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sbley.bsky.social @sbley.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Yesterday, the #ESA and #JAXA EarthCARE satellite passed directly over the eye of Super Typhoon #SINLAKU in the Northwestern Pacific. Last year, EarthCARE already flew over the eye of Hurricane Humberto, this time it is impressive how the Doppler and Lidar signals almost reach the ocean surface.

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Robin Hogan @robinjhogan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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.

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Robin Hogan @robinjhogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

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

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Shannon Mason @masonshannon.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

EarthCARE's Doppler radar gives us fascinating glimpses into the motion of the atmosphere, and our synergistic retrievals help to tease out some of the processes going on in clouds. Here we find the signature of a gravity wave enhancing homogeneous ice nucleation over the Antarctic. t.co/aHOqkCtXVP

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https://earth.esa.int/eogateway/success-story/earthcare-reveals-how-atmospheric-ripples-boost-cloud-formation-over-antarctica

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Robin Hogan @robinjhogan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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...

Comparison of radar reflectivity, ice water content and ice effective radius between EarthCARE retrievals and aircraft measurements in Canada.

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Robin Hogan @robinjhogan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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!

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Robin Hogan @robinjhogan.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

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

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ECMWF @ecmwf.int · 10/03/2025

The #EarthCARE satellite will improve the modelling of #clouds, #aerosols and #precipitation in several ways. Find out about using EarthCARE’s instruments to infer the properties of clouds and how they interact with radiation ➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med... @esa.int

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