{"id":2275,"date":"2025-12-03T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/earthcare-lifts-the-clouds-on-climate-models\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:17:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:17:00","slug":"earthcare-lifts-the-clouds-on-climate-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/earthcare-lifts-the-clouds-on-climate-models\/","title":{"rendered":"EarthCARE lifts the clouds on climate models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2025\/12\/earthcare_improves_estimates_of_how_clouds_influence_earth_s_energy_balance\/27005786-1-eng-GB\/EarthCARE_improves_estimates_of_how_clouds_influence_Earth_s_energy_balance_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"EarthCARE improves estimates of how clouds influence Earth\u2019s energy balance\" \/><\/p>\n<p>True to its promise, the European Space Agency\u2019s EarthCARE satellite is now being used to calculate directly how clouds and aerosols influence Earth\u2019s energy balance \u2013 the all-important balance that regulates our climate. In doing so, EarthCARE is poised to sharpen the accuracy of climate models, the very tools that guide global climate policy and action.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True to its promise, the European Space Agency\u2019s EarthCARE satellite is now being used to calculate directly how clouds and aerosols influence Earth\u2019s energy balance \u2013 the all-important balance that regulates our climate. In doing so, EarthCARE is poised to sharpen the accuracy of climate models, the very tools that guide global climate policy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}