Polar Stratospheric Clouds in Aeolus optical products as gravity wave tracers in the early polar winters

• Main Author: Cito Filomarino, Vittoria
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Lidar; South Pole; Aeolus; South pole
• Online Access: https://elib.dlr.de/190479/; https://elib.dlr.de/190479/1/Vittoria_Cito_Tesi_Msc_Environmental_Meteorology.pdf

The first Doppler Wind Lidar in space is the European Space Agency’s Earth Explorer Aeolus, launched in 2018: it has been measuring for more than 3 years wind profiles on a global scale, exceeding its expected lifetime. The mission successfully demonstrated that wind profiles obtained by a spaceborn...