Validation of Aeolus wind products above the Atlantic Ocean

Baars, Holger; Herzog, Alina; Heese, Birgit; Ohneiser, Kevin; Hanbuch, Karsten; Hofer, Julian; Yin, Zhenping; Engelmann, Ronny; Wandinger, Ulla

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6007-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6007-2020

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Aeolus data and their application (AMT/ACP/WCD inter-journal...

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6007-2020

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Validation of Aeolus wind products above the Atlantic Ocean

Holger Baars, Alina Herzog, Birgit Heese, Kevin Ohneiser, Karsten Hanbuch, Julian Hofer, Zhenping Yin, Ronny Engelmann, and Ulla Wandinger

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RC1: 'review paper Barrs et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Jun 2020
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer 1', Holger Baars, 31 Jul 2020
RC2: 'General comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 Jul 2020
- AC2: 'resposne to reviewer 2', Holger Baars, 31 Jul 2020

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RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (27 Aug 2020)

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ED: Publish as is (09 Sep 2020) by Ad Stoffelen

AR by Holger Baars on behalf of the Authors (14 Sep 2020)

Short summary

A first validation for the European satellite Aeolus is presented. Aeolus is the first satellite that can actively measure horizontal wind profiles from space. Radiosonde launches on board the German research vessel Polarstern have been utilized to validate Aeolus observations over the Atlantic Ocean, a region where almost no other reference measurements are available. It is shown that Aeolus is able to measure accurately atmospheric winds and thus may significantly improve weather forecasts.