Airborne Wind Lidar Measurements Supporting The Pre-Launch Validation Of ESA’s Aeolus Mission

• Main Authors: Marksteiner, Uwe, Reitebuch, Oliver, Lemmerz, Christian
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: German
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Lidar; Aeolus; Iceland
• Online Access: https://elib.dlr.de/101460/; https://elib.dlr.de/101460/1/Poster%20ID%20112%20Uwe%20Marksteiner%2010532.pdf

ESA’s satellite mission Aeolus carrying the direct-detection Doppler wind lidar instrument ALADIN is scheduled to be ready for launched by end of 2016. DLR operates the ALADIN airborne demonstrator (A2D) from a container on ground and from its Falcon aircraft. Results from the airborne campaign in 2009 will be shown, in particular A2D measurements related to Zero Wind Correction (ZWC). Wind speeds measured during a flight along the east coast of Iceland and derived from the A2D Rayleigh channel are compared against wind measurements which were performed in parallel by a coherent 2-µm Doppler wind lidar.