Validation of the Aeolus Level-2B wind product over Northern Canada and the Arctic

• Published in: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
• Main Authors: C.-C. Chou, P. J. Kushner, S. Laroche, Z. Mariani, P. Rodriguez, S. Melo, C. G. Fletcher
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2022
• Subjects: Environmental engineering; TA170-171; Earthwork. Foundations; TA715-787; Arctic; Nunavut; Canada; Aeolus; Climate change; Iqaluit
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-4443-2022; https://doaj.org/article/8b8179e3d40247e1b78917bc79cba784

In August 2018, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Aeolus satellite, whose Atmospheric LAser Doppler INstrument (ALADIN) is the first space-borne Doppler wind lidar to regularly measure vertical profiles of horizontal line-of-sight (HLOS) winds with global sampling. This mission is intende...