅 Nice article, feat. @esa_aeolus & @esa_earthcare 👉 https://t.co/NDVwxBmEiK
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EarthCARE was orbiting too far to the West during the eruption of Hayli Gubbi yesterday, but we might have caught the remnants of the plume. We flew over at 10:56-57 this morning and it looks like our atmospheric lidar got a sniff at 17.5 km. 📸Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff of @KNMI
Hayli Gubbi volcano in Ethiopia has erupted for the first time in thousands of years🌋 Satellite images from @CopernicusEU Sentinel-5P (left) and @eumetsat's Meteosat-12 (right) captured the ash plume spreading across the region.
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🔥 EarthCARE on wildfires 🔥 Another new preprint, this time: "Wildfire aerosols lofted by North American pyrocumulonimbus clouds: long-range transport and aerosol-cloud-radiative effects" 🔗👉 https://t.co/Ssfzxrk76U
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Did you know satellites can see the winds inside tropical storms? With missions like SMOS, @CopernicusEU Sentinel-1, @esa_earthcare and @esa_aeolus, scientists can track winds at different heights to better understand how tropical storms form and evolve. https://t.co/sI3GeNKvtK
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The EarthCARE studies are rolling in now... "EarthCARE Cloud Profiling Radar Observations of the Vertical Structure of Marine Stratocumulus Clouds" Check out the preprint https://t.co/8qwqxLf9ZO
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We spy, with our four trailblazing eyes, a very familiar satellite 🤩🥰
Decisions made during #CM25 will advance our Strategy 2040, which focuses on five goals to show how important space is for European citizens. This is Goal 1: Protect our Planet and Climate
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🔥 EarthCARE tracks Los Angeles wildfires in 2025 🔥 Check out this new preprint, which uses EarthCARE's atmospheric lidar to probe the 1-3km high plumes of smoke resulting from the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. 🔗 https://t.co/y6fLMPOM6W
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☁️✈️ Contrails under EarthCARE’s spotlight! ☁️✈️ Aviation contributes 2.5% of carbon dioxide emissions, yet the industry is responsible for 5% of global warming. #Contrails are part of that story – and @esa's EarthCARE satellite has the perfect instruments to measure them.
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"Together, EarthCARE, @esa_aeolus and WIVERN mark a shift from observing winds at the surface to mapping their full three-dimensional structure — from ocean to cloud top."
How do satellites see the winds inside tropical storms? We play a role, with wind speeds derived from sea surface roughness 🌬️🌊 Our data are used operationally in hurricane forecast services 💅 Nice article, feat. @esa_aeolus & @esa_earthcare 👉 https://t.co/NDVwxBmEiK
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💯 A huge milestone for EarthCARE! 💯 Bermuda's late summer skies, as well as witnessing several powerful tropical storms and hurricanes, heralded EarthCARE's 100th underflight 🤯 You can experience the adventure thanks to Diko Hemminga of @KNMI ✈️🌫️🌃 https://t.co/XjwTirJn22
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Together, @esa and Canada have delivered landmark missions — from ERS and Envisat, through @esa_swarm and @esa_earthcare — while advancing radar technologies, where Canada is a global leader.
🇨🇦Canada has announced an additional $528.5 million investment in ESA programmes at #CM25. In recent years, collaboration between ESA and Canada has gained remarkable momentum—opening the door for more Canadian organisations than ever before to contribute to bold international
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🇯🇵🛰️ESA-Japan cooperation takes the stage at #COP30! Frank Martin Seifert presents on greenhouse gas observations from space and the aim of providing satellite data to researchers and policymakers in Japan, thereby promoting global decarbonization efforts. 📆 Today, 17 Nov I
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🌪️ Windy Wednesday 🌪️ Aeolus winds improve ✈️〰️ Large-scale dynamics, such as jet streams and Rossby waves 🌀🗺️ Long-term predictions of cyclones and fronts 🌬️🌧️ Better local wind and heavy rainfall forecasts New preprint! 👉 https://t.co/aRo8je3r4W
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✈️ Contrails under EarthCARE’s spotlight 🌍 Aviation causes 2.5% of global CO₂ emissions but 5% of global warming — and contrails are part of that story. @esa_earthcare satellite helps reveal how these ice clouds warm or cool our planet. Read more: https://t.co/hfrp7PVuPw
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You can read how in the latest success story on @ESA_EarthOnline 🔗 https://t.co/jK1rbBV2ua
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Reducing the climate impact of air travel is a key goal, as the sector continues to expand globally. Aviation contributes 2.5% of global carbon dioxide emissions, but the industry is responsible for...
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☁️✈️ Contrails under EarthCARE’s spotlight! ☁️✈️ Aviation contributes 2.5% of carbon dioxide emissions, yet the industry is responsible for 5% of global warming. #Contrails are part of that story – and @esa's EarthCARE satellite has the perfect instruments to measure them.
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💯 A huge milestone for EarthCARE! 💯 Bermuda's late summer skies, as well as witnessing several powerful tropical storms and hurricanes, heralded EarthCARE's 100th underflight 🤯 You can experience the adventure thanks to Diko Hemminga of @KNMI ✈️🌫️🌃 https://t.co/XjwTirJn22
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