Validation of Aeolus winds using ground-based radars in Antarctica and in northern Sweden

• Published in: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
• Main Authors: Belova, Evgenia, Kirkwood, Sheila, Voelger, Peter, Chatterjee, Sourav, Satheesan, Karathazhiyath, Hagelin, Susanna, Lindskog, Magnus, Körnich, Heiner
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Aeolus; Antarctic; Arctic; Mara; Antarc*; Antarctica; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-5415-2021; https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/14/5415/2021/

Winds measured by lidar from the Aeolus satellite are compared with winds measured by two ground-based radars – MARA in Antarctica (70.77 ∘ S, 11.73 ∘ E) and ESRAD (67.88 ∘ N, 21.10 ∘ E) in Arctic Sweden – for the period 1 July–31 December 2019. Aeolus is a demonstrator mission to test whether winds...