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Validation of the Aeolus L2B wind product with airborne wind lidar measurements in the polar North Atlantic region and in the tropics
Benjamin Witschas
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Christian Lemmerz
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Alexander Geiß
Meteorologisches Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 80333 Munich, Germany
Oliver Lux
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Uwe Marksteiner
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Stephan Rahm
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Oliver Reitebuch
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Andreas Schäfler
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Fabian Weiler
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
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- Long-Term Validation of Aeolus Level-2B Winds in the Brazilian Amazon A. Yoshida et al. 10.3390/atmos15091026
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- Gravity waves above the northern Atlantic and Europe during streamer events using Aeolus S. Wüst et al. 10.5194/amt-18-1591-2025
- The impact of Aeolus winds on near-surface wind forecasts over tropical ocean and high-latitude regions H. Zuo & C. Hasager 10.5194/amt-16-3901-2023
- 3D wind observations with a compact mobile lidar based on tropo- and stratospheric aerosol backscatter T. Mense et al. 10.5194/amt-17-1665-2024
- Validation activities of Aeolus wind products on the southeastern Iberian Peninsula J. Abril-Gago et al. 10.5194/acp-23-8453-2023
- The impacts of assimilating Aeolus horizontal line-of-sight winds on numerical predictions of Hurricane Ida (2021) and a mesoscale convective system over the Atlantic Ocean C. Feng & Z. Pu 10.5194/amt-16-2691-2023
- Airborne coherent wind lidar measurements of the momentum flux profile from orographically induced gravity waves B. Witschas et al. 10.5194/amt-16-1087-2023
- CCD detector performance of the space-borne Doppler wind lidar ALADIN during the Aeolus mission O. Lux et al. 10.1364/AO.532217
- Validation of Aeolus L2B products over the tropical Atlantic using radiosondes M. Borne et al. 10.5194/amt-17-561-2024
- Unexpected self-lofting and dynamical confinement of volcanic plumes: the Raikoke 2019 case S. Khaykin et al. 10.1038/s41598-022-27021-0
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This manuscript discusses the basis and uncertainties of the Aeolus mission performance and its improvement over time. Aeolus is a key ESA mission for atmospheric dynamics, greatly beneficial for numerical weather prediction and Earth system dynamics studies. The lessons learned in understanding and improving the atmospheric measurement technique described here will be of great importance for the Aeolus follow-on mission, now being planned by EUMETSAT and ESA in Europe.
This manuscript discusses the basis and uncertainties of the Aeolus mission performance and its...
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In August 2018, the first wind lidar Aeolus was launched into space and has since then been providing data of the global wind field. The primary goal of Aeolus was the improvement of numerical weather prediction. To verify the quality of Aeolus wind data, DLR performed four airborne validation campaigns with two wind lidar systems. In this paper, we report on results from the two later campaigns, performed in Iceland and the tropics.
In August 2018, the first wind lidar Aeolus was launched into space and has since then been...
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