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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
Document - Quality Report
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
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
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.
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
News - Thematic area articles
Satellite data central to ocean monitoring
microwave monitoring instruments, optical imagers, and infrared radiometers, which can map ocean variables related to ocean currents
Document - Technical Note
Long-Term-Database-lidar-measurements
This report describes the establishment of a long-term aerosol and cloud database from ground-based lidar network measurements taken in the frame of EARLINET and the CALIPSO satellite.
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
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.
Document - General Reference
ESA-Achievements-More-than-thirty-years-of-pioneering-space-activity.pdf
This volume gives a general overview of ESA's activities and programmes by analyzing the single missions where it is involved.
Activity - Instrument characterisation and algorithm studies
ESA satellites and instruments calibration landing page
Data Outages: Information currently not available online.
Document - General Reference
Earth-Explorers.pdf
This flyer gives a quick overview of the 6 Earth Explorers missions.
Document - General Reference
Earth-Explorers-Satellites-to-understand-our-changing-Earth.pdf
This eight-page brochure provides an overview of the Earth Explorers currently in orbit and those under development.
News - Success Stories
Drones join the campaign to validate Aeolus data
The heading is symbolic: Askos is the Greek name of the legendary bag that contains all the storm-currents for Aeolus—the
Activity - Projects
Dragon 3 Cooperation Programme
Surveying and Mapping China Mirjam Bilker-Koivula, Hannu Ruotsalainen Finnish Geodetic Institute Finland 10677 - GSM4GCM Current
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
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
Mission - Earth Explorers
ALADIN
Aeolus Quality Control Reports on L1B/Instrument, L2A and L2B products are currently available to Aeolus Cal/Val teams and
Document - Algorithms Theoretical Baseline Document
Aeolus_ATBD_Level_1B_Products.pdf
Aeolus L1B Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document - Level 1B Processor Algorithm Description
Document - Product Document
Aeolus-Summary-Reprocessing-3.pdf
Aeolus data products were reprocessed from August 31, 2018 to June 16, 2019 covering the operation period of the first Flight Model laser (FM-A). This was the third reprocessing campaign performed based on processor versions deployed in spring 2022