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Articles | Volume 15, issue 13
Articles | Volume 15, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-4107-2022
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Articles | Volume 15, issue 13
Research article
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15 Jul 2022
Research article |  | 15 Jul 2022

Evaluation of Aeolus L2B wind product with wind profiling radar measurements and numerical weather prediction model equivalents over Australia

Haichen Zuo, Charlotte Bay Hasager, Ioanna Karagali, Ad Stoffelen, Gert-Jan Marseille, and Jos de Kloe

Data sets

ESA Aeolus Online Dissemination System European Space Agency https://aeolus-ds.eo.esa.int/oads/access/

Wind Profiler Observations, Part of the Met Office MetDB System Met Office https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/9e22544a66ba7aa902ae431b1ed609d6

Model code and software

PyGMT: A Python interface for the Generic Mapping Tools (v0.5.0) L. Uieda, D. Tian, W. J. Leong, M. Jones, W. Schlitzer, L. Toney, M. Grund, J. Yao, Y. Magen, K. Materna, T. Newton, A. Anant, M. Ziebarth, J. Quinn, and P. Wessel https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5607255

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Short summary
The Aeolus satellite was launched in 2018 for global wind profile measurement. After successful operation, the error characteristics of Aeolus wind products have not yet been studied over Australia. To complement earlier validation studies, we evaluated the Aeolus Level-2B11 wind product over Australia with ground-based wind profiling radar measurements and numerical weather prediction model equivalents. The results show that the Aeolus can detect winds with sufficient accuracy over Australia.
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