Cloud particles measured by EarthCARE

Less than a month after it was launched, ESA’s EarthCARE satellite returned the first image from one of its instruments – an image that, for the first time from space, unveils the internal structure and dynamics of clouds. The image here shows the vertically-resolved concentration of cloud particles from the EarthCARE cloud profiling radar measured in radar reflectivity, between points A and B shown in an image captured from geostationary orbit. The dashed line indicates the altitude of the 0°C temperature level taken from a weather prediction model.

Read full story: A first: inner secrets of clouds revealed from space