{"id":2832,"date":"2026-06-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/a-first-earthcare-cloud-data-sharpen-weather-forecasts\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:00:00","slug":"a-first-earthcare-cloud-data-sharpen-weather-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/a-first-earthcare-cloud-data-sharpen-weather-forecasts\/","title":{"rendered":"A first: EarthCARE cloud data sharpen weather forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2026\/06\/earthcare_white_dragon_improves_weather_forecasts\/27339799-1-eng-GB\/EarthCARE_White_Dragon_improves_weather_forecasts_card_full.gif\" alt=\"EarthCARE White Dragon improves weather forecasts \" \/><\/p>\n<p>The European Space Agency\u2019s EarthCARE satellite was developed to make a unique set of simultaneous measurements that shed new light on the role that clouds and aerosols play in regulating Earth\u2019s climate.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in a remarkable example of a research mission delivering direct practical benefits, global observations from the satellite\u2019s cloud profiling radar are being used operationally by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts to improve daily weather forecasts \u2013 this landmark achievement marks the first time that cloud radar data from space have been assimilated into a global weather forecasting system.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Space Agency\u2019s EarthCARE satellite was developed to make a unique set of simultaneous measurements that shed new light on the role that clouds and aerosols play in regulating Earth\u2019s climate. Now, in a remarkable example of a research mission delivering direct practical benefits, global observations from the satellite\u2019s cloud profiling radar are being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2832","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\/2832","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=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}