A-Train Publications

A-Train Fact Sheet (March 2003)

Over the next five years, NASA’s ESE plans to launch four satellite missions that will fly in formation with each other and with the Aqua satellite, which has been in orbit since May 2002. Each individual mission has its own objectives and will improve our understanding of aspects of the Earth’s climate. The real advantage of formation flying, however is that the data from the various satellites are synergistic.

Earth Science Reference Handbook (2006)

The Earth Science Reference Handbook provides a guide to the satellite missions and other elements of NASA’s Earth science program. This volume updates the 1999 EOS Reference Handbook, now that the major missions of the Earth Observing System (EOS) have been launched and are transmitting data, and broadens the coverage to include not just EOS but also additional NASA Earth science missions.

The A-Train: Constellation Flying for Understanding Earth (Poster, 2013)

The Afternoon Constellation at-a-glance. Download this printable poster that highlighting some of the A-Train's most beautiful and dramatic satellite imagery of Earth's recent events.

A-Train slides (March 2010)

This presentation contains information and graphics relevant to the A-Train mission.

ICARE Thematic Centre for Cloud, Aerosol, Water and Radiation (March 2009)

ICARE offers the national and international scientific community a set of data, products and services in the thematic area "clouds, aerosols, water, radiation" to allow them an optimal use of space and in situ observations for climate modeling and study.

The A-Train: How Formation Flying is Transforming Remote Sensing (2007)

This paper was given verbally at a conference in Amsterdam by Stanley Q. Kidder, J. Adam Kankiewicz, and Thomas H. Vonder Haar from Colorado State University’s Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere.

Touring the atmosphere aboard the A-Train

In July 2010 issue of Physics Today an article was published about the A-Train. It was written by Tristan S. L'Ecuyer and Jonathan H. Jiang informing reading about "A convoy of satellites orbiting Earth measures cloud properties, greenhouse gas concentrations, and more to provide a multifaceted perspective on the processes that affect climate."