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  • News - Events and Proceedings

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    Φ-Week Triumphs

    In its fourth edition, Φ-Week presented the scientific community with amazing opportunities and projects—thus running alongside innovation at 360 degrees.

  • 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.

  • News - Success Stories

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    WorldView-3 satellite maps methane plumes at very high spatial resolution

    Substantial advances have been made in the last years towards the detection and quantification of methane emissions from space- very high spatial resolution data from the WorldView-3 satellite can fill an important observational gap in the remote sensing of methane point emissions.

  • News - Success Stories

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    WorldView-3 helps to track offshore methane plumes from oil and gas

    Scientists have used Earth observation data to reveal enormous methane plumes spilling out from an offshore oil and gas production rig in the Gulf of Mexico. This represents a significant breakthrough in the monitoring of industrial methane emissions from space.

  • Event - Conference

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    World Soils 2019 User Consultation Meeting

    The World Soils 2019 User Consultation Meeting focussed on space-based EO tools for mapping and monitoring soils. The meeting brought together stakeholders and remote sensing experts.

  • Event - Meeting

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    World Ocean Circulation User Consultation Meeting 2019

    The World Ocean Circulation User Consultation Meeting took place in 2019 with the aim to prepare a roadmap for new initiatives on ocean circulation research and applications.

  • Campaign

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    WISE

    The objective of WInd and Salinity Experiment 2001 (WISE 2001) campaign was to get more data points and better wind speed measurements.

  • Campaign

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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

  • Campaign

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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.

  • News - Infographics

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    What are the next Earth Explorers?

    Learn about the planned missions in the Earth Explorers programme - EarthCARE, Biomass, FLEX, and FORUM - which will further our understanding of Earth’s climate.

  • Document - General Reference

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    WATS - Water Vapour and Temperature in the Troposphere and Stratosphere.pdf

    This report describes the WATS mission, one of the candidate Earth Explorers in the second cycle in 2001.

  • Campaign

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    WALEX

    The objective of the airborne campaign Water Vapour Lidar Experiment (WALEX) is to collect valuable data to provide representative lidar measurements of water vapour and aerosol properties in different climatic zones.

  • Data - Campaigns (Open)

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    WALEX

    The objective of (WALEX) was to collect valuable data to provide representative lidar measurements of water vapour and aerosol properties in different climatic zones.