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

• 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-2021-54; https://amt.copernicus.org/preprints/amt-2021-54/

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. Aeolus is a demonstrator mission to test whether winds measured by Doppler lidar from space can have...