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Upcoming NASA
METSAT Systems
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“CloudSat”
Scheduled Launch: 03/2003
CloudSat's primary goal is to furnish data needed to evaluate and improve the
way clouds are parameterized in global models thereby contributing to better
predictions of clouds and, thus, to their poorly understood role in affecting
climate change through what is referred to as cloud-climate feedback.