Fri. May 30, 2025 5:15 PM - 7:15 PM Poster Hall (Exhibition Hall 7&8, Makuhari Messe)

convener:Takuji Kubota(Earth Observation Research Center,Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Hajime Okamoto(Kyushu University), Masaki Satoh(Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo), Nobuhiro Takahashi(Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University)

The Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) satellite mission aims to improve our understanding of cloud-aerosol-radiation interactions and Earth radiation budget, such they can be modelled with better reliability in climate and numerical weather prediction models. EarthCARE satellite was launched on May 2024.
The EarthCARE is the first mission for Europe and Japan to jointly develop a single Earth observation satellite, and carries Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR), ATmospheric LIDar (ATLID), Multi- Spectral Imager (MSI) and BroadBand Radiometer (BBR). The CPR is the world's first spaceborne Doppler radar in the W-band (94 GHz) and was jointly developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). European Space Agency (ESA) is responsible for the development and operation of three of its sensors.
This session will provide overview of the EarthCARE mission, and early results of algorithm development, calibration/validation and application. In particular, a research activity with climate/weather models is key to the EarthCARE mission, and will be discussed in this session. In addition, research into combining EarthCARE data with data from other Earth Observation satellites and research that can lead to future cloud observations will also be discussed.