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Mission - Earth Explorers
Aeolus
This is currently the only technology that can provide direct wind profile observations in clear air, inside thin clouds
News - Success Stories
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
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
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
ESA satellites and instruments calibration landing page
Data Outages: Information currently not available online.
Document - Technical Note
Aeolus-main-baseline-11-processor-improvements.pdf
This document lists the main improvements to Aeolus processor baseline 11.
Mission - Earth Explorers
ALADIN Reports
quality reports about the public L2B Wind product: Monthly L2B reports Reports for the Aeolus L2A Aerosol/Cloud products are currently
Document - Proceedings
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
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.
News - Operational News
Aeolus activates new range bin setting
stratosphere coupled with an overlying westerly jet moving gradually upwards, countering the expected downward propagation of the current
News - Thematic area articles
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 - General Reference
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
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
Aeolus Overview
Currently, the global distribution of conventional wind profile measurements is not homogenous and mainly located over land
Data - Announcement of Opportunity (Restrained)
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
Document - General Reference
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
Aeolus-L2A-ATBD.pdf
This document contains the L2A Algorithms and descriptions (Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document).
News - Operational News
A Guide to Aeolus Range Bin Settings
Current Range Bin Settings Multiple Aeolus Range Bin Settings are active at the same time.
News - Data Release news
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 - Success Stories
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