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TRACE

retired
Science ExplorationLEOCOSPAR 1998-020ALaunched 4/2/1998
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Mission & Launch
Launch Mission
TRACE Mission
Launch Vehicle
Pegasus XL
Launch Date
4/2/1998
Last Contact
6/21/2010
Orbit & Mass
Orbit Class
LEO
Altitude
619.5 km
Inclination
97.8 deg
Dry Mass
250 kg
Total Mass
250 kg
Payload Classification
Mission Type
Science Exploration
Payload Category
AST
Payload Class
C
Organizations
Operator
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Manufacturer
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Registry
COSPAR ID
1998-020A
UN Registration
ST/SG/SER.E/344
Track
Mentions
52
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Thermal Trace is based mainly on ERA5-HEAT, a UTCI dataset derived from ERA5 reanalysis, with a typical latency of about five days.

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Thermal Trace joins other C3S applications including Climate Pulse, the Interactive Climate Atlas, ERA Explorer, and the Global Temperature Trend Monitor.

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Thermal Trace was developed over several months by teams across C3S and the ECMWF with support from the ASPECT Horizon Europe project.

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Thermal Trace allows users to explore, visualize, share, and extract more than 80 years of global heat and cold stress data in seconds.

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Thermal Trace supports daily, monthly, seasonal, and annual views of thermal stress data.

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Thermal Trace is a web application developed by C3S at the ECMWF.

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Thermal Trace uses Zarr storage as part of the ECMWF Data Stores strategy for a cloud-ready ARCO Data Lake.

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Thermal Trace can track the annual number of very strong and extreme heat-stress days in Athens from 1940 onward.

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Thermal Trace lets users download the data behind each chart and access the full dataset through the Climate Data Store.

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Thermal Trace can be used to reconstruct exposure during specific weather events such as a heatwave day in Córdoba with about 40.2 °C air temperature and about 43.3 °C perceived temperature.

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Thermal Trace lets users select locations by clicking a map, typing a place name, using device geolocation, or drawing a custom region.

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Thermal Trace can display the Great Frost of 1962/63 in Europe.

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Thermal Trace can map the number of days with at least strong heat stress or cold stress in a given year, including 2024.

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Thermal Trace provides map, chart, and downloadable table views of heat and cold stress information.

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