Illingworth, A.J., H.W. Barker, A. Beljaars, M. Ceccaldi, H. Chepfer, N. Clerbaux, J. Cole, J. Delanoë, C. Domenech, D.P. Donovan, S. Fukuda, M. Hirakata, R.J. Hogan, A. Huenerbein, P. Kollias, T. Kubota, T. Nakajima, T.Y. Nakajima, T. Nishizawa, Y. Ohno, H. Okamoto, R. Oki, K. Sato, M. Satoh, M.W. Shephard, A. Velázquez-Blázquez, U. Wandinger, T. Wehr, and G. van Zadelhoff (2015), The Earthcare Satellite: The Next Step Forward in Global Measurements of Clouds, Aerosols, Precipitation, and Radiation, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 1311-1332, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00227.1.
Abstract
EarthCARE, a joint ESA–JAXA satellite to be launched in 2018, will provide global profiles of clouds, aerosols, and precipitation properties together with derived radiative fluxes and heating rates.
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CloudSat
