Welcome to this test of the EarthCARE Validation Portal.
Introduction to the EarthCARE mission
EarthCARE will measure the 3D structure of cloud and aerosols, together with collocated observations of solar (shortwave) and terrestrial (thermal) radiation. For this purpose, the satellite carries four scientific instruments, two active instruments – a lidar and a radar – to measure the vertical distribution of clouds and aerosols, an imager to collect cloud and aerosol information across the satellite ground track and a broadband radiometer for measuring outgoing reflected solar and emitted thermal at the top of the atmosphere.
EarthCARE Validation
The geophysical validation of EarthCARE involves a suite of correlative instruments and methods. This portal provides an overview of the validation activities and support functions for the validation teams.
The scientists in the EarthCARE validation team will collaborate with ESA algorithm and instrument experts and will be provided with preliminary EarthCARE data products as soon as available, hence well before public release of the consolidated data products.
Scientists that want to collaborate are requested to contact esa-ecvt@earthcare.esa.int
News
- The EarthCARE launch date has been set to September 2022. Further news on the mission status can be found here (Mission Status)
Resources
- The Scientific Validation Implementation Plan (not yet available)
- The (restricted) portal for the ESA EarthCARE Validation Team Principal Investigators
- The reference documents of the EarthCARE Validation Announcement of Opportunity (now closed, but you can still contact esa-ecvt@earthcare.esa.int in case you are interested in collaboration)
- The report of the 1st ESA EarthCARE Validation Workshop held in June 2018 in Bonn, Germany
- The ESA Atmospheric Validation Data Centre (EVDC)
- [Links to already existing overpass and visualisation tools, placeholder for future tools]