Colourful Dust near Cabo Verde

Leipzig, 07.03.2025 – Holger Baars

NASA’s Earth Observatory highlighted colourful dust blowing out of Mauretania, as observed with its Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer…

ORCESTRA campaign to validate EarthCARE satellite – station maintenance in Mindelo

Mindelo, Cabo Verde, 10.08.2024 – Henriette Gebauer

As CLARINET (CLoud and Aerosol Remote sensing for EarThcare), TROPOS is part of the ORCESTRA (Organized Convection and EarthCare Studies over the…

Smoky atmosphere – North American wildfire smoke influencing clouds over Leipzig

Leipzig, 31.07.2024 – Holger Baars

On 25 July 2024, strong smoke layers from wildfires in North America were observed with our PollyNET lidar over Leipzig. The smoke layers (greenish…

New mobile lab for cloud remote sensing installed in Limassol

Limassol, Zypern, 28.06.2024 – Patric Seifert

The Ground-based remote sensing site (GBS) of the Cyprus Aerosol and Cloud Remote Sensing Observatory (CARO) has finally been equipped with a second…