First day of the EarthCARE Science & Validation workshop on the beautiful University of Tokyo campus! Takuji Kubota described today's release of all the Japanese products, including those using the synergy of 3 & 4 instruments.

Nice article about the various online and offline visualization and analysis tools that are available for exploring EarthCARE data - thanks to Eleni Marinou (@elmarinou.bsky.social) who coordinates the development of these tools! earth.esa.int/eogateway/ne...

Exciting week next week with the release of the full tranche of #EarthCARE products, including those using 3 and 4 of the instruments in synergy! JAXA held a media briefing earlier today and I explained why this is important (48mins in). www.youtube.com/live/9375tqa...

Aircraft contrails are contributing to global warming, but the balance between their solar and infrared effects is uncertain. EarthCARE's combination of instruments, particularly its high resolution 3-view broadband radiometer, is perfectly placed to measure them! earth.esa.int/eogateway/su...

This ECMWF training course is a great opportunity to learn about how physical processes are represented in weather and climate models, free for anyone in an ECMWF member state. It runs 2-6 March 2026 and the deadline for applications is 30 November. events.ecmwf.int/event/496/

Would you believe it: just 10 days after #EarthCARE went through the eye of Hurricane Humberto, it did the same with Hurricane Priscilla in the East Pacific on 7 October! A very different beast this one: a huge eye around 100 km across, and very lopsided, with much more rain on the southern side.

New instruments always throw up surprises - Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff of KNMI had a look at the #EarthCARE lidar's surface returns and found some intriguing and unexpected things as explained in ESA's latest EarthCARE web story... earth.esa.int/eogateway/su...

So this is pretty amazing - yesterday EarthCARE sampled Hurricane Humberto straight across the eye! The eye of a tropical cyclone is small so a direct hit is rare: this is the first time EarthCARE has hit one after over a year in orbit! (Showing here also VIIRS on NOAA-20 for context.)

EarthCARE is a inexhaustible source of beautiful imagery of some of the most spectacular phenomena nature has to offer, so I've started a Gallery page on the EarthCARE Science web site, showing for example convective motions in the trainbands of Typhoon Ragasa... www.earthcarescience.net/gallery

It's official: WIVERN will be ESA's 11th Earth Explorer satellite, measuring winds deep inside hurricanes, fronts and other weather systems! www.esa.int/Applications...

Another great #EarthCARE Image of the Month, this time led by Shannon Mason (@masonshannon.bsky.social): the Doppler radar sees wave structures in an Antarctic cloud while the lidar and imager see an optically thick ice cloud layer at around -45°C. What's going on? earth.esa.int/eogateway/su...

Good science explains unexpected observations, but great science predicts things only later confirmed from observations. Brilliant article from Nadir Jeevanjee on the fundamental correctness of climate models and the incredible work of Syukuro Manabe. theconversation.com/5-forecasts-...

Great to see the new #ECMWF building going up on the beautiful University of Reading campus, very near the Meteorology Department - looking forward to moving in in 2027!

The deadline for abstracts to December's #EarthCARE Science & Validation workshop in Tokyo has been extended to 1st September. www.eorc.jaxa.jp/EARTHCARE/ev...

EarthCARE has enough fuel for a mission of at least 10 years! This is fantastic news for using EarthCARE for climate science and assimilation, and is much more than the 3-4 years originally envisaged! earth.esa.int/eogateway/ne...

The next #EarthCARE Science and Validation Workshop is in Tokyo this December - the deadline for abstract submission is 20 August. It will be a great opportunity to share our scientific findings so far and will coincide with the release of final tranche of products. www.eorc.jaxa.jp/EARTHCARE/ev...

Great news: "WIVERN" has been recommended as ESA's 11th Earth Explorer satellite following the user consultation meeting last week! WIVERN uses a scanning 94-GHz radar to measure winds and reflectivity in an 800 km swath, invaluable for assimilation and understanding severe weather. wivern.polito.it

Beautiful high-resolution imagery from #EarthCARE's multi-spectral imager in a Category 4 tropical cyclone! earth.esa.int/eogateway/su...

Taking #EarthCARE merch to the next level! You've got the polo shirt. You've even got the lego model. Now you can enjoy EarthCARE toilet paper! 🧻🧻🧻 Rated top for environmental impact by Consumer NZ 👍 www.stuff.co.nz/business/121...

Huge amounts of Arctic smoke from Canadian wildfires seen by #EarthCARE's lidar: it is being transported over the North Pole to Europe and has even entered the stratosphere! earth.esa.int/eogateway/su...

Science meets art in a fantastic and immersive installation at #LPS25: the sound is generated from actual #EarthCARE data!

BIG NEWS from Bjorn Frommknecht at #LPS25: the latest estimate of #EarthCARE mission lifetime based on fuel usage is at least TEN YEARS, much higher than the pre-launch design lifetime of 3-4 years! Opens the door to even more great science!

We're making use of research aircraft underflights of #EarthCARE to test and improve our synergistic cloud products. The image shows good agreement in ice clouds in a Canadian flight from the ECALOT campaign. We're also using flights from the UK VERIFY campaign. earth.esa.int/eogateway/su...

