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31 May 2021

Keywords: Aeolus Aerosols Air Quality ALADIN Atmosphere Atmospheric Winds Climate Weather Events

Learn more about ESA's youngest Earth Explorer, the first satellite mission to acquire profiles of Earth's winds on a global scale and vertical distribution of aerosols and clouds - the Aeolus mission - in our latest infographic:

Aeolus infographic

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Missions
Mission - aeolus

Aeolus

The Aeolus mission provides global observations of wind profiles from space to improve the quality of weather forecasts, and to advance our understanding of atmospheric dynamics and climate processes. Read more

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Data
Data - Other

Data registration and proposals profile

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Instruments
Instrument - aladin

ALADIN

ALADIN, on board Aeolus, is a Direct Detection Doppler Wind Lidar operating in the ultraviolet range. Read more

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News
News - General News

Full version of QRAS Portal released

The new, full version, of the Quality Reports Advanced Search (QRAS) Portal launched today, adding new features to support users looking for Quality Control Reports on ESA and Third Party Missions. Read more

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Events
Event - Workshop

Aeolus Cal/Val and Science Workshop

The ESA organised Aeolus Cal/Val workshop will take place as a virtual workshop and will be co-hosted by EUMETSAT and the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Read more

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Tools and toolboxes
Tools & Toolboxes - Analysis, Visualisation, Processing

ESA PDGS Jupyter Notebook

A series of Jupyter Notebooks are available, in order to understand how to exploit the API that provides the data access service for different types of datasets included in the ESA PDGS datacube. Read more

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Activities
Activity

Aeolus DISC

The Aeolus DISC is the core element in ESA's data quality framework for the Aeolus mission, comprised of an international expert consortium to study and improve the data quality of Aeolus products. Read more

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Campaigns
Campaign

Wind Val III

The objectives the WindVal III campaign were derived from results, experience and lessons learnt of the last airborne campaigns in 2009, 2015 and 2016, Read more

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Document library
Document library

Aeolus-ESAs-Wind-Mission.pdf

This brochure provides information on ADM-Aeolus, ESA's future Wind Mission and Earth Explorer. The Aeolus satellite will carry one large instrument - the atmospheric laser Doppler instrument Al~ADIN, which will probe the lowermost 30 km of the atmosphere from an orbit 400 km above the Earth's surface. Download

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