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  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    Aeolus

    This is currently the only technology that can provide direct wind profile observations in clear air, inside thin clouds

  • News - Success Stories

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    Aeolus enhances volcanic ash forecasts for aviation safety

    Current projects supporting PANGEA include the D-TECT ERC, the PANGEA4CalVal TWINNING and the L2A+, ACPV ESA studies.

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    Aeolus Data

    Aeolus Quality Control Reports on L1B/Instrument, L2A and L2B products are currently available to Aeolus Cal/Val teams and

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    ALADIN

    Aeolus Quality Control Reports on L1B/Instrument, L2A and L2B products are currently available to Aeolus Cal/Val teams and

  • Activity - Instrument characterisation and algorithm studies

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    ESA satellites and instruments calibration landing page

    Data Outages: Information currently not available online.  

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    ALADIN Reports

    quality reports about the public L2B Wind product: Monthly L2B reports Reports for the Aeolus L2A Aerosol/Cloud products are currently

  • News - Operational News

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    Aeolus activates new range bin setting

    stratosphere coupled with an overlying westerly jet moving gradually upwards, countering the expected downward propagation of the current

  • Document - Technical Note

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    Aeolus-main-baseline-11-processor-improvements.pdf

    This document lists the main improvements to Aeolus processor baseline 11.

  • News - Thematic area articles

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    Space data help to unravel the complexities of Earth’s atmosphere

    mission delivered unprecedented insight into the global distributions of methane and carbon dioxide, helping to underpin current

  • Document - Proceedings

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    The-ADM-Aeolus-Workshop-Summary.pdf

    This is a summary of the ADM-Aeolus Workshop held at ESA-ESTEC (Noordwijk, the Netherlands) on 26-28 September 2006.

  • Document - Product Document

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    Aeolus-L2A-IODD-ICD.pdf

    This document defines the ADM-Aeolus L2A operational processor input and output data format and definitions, and is the Interface Control Document.

  • Document - General Reference

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    ESAs-Wind-Mission-ADM-AEOLUS.pdf

    This brochure gives an introduction to the Atmospheric Dynamics Mission ADM AEOLUS, an Earth Explorer Core mission due for launch in 2007. ADM AEOLUS will make novel advances in global wind profile observation. It is intended to provide much-needed information to improve weather forecasting and climate research.

  • News - Success Stories

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    Young scientists bid farewell to ESA's wind mission

    He recently published research focusing on the validation of Aeolus data and is currently working on a paper investigating

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    Aeolus Overview

    Currently, the global distribution of conventional wind profile measurements is not homogenous and mainly located over land

  • Data - Announcement of Opportunity (Restrained)

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    Announcement of Opportunity for Aeolus Cal/Val

    The objective of the current reopening is to invite scientists, new groups and individuals, to participate in Aeolus calibration

  • News - Data Release news

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    Aeolus data now publicly available

    Following the introduction in June 2019 of a correction of biases related to spectrometer pixels showing elevated dark current

  • News - Operational News

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    A Guide to Aeolus Range Bin Settings

    Current Range Bin Settings Multiple Aeolus Range Bin Settings are active at the same time.

  • Document - General Reference

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    Aeolus-Sensor-and-Product-Description.pdf

    This document provides a brief description of the Aeolus sensor, data processing and products to be validated during Mission Phase E.

  • Document - Algorithms Theoretical Baseline Document

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    Aeolus-L2A-ATBD.pdf

    This document contains the L2A Algorithms and descriptions (Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document).

  • News - Success Stories

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    ESA’s wind mission could help to forecast tropical storms

    delivered by weather balloons, satellites, and aircraft has been shown to improve its projections; however, the wind data currently