ESA’s spaceborne lidar mission ADM-Aeolus; project status and preparations for launch

Anne Grete Straume; Anders Elfving; Denny Wernham; Frank de Bruin; Thomas Kanitz; Dirk Schuettemeyer; Jonas von Bismarck; Fabio Buscaglione; O. Lecrenier; Phil McGoldrick

doi:10.1051/epjconf/201817604007

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EPJ Web Conf., 176 (2018) 04007

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Issue		EPJ Web Conf. Volume 176, 2018 The 28^th International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC 28)


Article Number		04007
Number of page(s)		4
Section		Lidar applications in Weather/Meteorology, air quality and climate-global change
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817604007
Published online		13 April 2018

EPJ Web of Conferences 176, 04007 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817604007

ESA’s spaceborne lidar mission ADM-Aeolus; project status and preparations for launch

Anne Grete Straume¹^*, Anders Elfving¹, Denny Wernham¹, Frank de Bruin¹, Thomas Kanitz¹, Dirk Schuettemeyer¹, Jonas von Bismarck², Fabio Buscaglione², O. Lecrenier³ and Phil McGoldrick⁴

¹ European Space Agency (ESA/ESTEC), PO Box 299, 2200 AG Noordwijk, Netherlands
² European Space Agency (ESA/ESRIN), Casella Postale 64, 00044 Frascati (Roma), Italy
³ Airbus Defense and Space, 5 rue des Satellites, 31030 Toulouse, France
⁴ Airbus Defense Defense and Space, Gunnels Wood Road Stevenage, SG1 2AS, United Kingdom

^* Email: anne.straume@esa.int

Published online: 13 April 2018

Abstract

ESA’s Doppler Wind lidar mission, the Atmospheric Dynamics Mission (ADM-Aeolus, hereafter abbreviated to Aeolus), was chosen as an Earth Explorer Core mission within the Living Planet Programme in 1999. It shall demonstrate the potential of space-based Doppler Wind lidars for operational measurements of wind profiles and their use in Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) and climate research. Spin-off products are profiles of cloud and aerosol optical properties. Aeolus carries the novel Doppler Wind lidar instrument ALADIN. The mission prime is Airbus Defence & Space UK (ADS-UK), and the instrument prime is Airbus Defence & Space France (ADS-F).

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