Validation of the Aeolus L2B wind product with airborne wind lidar measurements in the polar North Atlantic region and in the tropics

• Main Authors: Witschas, Benjamin, Lemmerz, Christian, Geiß, Alexander, Lux, Oliver, Marksteiner, Uwe, Rahm, Stephan, Reitebuch, Oliver, Schäfler, Andreas, Weiler, Fabian
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Aeolus; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2022-233; https://amt.copernicus.org/preprints/amt-2022-233/

During the first three years of European Space Agency’s Aeolus mission, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR) performed four airborne campaigns deploying two different Doppler wind lidars (DWL) on-board the DLR Falcon aircraft, aiming to validate the quality of...