This page provides a list of publications that were publish following the public release of EarthCARE data.

For Useful Documents, which primarily relate to the ESA Earth Explorer mission selection process, Book Chapters, the key Pre-Launch Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Special Issue, and other Pre-public Data Release Articles, please see the EarthCARE Publications page.

2026

1. Sasikumar, S., Battaglia, A., Puigdomènech Treserras, B., and Kollias, P., 2026. The estimation of path integrated attenuation for the EarthCARE cloud profiling radar, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 19, 2313-2328, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-19-2313-2026


2. Xu, Z., Kollias, P., Sasikumar, S., Battaglia, A., Puigdomènech Treserras, B., and McLinden, M. L. W., 2026. EarthCARE Cloud Profiling Radar observations of the vertical structure of marine stratocumulus clouds, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 26, 4619-4632, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-4619-2026


3. Khaykin, S., Sicard, M., Leblanc, T., Sakai, T., Balugin, N., Berthet, G., Chevrier, S., Chouza, F., Feofilov, A., Gantois, D., Godin-Beekmann, S., Haddouche, A., Jin, Y., Morino, I., Kadygrov, N., Lecas, T., Liley, B., Querel, R., Taha, G., and Yushkov, V., 2026. Global transport of stratospheric aerosol produced by Ruang eruption from EarthCARE ATLID, limb-viewing satellites and ground-based lidar observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 26, 607-622, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-607-2026


4. Feenstra, T. N., van de Berg, W. J., van Zadelhoff, G.-J., Donovan, D. P., van Dalum, C. T., and van den Broeke, M. R., 2026. Exploring new EarthCARE observations for evaluating Greenland clouds in the regional climate model RACMO2.4. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 19, 1323-1344, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-19-1323-2026


5. Moradi, I., Kalluri, S., and Zhu, Y., 2026. Forward modeling of spaceborne radar observations. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 19, 549-563, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-19-549-2026 


6. Aoki, S., Kubota, T., and Turk, F. J., 2026. Exploring vertical motions in convective and stratiform precipitation using spaceborne radar observations: insights from EarthCARE and GPM coincidence dataset. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 19, 79-100, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-19-79-2026 


7. Roh, W., Satoh, M., Matsugishi, S., Aoki, S., Kubota, T. and Okamoto, H., 2026. Vertical motions in clouds from EarthCare satellite and a global storm-resolving modeling. Sci Rep, 16, 2622, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-32256-8 


8. Haarig, M., Baars, H., König, L., Donovan, D. P., Ansmann, A., Khaykin, S., Ceolato, R., Gast, B., Jimenez, C., Floutsi, A. A., Hogan, R. J., Chantry, A., Marnas, F., Roschke, J., Zadelhoff, van G.-J. and Wandinger, U., 2026. The life cycle of a stratospheric smoke plume as seen from EarthCARE—tracking a plume from Canada to Europe. Geophy, 53, e2025GL119977, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL119977
    
9. Kim, J., Tan, I., Kollias, P., and Puigdomènech Treserras, B., 2026. First EarthCARE CPR observations of dynamics–Microphysics coupling in marine cold-air outbreak clouds. Geophy. Res. Lett., 53, e2025GL121514, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL121514

2025

1. de Graaf, M., Sneep, M., ter Linden, M., Tilstra, L. G., Donovan, D. P., van Zadelhoff, G.-J. and Veefkind, J. P., 2025. Improvements in aerosol layer height retrievals from TROPOMI oxygen A-band measurements by surface albedo fitting in optimal estimation. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 18, 2553-2571, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-2553-2025


2. Puigdomènech Treserras, B., Kollias, P., Battaglia, A., Tanelli, S., and Nakatsuka, H., 2025. EarthCARE's cloud profiling radar antenna pointing correction using surface Doppler measurements. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 18, 5607–5618, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-5607-2025 


3. Kim, J., Kollias, P., Puigdomènech Treserras, B., Battaglia, A., and Tan, I., 2025. Evaluation of the EarthCARE Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) Doppler velocity measurements using surface-based observations. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 15389-15402, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-15389-2025


4. Galfione, A., Battaglia, A., Puigdomènech Treserras, B., and Kollias, P., 2025. First insights into deep convection by the Doppler velocity measurements of the EarthCARE Cloud Profiling Radar. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 18, 6747-6763, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-6747-2025