Relationship between wind observation accuracy and the ascending node of the sun-synchronous orbit for the Aeolus-type spaceborne Doppler wind lidar

Zhang, Chuanliang; Sun, Xuejin; Lu, Wen; Shi, Yingni; Dou, Naiying; Li, Shaohui

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-4787-2021

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07 Jul 2021

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Relationship between wind observation accuracy and the ascending node of the sun-synchronous orbit for the Aeolus-type spaceborne Doppler wind lidar

Chuanliang Zhang, Xuejin Sun, Wen Lu, Yingni Shi, Naiying Dou, and Shaohui Li

Data sets

Validation of the Aura Ozone Monitoring Instrument total column ozone product (http://avdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Data/Aura/index.html) R. McPeters, M. Kroon, G. Labow, E. Brinksma, D. Balis, I. Petropavlovskikh, J. P. Veefkind, P. K. Bhartia, and P. F. Levelt https://doi.org/10.1029/2007JD008802

LIVAS: a 3-D multi-wavelength aerosol/cloud database based on CALIPSO and EARLINET (https://sds-was.aemet.es/projects-research/livas-monthly-dust-aod/) V. Amiridis, E. Marinou, A. Tsekeri, U. Wandinger, A. Schwarz, E. Giannakaki, R. Mamouri, P. Kokkalis, I. Binietoglou, S. Solomos1, T. Herekakis, S. Kazadzis, E. Gerasopoulos, E. Proestakis, M. Kottas, D. Balis, A. Papayannis, C. Kontoes, K. Kourtidis, N. Papagiannopoulos, L. Mona, G. Pappalardo, O. Le Rille, and A. Ansmann https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-7127-2015

The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project (https://psl.noaa.gov/data/20thC_Rean/) G. P. Compo, J. S. Whitaker, P. D. Sardeshmukh, N. Matsui, R. J. Allan, X. Yin, B. E. Gleason, R. S. Vose, G. Rutledge, P. Bessemoulin, S. Brönnimann, M. Brunet, R. I. Crouthamel, A. N. Grant, P. Y. Groisman, P. D. Jones, M. C. Kruk, A. C. Kruger, G. J. Marshall, M. Maugeri, H. Y. Mok, Ø. Nordli, T. F. Ross, R. M. Trigo, X. L. Wang, S. D. Woodruff, and S. J. Worley https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.776

Short summary

The first spaceborne doppler wind lidar (DWL) Aeolus operates on sun-synchronous dawn–dusk orbit to lower the impact of solar background radiation (SBR) on wind observation accuracy. Increased SBR leads to an increment of averaged wind observation uncertainties from 0.19 to 0.27 m s^-1 comparing Aeolus and two added spaceborne DWLs operating on orbits with local ascending times of 15:00 and 12:00 LT. A quantitative design of laser pulse energy according to accuracy requirements is also proposed.