Aeolus Calibration, Validation and Science Campaigns

Since 2007, a series of ESA supported airborne campaigns have been essential to the development of the Aeolus Doppler Wind Lidar satellite mission, which was successfully launched on 22 September 2018 and is providing a novel wind and aerosol profile data. A core element of the Aeolus Cal/Val activi...

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Main Authors: Fehr, Thorsten, Vassilis, Amiridis, Bley, Sebastian, Cocquerez, Philippe, Lemmerz, Christian, Močnik, Griša, Skofronick-Jackson, Gail, Straume, Anne Grete
Format: Conference Object
Language:English
Published: 2020
Subjects:
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre
Arctic
Iceland
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://elib.dlr.de/134930/
https://elib.dlr.de/134930/1/Thorsten%20Fehr_Aeolus-Campaigns_EGU2020-19778_presentation.pdf
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2020/EGU2020-19778.html
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Summary:Since 2007, a series of ESA supported airborne campaigns have been essential to the development of the Aeolus Doppler Wind Lidar satellite mission, which was successfully launched on 22 September 2018 and is providing a novel wind and aerosol profile data. A core element of the Aeolus Cal/Val activities is DLRs A2D wind lidar on-board the DLR Falcon aircraft, an airborne demonstrator for the Aeolus ALADIN satellite instrument flown in combination with the 2-µm Doppler Wind Lidar reference system. Following the pre-launch WindVal-I and –II campaigns in 2015 and 2016, a number of calibration and validation campaigns have been successfully implemented: WindVal-III providing early Cal/Val results in November 2018 only three months after the Aeolus launch, AVATAR-E in May 2019 focussing on the Cal/Val over Central Europe, and AVATAR-I in September 2019 providing Cal/Val information in the North Atlantic and Arctic flying from Iceland.

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