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  • News - Success Stories

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    Young scientists bid farewell to ESA's wind mission

    Students and early career researchers are saying an emotional goodbye to Aeolus ahead of its upcoming reentry.

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    WindVal 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.

  • Data - Campaigns (Open)

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    WindVal III

    The objectives the WindVal III campaign were Early correlative observations between Aeolus and the airborne A2D and 2-µm DWL wind lidar systems

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    WindVal II

    The objectives for the WindVal II campaign in 2016 were derived from the results, experience and lessons learnt from these last airborne campaigns in 2009 and 2015.

  • Data - Campaigns (Open)

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    WindVal II

    The objectives for the WindVal II campaign in 2016 were derived from the results, experience and lessons learnt from these last airborne campaigns in 2009 and 2015.

  • Campaign

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    WindVal I

    The objectives of the WindVal 1 campaign in 2015 were derived from results, experience and lessons learnt from the previous airborne campaign in 2009.

  • Data - Campaigns (Open)

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    WindVal I

    The objectives of the WindVal 1 campaign in 2015 were derived from results, experience and lessons learnt from the previous airborne campaign in 2009.

  • Document - Product Specifications

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    wind-scatterometer-processing-requirements-from-sigma-nought-triplets-to-dealiased-wind.pdf

    This document defines the ground processing algorithms for the ERS-1 AMI wind mode (Scatterometer) from the sigma nought triplets to the wind speed and direction, including the wind retrieval and the ambiguity removal processing.

  • News - Success Stories

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    Wind measurement campaign validates Aeolus data

    Aeolus VAlidation Through Airborne LidaRs in the Tropics (AVATART) was one of the two scientific campaigns carried out on Sal Island, Cape Verde during the month of September 2021.

  • News - Infographics

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    What is Aeolus VRE?

    Learn more about the the Aeolus Virtual Research Environment (VRE), the latest extension to the VirES for Aeolus service, in this infographic.

  • Document - General Reference

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    warp5-grid.pdf

    SCIRoCCo WARP 5 Grid

  • Tools - Analysis

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    VirES for Aeolus

    VirES for Aeolus is a highly interactive data manipulation and retrieval interface for ESA's Aeolus mission products.

  • Document - Quality Report

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    Verification Report of the Third Reprocessing Campaign for First FM-A Period from September 2018 till June 2019

    After the successful first and second Aeolus reprocessing campaigns covering the second Flight Model laser (FM-B) from 24 June 2019 to October 2020 ([RD-1] and [RD-2]), efforts were focused on the third reprocessing campaign covering the first operation period of Flight Model laser (FM-A) from 31 August 2018 to 16 June 2019

  • Document - Quality Report

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    Verification Report of the Second Reprocessing Campaign for FM-B from 24 June 2019 till 9 October 2020

    Verification Report of the Second Reprocessing Campaign for FM-B from 24 June 2019 till 9 October 2020

  • Activity - Cal/Val activities

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    UV nadir viewing galleries

    Atmospheric chemistry nadir observation from space now spans nearly forty years. The early UVN (UV nadir missions) mainly focused on measuring ozone.

  • Document - Publication - Paper

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    Uniqueness of the ERS Scatterometer for nowcasting and typhoon forecasting

    Paper presented to IGARSS-2005: Uniqueness of the ERS Scatterometer for nowcasting and typhoon forecasting

  • Document - General Reference

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    Understanding our Planet - the Earth Observation Envelope Program

    This brochure describes the Earth Observation Envelope Programme.

  • Campaign

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    TropiScat

    The major objectives of the experiment were the temporal survey of the variation of the measurements in time scales ranging from diurnal, weekly, monthly, up to 12 months of observation.

  • News - Operational News

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    Transition from FTP to FTPS for SMOS, Aeolus and Campaign data dissemination systems

    As of 15 April 2024 access to the SMOS, Aeolus and Campaign data will be changed from simple FTP to FTPS.

  • News - Thematic area articles

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    Transforming space data into climate action

    ESA’s Earth observation activities are playing a key role in the revitalised global drive to combat climate change.