Your gateway to scientific discovery across the EarthCARE mission

More than 250 variables. Over 20 scientific products. Limitless possibilities to visualize and explore Earth's atmosphere.

Everything shown here comes from just one day of EarthCARE data—a glimpse of the scale of scientific exploration the ATLAS can enable for EarthCARE and other Earth observation missions.

Showcase page — EarthCARE ATLAS is under active development

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The viewer

2D Mode

Synchronized curtain plots of every retrieved variable along the orbit — pan, zoom and compare dozens of panels at once.

EarthCARE ATLAS 2D mode: stacked curtain plots of radar and lidar variables along an orbit frame ↑ Top

The viewer

3D Mode

The same curtain draped through a navigable globe — see where in the atmosphere each profile was measured.

EarthCARE ATLAS 3D mode: a curtain of atmospheric data draped along the orbit over a 3D globe ↑ Top

Phenomena

Convection

Deep convective towers resolved from anvil top to precipitating core.

Deep convective system seen in a radar reflectivity curtain Convective towers and anvil outflow in radar and lidar curtains
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Phenomena

Typhoon Sinlaku

A slice straight through a tropical cyclone — eye, eyewall and outflow in one curtain.

Cross-section through Typhoon Sinlaku showing eye and eyewall structure ↑ Top

Phenomena

Mid-Latitude Cyclone

A frontal system in cross-section — cloud bands, conveyor belts and precipitation across the storm track.

Cross-section of a mid-latitude cyclone with layered frontal cloud bands ↑ Top

Phenomena

Dust Storm

Elevated dust layers traced by the atmospheric lidar across thousands of kilometres.

Elevated dust layers in an ATLID lidar backscatter curtain ↑ Top

Phenomena

Marine Shallow Clouds

Warm boundary-layer clouds and drizzle, captured at the radar's finest sensitivity.

Shallow marine boundary-layer clouds in a high-sensitivity radar curtain ↑ Top

Phenomena

Sea Ice

Polar orbits over the ice edge — surface, clouds and precipitation in a single view.

Polar orbit over sea ice with radar and lidar curtains Sea ice edge crossing with cloud and precipitation profiles Surface backscatter contrast across the sea ice boundary
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Phenomena

Amazon Rainforest

Moist tropical convection and aerosol above the world's largest rainforest.

Convection and aerosol above the Amazon rainforest ↑ Top

Phenomena

Insect Detection

Not every echo is a cloud — biological scatterers fill the boundary layer over land.

Biological scatterers filling the boundary layer in radar data over land ↑ Top

Products & science

ATLID L1b

Raw attenuated backscatter from the atmospheric lidar, straight from Level 1b.

ATLID Level 1b attenuated backscatter curtain ↑ Top

Products & science

Broadband Radiometer

Top-of-atmosphere radiative fluxes alongside the profiles that explain them.

Broadband radiometer top-of-atmosphere flux panels ↑ Top

Products & science

Cloud Radiative Effects

How much do clouds warm or cool the column? Radiative effects, profile by profile.

Derived cloud radiative effect profiles ↑ Top

Products & science

Synergistic Retrievals

Radar, lidar and imager combined — the synergy products at full resolution.

Synergistic radar, lidar and imager retrieval curtains ↑ Top

Products & science

Geolocation

Every pixel georeferenced — follow the exact ground track of each measurement on the globe.

Georeferenced measurement track on the 3D globe Ground-track geolocation of curtain profiles over the orbit map Per-pixel georeferencing detail along the measurement track
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Workflow

Presentation-Ready Exports

Every view exports as a publication-quality visual in one click — from exploration to presentation slide in seconds.

Exported EarthCARE ATLAS visual ready for a presentation slide Publication-quality PNG export of a curtain view
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