Clouds and aerosols are important atmospheric elements that strongly influence the weather and climate on planet Earth. The European Space Agency (ESA) is currently developing, in co-operation with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) the EarthCARE satellite mission with the objective of improving the understanding of the cloud-aerosols-radiation interactions within the Earth's atmosphere. It is foreseen that the data provided by the EarthCARE satellite will allow the improvement of the currently available numerical prediction models, and therefore the quality of the weather forecast and climate evolution predictions.
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