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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
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.
Event - Training
EO Summer School 3
In line with observations it shows anti-cyclonically rotating surface currents and cyclonically rotating bottom currents.
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
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.
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
Aeolus-ESAs-Wind-Mission.pdf
This brochure provides information on ADM-Aeolus, ESA's future Wind Mission and Earth Explorer. The Aeolus satellite will carry one large instrument - the atmospheric laser Doppler instrument Al~ADIN, which will probe the lowermost 30 km of the atmosphere from an orbit 400 km above the Earth's surface.
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
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
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
Event - Workshop
Space and the Arctic 2009 Workshop
possibilities for the future : Volker Liebig, Director of ESA EO Programme Observations of the Arctic - EUMETSAT's Contribution to Current
Document - Quality Report
Aeolus ALADIN Monthly L2B Report 01 Aug 2021
These bias jumps have been traced to be associated with fluctuations in the dark current levels on existing hot pixels.
Document - Quality Report
Aeolus ALADIN Monthly L2B Report 01 Sep 2021
These bias jumps have been traced to fluctuations in the dark current levels on existing hot pixels.
Document - Quality Report
Aeolus ALADIN Monthly L2B Report 01 Oct 2020
This is being investigated, but it is currently thought to be a seasonal effect (worse in Autumn).
Document - Quality Report
Aeolus ALADIN Monthly L2B Report 01 May 2021
It may be due to a wind-speed dependent bias issue that the L2B team are currently working on and hoping to resolve soon