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Life beyond re-entry: new Aeolus data a breath of fresh air
16 July 2024
Aeolus data are still improving our understanding of weather and atmospheric science. In Spring 2024, the Aeolus data, science and innovation cluster (DISC) released a new public data update (Baseline 16), with a range of exciting new features.
Maintenance on data Dissemination Services on 18 and 19 July 2024
15 July 2024
A software maintenance has been scheduled on Thursday 18 July 2024 from 08:30 to 14:30 UTC impacting the specific Data Dissemination Systems.
Easy visualisation of Earth observation data with new HEDAVI tool modes
25 June 2024
The Discover mode in HEDAVI showcases the usefulness of Earth Observation (EO) data in a variety of applications through a list of case-studies—so-called “stories”. The first new feature allows users to share links to the stories in HEDAVI. The second new feature allows them to export any image of a case-study from the Discover mode to the Explorer mode.
Aeolus fourth Reprocessing Campaign Data published
22 May 2024
The Aeolus mission has released its latest data update, Baseline 16, encompassing operations from June 28, 2019, to October 4, 2022.
HEDAVI Discover: a step-by-step guide
27 Mar 2024
The Heritage Data Visualisation tool (HEDAVI) is a platform developed by the French Science Consulting for Earth Observation group, VisioTerra, which allows users to freely access over 40 years of ESA Earth Observation Heritage data, Third Party Missions and some Copernicus data.
Aeolus wind data boosts innovative new global wind comparison tool
19 Dec 2023
A new system for comparing wind data from multiple observing platforms, including ESA’s Aeolus wind satellite, puts global wind data - and the tools needed to analyse them - all in one place.
Aeolus data and lessons learned: what happens next for ESA’s wind mission?
2 Nov 2023
The Aeolus satellite returned to Earth on 28 July 2023, in an assisted reentry that marked the end of nearly five years in space. For scientists working with Aeolus data, however, the mission lives on.
The divine keeper of the winds retires
24 Apr 2023
ESA’s fifth Earth Explorer - Aeolus - is due to retire soon, but will provide fully nominal data up to the end of operations on 30 April.
New Aeolus Processing Baseline 16 now activated
20 Apr 2023
The new Aeolus processing baseline 16 was activated on Tuesday 18 April 2023.
Improved Aeolus Rayleigh-cloudy winds product now available
20 Apr 2023
An improved Aeolus product is now available: Rayleigh channel winds measured in atmospheric conditions with clouds and/or dense aerosol, known as Rayleigh-cloudy winds.
Aeolus Level-2A old Baseline-11 data now publicly available
8 Mar 2023
We are pleased to inform Aeolus users that 3232 Level 2A products in Baseline 11 that were not previously released are now available for browsing and download on the Aeolus Dissemination server.
Improved Aeolus wind data now available
20 Dec 2022
ESA’s Aeolus mission continues to advance weather forecasting with further data improvements, thanks to a third reprocessing campaign.
ESA invites scientists to submit abstracts for EGU 2023
14 Dec 2022
ESA is calling for researchers to submit abstracts for sessions at the next General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU 2023).
Aeolus NRT FM-A public data available after instrument switch over
30 Nov 2022
The Aeolus ALADIN FM-A instrument switch-on and its commissioning have been successfully completed.
Aeolus third Reprocessing Campaign Data published
23 Nov 2022
Data from the Aeolus 3rd reprocessing campaign, covering the sensing period from 31 August 2018 to 16 June 2019, relevant to the first period of operations of the ALADIN Flight Model A instrument is available for browsing and download.
Aeolus ALADIN energy increase from 29 August to 4 September
1 Aug 2022
Between 29 August and 4 September the output energy of ALADIN will be increased in support of the upcoming JATAC campaign in September.
Data preservation takes centre stage at Living Planet Symposium
26 May 2022
Against the backdrop of the famed Rhine River, world-class scientists and Earth observation data-users are gathered this week in the historical city of Bonn, at the Living Planet Symposium (LPS).
Exploring the prevailing achievements and future directions of Aeolus
14 Apr 2022
A tight-knit community of European remote sensing experts converged on the Italian island of Sicily last month to discuss how the strong success of ESA’s Aeolus mission is shaping scientists’ understanding of the winds that sweep across the planet.
Launch of Aeolus VRE
23 Mar 2022
The Aeolus Virtual Research Environment (VRE) is a cloud service, which provides users with a web-based development environment in the form of a JupyterLab workspace.
Drift of the Aeolus satellite orbit
18 June 2021
The reference orbit of Aeolus began a planned change on 17 June 2021, from ANX 4.5 to ANX 2.0, in order to facilitate ground-based Aeolus campaign activities.