New ESA Project: Wide Swath Cloud Profiling from Space

3 April 2017, by Verena Grützun

The new ESA project "ESA Wide-Swath High-Resolution Cloud Profiling - Scientific Concept Study" startet on April 3rd within the Radiation and Remote Sensing working group. The project has a duration of two years. Together with the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, and the University of Reading it will address questions like:

• What is the added value of an active radar instrument profiling the atmosphere in the context of the passive sub-millimeter observations?
• Can we retrieve a joint profile, where the radar is augmented by coincident passive observations?
• Can we retrieve 3D scenes, where the passive observations are augmented by close-by but not coincident radar observations?

Please visit our project webpage for further information:
ESA Wide-Swath High-Resolution Cloud Profiling - Scientific Concept Study