The EarthCARE satellite: the next step forward in global measurements of clouds, aerosols, precipitation, and radiation next step forward in global

Illingworth, A. J., Barker, H. W., Beljaars, A., Ceccaldi, M., Chepfer, H., Clerbaux, N., Cole, J., Delanoë, J., Domenech, C., Donovan, D. P., Fukuda, S., Hirakata, M., Hogan, R. J., Huenerbein, A., Kollias, P., Kubota, T., Nakajima, T., Nakajima, T. Y., Nishizawa, T., Ohno, Y., Okamoto, H., Oki, R., Sato, K., Satoh, M., Shephard, M. W., Velázquez­ Blázquez, A., Wandinger, U., Wehr, T. and van Zadelhoff, G.­ J. (2015) The EarthCARE satellite: the next step forward in global measurements of clouds, aerosols, precipitation, and radiation. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 96 (8). pp. 1311­1332. ISSN 1520­0477 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS­D­12­00227.1 Available at http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/55938/

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