Nice paper, thanks! ECMWF web article coming soon comparing our observations of Humberto with simulations by the IFS at high resolution.

There are some tools listed at the page below. This image was produced by Shannon Mason using his free ectools package but I would like these to be produced routinely for all EarthCARE frames. www.earthcarescience.net/tools

Second, the signal from the "Rayleigh" channel of EarthCARE's lidar is strongly related with ocean chlorophyll estimates from routine ocean colour measurements, with the advantage that EarthCARE's lidar can continue to make measurements in polar night!

First, the depolarisation of the land surface measured by EarthCARE's lidar seems to be very well correlated to the widely used "NDVI" vegetation index - but why? We don't yet know but potentially this could be telling us something new about vegetation!

And here's EarthCARE's radar reflectivity with GOES-E for context (thanks to Mark Fielding)!

Plots above thanks to @masonshannon.bsky.social, more on the EarthCARE Science web site www.earthcarescience.net/gallery

The level of detail revealed by EarthCARE is amazing: as well as the usual change in vertical Doppler velocity as snow melts to rain, we can see the rising air in the eye wall! The imager also captures the 3D nature of the convective cells in the rain bands further out. More analysis to come...

...and the volcanic plume from Klyuchevskaya Sopka in Russia, which erupted July-August 2025. More coming soon! Thanks as always to @masonshannon.bsky.social for many of the images and to NASA Worldview for the wider context. worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov?v=154.961959...

This is the first time this process has been observed from space, thanks to EarthCARE's Doppler radar and high-spectral-resolution lidar! But how common is it globally and do these optically thick clouds have an impact on precipitation or even climate? Only EarthCARE can answer these questions!

When we look at the cloud properties estimated by combining the radar, lidar and imager (using the "ACM-CAP" algorithm developed by @masonshannon.bsky.social and me) we see this layer contains high concentrations of very small ice crystals. The imager shows that they block upward thermal radiation.

These are atmospheric gravity waves with a wavelength of 18 km, probably triggered by airflow over mountains; wavy structures are also seen in the zoomed-in radar and lidar backscatter. The updrafts bring air to liquid saturation and droplets form, but colder than -40°C they immediately freeze.

ESA has performed careful calculations of projected fuel usage in the case of weak, moderate and strong solar activity - if the next solar maximum is weak, EarthCARE would have fuel for much longer than 10 years! Let's hope the instruments keep operating as successfully as they have so far...🤞

It depends where you are when you access the site. www.windowscentral.com/software-app...

Congratulations to the WIVERN team for all their amazing work in preparing the case for selection, particularly to Professor Anthony Illingworth who had the original idea for WIVERN, as well as being the Father of EarthCARE!