Just a couple of days until the start of the ESA Living Planet Symposium in Vienna - there will be a great #ECMWF contribution and I'm particulaly looking forward to the #EarthCARE session on Wednesday! www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

Latest #EarthCARE Image of the Month: reflected broadband solar imagery can be recreated using synergistic cloud retrievals and radiative transfer calculations, giving confidence in the retrievals. Work led by Jason Cole (ECCC) earth.esa.int/eogateway/ga...

JAXA's level-2 cloud and aerosol products from #EarthCARE have been released! earth.esa.int/eogateway/ne...

#EarthCARE has now been in orbit for a whole year! 🛰 As well as making amazing new measurements of clouds🌧 aerosols and radiation🌞, we've had some surprises: EarthCARE can measure insects🪰 and even phytoplankton in the ocean🌊 Happy birthday EarthCARE! 🎂 earth.esa.int/eogateway/su...

Great new image from ESA's #EarthCARE BBR, observing a storm over Spain during the heavy rain in March! t.co/NPe1vQygI8

Thanks to Timon Hummel and all his colleagues at ESA-ESRIN for hosting the very stimulating EarthCARE validation workshop in Frascati this week!

The first Level-2 #EarthCARE data have been released! These contain properties of clouds and aerosols estimated from 1- and 2-instrument algorithms. The complete portfolio of products including 3- and 4-instrument retrievals will follow later this year. earth.esa.int/eogateway/ne...

"Early Results from EarthCARE" - new inter-journal special issue of AMT, ACP and GMD, now open for submissions! www.earthcarescience.net/publications...

Launched today: the EarthCARE Science web site, to promote and support the widest possible international exploitation of #EarthCARE data! Includes: explainers of the scientific applications of the satellite (more to come), meet the team, tools, web stories, history and more. www.earthcarescience.net

Just released: an #ECMWF web article explaining how #EarthCARE instruments can be combined to evaluate atmospheric models - we demonstrate the synergistic cloud & precipitation retrieval algorithm and also preliminary “radiative closure”. 1/6 www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

🌍🌐 Exciting opportunity for science and tech experts! The European Commission’s DG CNECT is looking for experts to help shape the strategic development of the Destination Earth (#DestinE) initiative. Deadline for applications extended to 14 March 2025. ➡️ destine.ecmwf.int/news/join-de...

Beautiful images from #EarthCARE of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) in both the Arctic and Antarctic! The depolarisation capability of the lidar allows it to identify the much rarer Type II PSCs that only occur when it is extremely cold. earth.esa.int/eogateway/su...

Another #EarthCARE milestone today as it passes its In-Orbit Commissioning Review with flying colours! Now ESA's management of the mission passes from its pre-launch & commissioning phase under Kotska Wallace to its operational phase under Bjorn Frommknecht - congrats to you both for the great work!

Important milestone for #EarthCARE: Level 1 data are now released! earth.esa.int/eogateway/ne...

Happy New Year especially to those looking for #PhD opportunities related to clouds and satellite observations! There's still time to apply for our project evaluating #EarthCARE cloud and precipitation estimates: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Unfortunate that taking the train between ECMWF's Reading and Bonn offices involves travelling with Europe's two most expensive rail operators (Great Western and Eurostar) and its least reliable (Deutsche Bahn)! www.transportenvironment.org/articles/rai...

Can you believe it, #EarthCARE has now been in orbit for exactly six months!

Looking forward to using the amazing data taken beneath #EarthCARE to check our estimates of cloud properties inferred from the satellite - thanks to everyone involved in these campaigns for the huge investment of time and effort! www.esa.int/Applications...

Starter pack for #ECMWF staff and collaborators. (Let me know if you want to be added/removed.)

ESA's Living Planet Symposium is in Vienna 23-27 June 2025, deadline for abstracts is 1 December - don't miss session C.02.14 where we will be showcasing the exciting new data from the #EarthCARE satellite and discussing the exciting science to be done! lps25.esa.int/sessions/

I'm delighted that the British Interplanetary Society 🪐🚀 has awarded Professor Anthony Illingworth the 2023-24 Sir Arthur Clarke Space Achievement Award (Research Individual) for his long-time promotion of and support for ESA's #EarthCARE mission - very well deserved!

Honoured to feature in the inaugural post of the official @ECMWF Bluesky account!

New Wetherspoon pub recently opened in Marlow! Not hiding the age demographic they're targeting.

I work at #ECMWF on improving the representation of radiative transfer in weather and climate models. This staff profile article was published today (thanks to my colleague Georg Lentze). www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

Now that bluesky is warming up a bit, I'm reposting this amazing opportunity: core positions come up very infrequently at #ECMWF and the current incumbent of the convection position has held the role for 22 years! You have 11 days left to apply: jobs.ecmwf.int/Job/JobDetai...

Feels a bit less tumbleweedy here today

Great to see Cycle 49r1 of the #ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System go live yesterday! Big change to the way ensembles are generated (perturbing uncertain physical parameters in the model) plus many other improvements leading to better forecasts. A great team effort! www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...