Spaceborne cloud and precipitation radars: Status, challenges, and ways forward

A Battaglia, P Kollias, R Dhillon, R Roy… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Spaceborne radars offer a unique three‐dimensional view of the atmospheric components
of the Earth's hydrological cycle. Existing and planned spaceborne radar missions provide …

The EarthCARE satellite: The next step forward in global measurements of clouds, aerosols, precipitation, and radiation

AJ Illingworth, HW Barker, A Beljaars… - Bulletin of the …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
The collective representation within global models of aerosol, cloud, precipitation, and their
radiative properties remains unsatisfactory. They constitute the largest source of uncertainty …

Numerical model generation of test frames for pre-launch studies of EarthCARE's retrieval algorithms and data management system

Z Qu, DP Donovan, HW Barker… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - amt.copernicus.org
The Earth Cloud, Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) satellite consists of active
and passive sensors whose observations will be acted on by an array of retrieval algorithms …

Processing reflectivity and Doppler velocity from EarthCARE's cloud-profiling radar: the C-FMR, C-CD and C-APC products

P Kollias, B Puidgomènech Treserras… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - amt.copernicus.org
Abstract The Earth Clouds, Aerosols and Radiation (EarthCARE) satellite mission is a joint
effort by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration …

I and Qs simulation and processing envisaged for space-borne polarisation Diversity Doppler Radars

A Battaglia, A Rizik, I Sikaneta… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The WIVERN (WInd VElocity Radar Nephoscope) mission concept, a candidate for ESA's
Earth Explorer 11 program, aims at globally observing vertical profiles of reflectivity and line …

Raincube: A proposed constellation of precipitation profiling radars in CubeSat

E Peral, S Tanelli, Z Haddad, O Sy… - … and Remote Sensing …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Numerical climate and weather models depend on measurements from space-borne
satellites to complete model validation and improvements. Precipitation profiling capabilities …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of EarthCARE cloud profiling radar Doppler velocity measurements in particle sedimentation regimes

P Kollias, S Tanelli, A Battaglia… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Evaluation of EarthCARE Cloud Profiling Radar Doppler Velocity Measurements in Particle
Sedimentation Regimes in: Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology Volume 31 Issue 2 …

Mind the Gap-Part 3: Doppler Velocity Measurements From Space

P Kollias, A Battaglia, K Lamer, BP Treserras… - Frontiers in Remote …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Convective motions and hydrometeor microphysical properties are highly sought-after
parameters for evaluating atmospheric numerical models. With most of Earth's surface …

Assessments of Doppler velocity errors of EarthCARE cloud profiling radar using global cloud system resolving simulations: Effects of Doppler broadening and folding

Y Hagihara, Y Ohno, H Horie, W Roh… - … on Geoscience and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Earth Clouds, Aerosol, and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) is a satellite mission jointly
developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the European Space …

Filling the gap of wind observations inside tropical cyclones

F Tridon, A Battaglia, A Rizik, FE Scarsi… - Earth and Space …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The WIVERN (WInd VElocity Radar Nephoscope) mission, currently under the
Phase‐0 of the ESA Earth Explorer program, promises to provide new insight in the coupling …