The EarthCARE satellite, which is poised to revolutionise our understanding of how clouds and aerosols affect our climate with its four state-of-the-art instruments, has been launched successfully.
As the world goes on, an exciting time is dawning for climate scientists. For years, they have wanted more certainty about the warming and cooling mechanisms in the atmosphere due to the influence of different types of clouds and aerosols. After years of preparatory work, the new cloud satellite EarthCARE is going to rigorously bring more certainty to humanity about this.
NASA’s PACE climate satellite with the Dutch instrument SPEXone onboard now offers the world access to satellite images distinguishing types and sizes of aerosols. SPEXone also measures the extent to which aerosols absorb and reflect sunlight.
The new Dutch TANGO satellites will soon be able to detect sources of greenhouse gases. For example, power plants, coal plants, landfills and factories. As a result, scientists will soon be able to detect 75% of the methane emitted by humans worldwide. That figure was 5% so far using TROPOMI. ESA has approved the TANGO mission.
The Netherlands is now able to make a big impact on the inventory of the greenhouse gas methane released into the atmosphere by humans. And consequently, in the understanding of where we can most rapidly address this worldwide.
On 8 November 2022 from 9:30 to 11:00 local time (Sharm El-Sheikh) Clear Air held the event Dutch Satellite Innovations for Supporting Climate Action on the United Nations COP27 climate conference in Egypt.
The KNMI, TNO, SRON and Delft University of Technology will collaborate on research and technology development in the field of earth observation. The creation of the ‘Clear Air’ consortium intends to strengthen the prominent knowledge position of the Netherlands in using satellites to measure emissions and the composition of the atmosphere.
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