The EarthCARE mission: science data processing chain overview

Eisinger, Michael; Marnas, Fabien; Wallace, Kotska; Kubota, Takuji; Tomiyama, Nobuhiro; Ohno, Yuichi; Tanaka, Toshiyuki; Tomita, Eichi; Wehr, Tobias; Bernaerts, Dirk

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-839-2024

Articles | Volume 17, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-839-2024

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Special issue:

EarthCARE Level 2 algorithms and data products

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-839-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 2

Research article

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31 Jan 2024

Research article |

| 31 Jan 2024

The EarthCARE mission: science data processing chain overview

Michael Eisinger, Fabien Marnas, Kotska Wallace, Takuji Kubota, Nobuhiro Tomiyama, Yuichi Ohno, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Eichi Tomita, Tobias Wehr, and Dirk Bernaerts

Data sets

EarthCARE level-2 demonstration products from simulated scenes G.-J. van Zadelhoff, H. W. Barker, E. Baudrez, S. Bley, N. Clerbaux, J. N. S. Cole, J. de Kloe, N. Docter, C. Domenech, D. P. Donovan, J.-L. Dufresne, M. Eisinger, J. Fischer, R. García-Marañón, M. Haarig, R. J. Hogan, A. Hünerbein, P. Kollias, R. Koopman, N. Madenach, S. L. Mason, R. Preusker, B. Puigdomènech Treserras, Z. Qu, M. Ruiz-Saldaña, M. Shephard, A> Velázquez-Blazquez, N. Villefranque, U. Wandinger, P. Wang, and T. Wehr https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7117115

Short summary

The Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) is an ESA–JAXA satellite mission to be launched in 2024. We presented an overview of the EarthCARE processors' development, with processors developed by teams in Europe, Japan, and Canada. EarthCARE will allow scientists to evaluate the representation of cloud, aerosol, precipitation, and radiative flux in weather forecast and climate models, with the objective to better understand cloud processes and improve weather and climate models.