Science Workshop Objectives


  • Provide an open forum for the science community to present and discuss EarthCARE science topics and results; fostering international collaboration in the scientific exploitation of EarthCARE, and growing the EarthCARE user community.

  • Explore and promote synergy of EarthCARE with past, present and future satellite missions, for both active and passive remote sensing instruments, and with sub-orbital observations to investigate atmospheric processes at different scales.

  • Explore EarthCARE’s contribution to the development and scientific exploitation of Earth System Models (ESM), mesoscale atmospheric models, atmospheric composition models (e.g., CAMS), Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) & cloud models.

  • Identify novel, scientific use cases and applications for EarthCARE within and beyond the cloud, precipitation, aerosol and radiation interaction domain; collecting recommendations on the EarthCARE scientific exploitation and future activities.

  • Investigate how EarthCARE can provide insights into climate process studies and trend assessments, and contribute to and improve data records of essential climate variables (ECVs).

  • Identify innovative information technologies (including AI) in the exploitation and evolution of EarthCARE's observations (also in synergy with other sensors).

  • Foster a new, diverse generation of remote sensing atmospheric scientists to explore EarthCARE and associated observations in the future.