. . . . "rogrammatic access, harmonisation, and analysis-ready preparation of EarthCARE multi-instrument data through a unified Python interface: file-format readers, lazy/chunked loading via xarray, coordinate and unit harmonisation across instruments, common metadata representation, plotting and quick-look utilities, and conversion to formats suitable for downstream atmospheric science workflows." . "Cloud, aerosol, and radiation research that needs to integrate observations across two or more EarthCARE instruments — for example combining ATLID lidar profiles with CPR radar reflectivities, MSI imagery, and BBR fluxes — without each researcher writing instrument-specific I/O code from scratch. Also relevant for educational use, mission validation studies, and cross-mission comparison work where EarthCARE data is one of multiple inputs." . "EarthCARE Level-1 and Level-2 satellite data products from the four payload instruments: Multi-Spectral Imager (MSI), Atmospheric Lidar (ATLID), Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR), and Broadband Radiometer (BBR), as distributed by ESA via the EarthCARE data dissemination service." . "EarthCARE is a joint ESA/JAXA Earth-observation mission carrying four instruments: a Multi-Spectral Imager (MSI), an Atmospheric Lidar (ATLID), a Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR), and a Broadband Radiometer (BBR). Each instrument's Level-1 and Level-2 products use different file structures, coordinate conventions, and metadata schemas, so researchers studying clouds, aerosols, and radiative transfer typically write instrument-specific I/O code before they can begin analysis. This question scopes what a unified Python interface to EarthCARE data needs to provide — file discovery, lazy loading, coordinate harmonisation, common metadata representation, and analysis-ready conversion — to lower the barrier between the raw mission archive and downstream atmospheric science workflows." . . "Programmatic access to EarthCARE Level-1 and Level-2 multi-instrument satellite data" . . . . . "Anne Fouilloux" . "2026-05-02T10:04:24.566Z"^^ . . . . . "NP created using Defining a PCC-based research question" . . "RSA" . "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" . "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" . . .