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The eruption of Piton de la Fournaise observed by the web platform VolcPlume

The Piton de la Fournaise, reaching an altitude of 2,632 metres, is the active volcano on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. Piton de la Fournaise is one […]

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Volcanic eruption in Tonga seen from geostationnary satellites

On 14 January, the Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai undersea volcano erupted and caused a tsunami. It flooded the coasts of Japan, the United States and killed two people in Peru. The eruption […]

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The ACTRIS Data Portal is now open

The ACTRIS data portal has been open to users since the beginning of September. This first version brings together more than 200,000 FAIR data sets on around 150 atmospheric variables, […]

AERIS/SATMOS

MTG-I1 began releasing pre-operational data

The Meteosat Third Generation MTG-I1 geostationary weather satellite was launched on December 13, 2022. Operational dissemination of its data was initially scheduled for the end of 2023, but has still […]

AERIS/SEDOO

Focus on BAMED and GIRAFE tools

BAMED (Boundary Layer Pressurized Balloons trajectory simulation) is a Fortran-based numerical tool for simulating the trajectories of boundary layer pressurized balloons (BLPBs) under given meteorological conditions. The model simulates the […]

AERIS/ESPRI

AERIS in action for the MAESTRO campaign

The MAESTRO (Mesoscale organization of tropical convection) campaign is a measurement campaign to study the mechanisms of mesoscale organization of convection and the impact of this organization on climate, as […]

AERIS/ICARE

New Thredds service for optimized data management

AERIS/ICARE is pleased to announce the launch of a new Thredds service (Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services) at : https://thredds.icare.univ-lille.fr with access to Sentinel 5P, GEORING and geostationary data […]

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ACTRIS Data Center Workshop 2024

The ACTRIS Data Center workshop took place from June 18 to 20 in Lille. This annual meeting between all the components of the ACTRIS data center was an opportunity to […]

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Launch of EarthCare satellite

EarthCARE, the most complex of all of ESA’s Earth Explorer missions, will quantify and reduce the uncertainty about the role that clouds and aerosols play in heating and cooling Earth’s […]

AERIS/ICARE

New product on monthly occurrences by cloud type developed by AERIS/ICARE

As part of the preparation for the CNES/ISA C3IEL (Cluster for Cloud evolution, Climate and Lightning) space mission, the need was expressed to be able to identify the areas with […]

AERIS/ESPRI

FINAL PREPARATIONS FOR THE MAESTRO CAMPAIGN BY THE AERIS/ESPRI TEAM

The MAESTRO (Mesoscale organization of tropical convection) campaign is aimed at studying the mesoscale organization of convection and its impact on climate, as well as assessing the quality of new […]