Airborne Coherent Doppler Wind Lidar measurements of vertical and horizontal wind speeds for the investigation of gravity waves

• Main Authors: Witschas, Benjamin, Rahm, Stephan, Wagner, Johannes, Dörnbrack, Andreas
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Lidar; Verkehrsmeteorologie; Kiruna; New Zealand; Christchurch
• Online Access: https://elib.dlr.de/105538/; https://elib.dlr.de/105538/1/M3_Witschas_Airborne_Coherent_Doppler_Wind_Lidar_Measurements_of_vertical_and_horizontal_wind_speeds.pdf

Gravity waves are well known phenomena in the atmosphere, but there is still a lack of knowledge of their life cycle including excitation, propagation and dissipation mechanisms. In order to investigate these topics, DLR’s coherent Doppler wind lidar system was recently deployed during 3 airborne ca...