8 results on '"Geiß, Alexander"'
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2. Validation of the Aeolus L2B wind product with airborne wind lidar measurements in the polar North Atlantic region and in the tropics.
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Witschas, Benjamin, Lemmerz, Christian, Geiß, Alexander, Lux, Oliver, Marksteiner, Uwe, Rahm, Stephan, Reitebuch, Oliver, Schäfler, Andreas, and Weiler, Fabian
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WIND measurement ,JET streams ,WIND speed ,DATA quality ,LIDAR - Abstract
During the first 3 years of the European Space Agency's Aeolus mission, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR) performed four airborne campaigns deploying two different Doppler wind lidars (DWL) on board the DLR Falcon aircraft, aiming to validate the quality of the recent Aeolus Level 2B (L2B) wind data product (processor baseline 11 and 12). The first two campaigns, WindVal III (November–December 2018) and AVATAR-E (Aeolus Validation Through Airborne Lidars in Europe, May and June 2019), were conducted in Europe and provided first insights into the data quality at the beginning of the mission phase. The two later campaigns, AVATAR-I (Aeolus Validation Through Airborne Lidars in Iceland) and AVATAR-T (Aeolus Validation Through Airborne Lidars in the Tropics), were performed in regions of particular interest for the Aeolus validation: AVATAR-I was conducted from Keflavik, Iceland, between 9 September and 1 October 2019 to sample the high wind speeds in the vicinity of the polar jet stream; AVATAR-T was carried out from Sal, Cape Verde, between 6 and 28 September 2021 to measure winds in the Saharan dust-laden African easterly jet. Altogether, 10 Aeolus underflights were performed during AVATAR-I and 11 underflights during AVATAR-T, covering about 8000 and 11 000 km along the Aeolus measurement track, respectively. Based on these collocated measurements, statistical comparisons of Aeolus data with the reference lidar (2 µ m DWL) as well as with in situ measurements by the Falcon were performed to determine the systematic and random errors of Rayleigh-clear and Mie-cloudy winds that are contained in the Aeolus L2B product. It is demonstrated that the systematic error almost fulfills the mission requirement of being below 0.7 m s -1 for both Rayleigh-clear and Mie-cloudy winds. The random error is shown to vary between 5.5 and 7.1 m s -1 for Rayleigh-clear winds and is thus larger than specified (2.5 m s -1), whereas it is close to the specifications for Mie-cloudy winds (2.7to2.9 m s -1). In addition, the dependency of the systematic and random errors on the actual wind speed, the geolocation, the scattering ratio, and the time difference between 2 µ m DWL observation and satellite overflight is investigated and discussed. Thus, this work contributes to the characterization of the Aeolus data quality in different meteorological situations and allows one to investigate wind retrieval algorithm improvements for reprocessed Aeolus data sets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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3. Airborne Wind Lidar Observations for the Validation of ESA's Wind Mission Aeolus
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Lux, Oliver, Lemmerz, Christian, Weiler, Fabian, Marksteiner, Uwe, Witschas, Benjamin, Rahm, Stephan, Geiß, Alexander, Schäfler, Andreas, and Reitebuch, Oliver
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Lidar ,satellite validation ,ALADIN Airborne Demonstrator ,Aeolus - Published
- 2021
4. Data quality of Aeolus wind measurements
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Krisch, Isabell, Reitebuch, Oliver, von Bismarck, Jonas, Dabas, Alain, Fischer, Peggy, Huber, Dorit, de Kloe, Jos, Rennie, Michael, Lemmerz, Christian, Lux, Oliver, Marksteiner, Uwe, Masoumzadeh, Nafiseh, Weiler, Fabian, Witschas, Benjamin, Bracci, Fabio, Meringer, Markus, Schmidt, Karsten, Geiss, Alexander, Nikolaus, Ines, Vaughan, Michael, Fabre, Frederic, Flament, Thomas, Trapon, Dimitri, Lacour, Adrien, Abdalla, Saleh, Isaksen, Lars, Donovan, Dave, Marseille, Gert-Jan, Stoffelen, Ad, Zandelhoff, Gerd-Jan, Wang, Ping, Perron, Gaetan, Jupin-Ganglois, Sebastian, Veneziani, Marcella, Pijnacker-Hordijk, Bas, Bucci, Simone, Gostinicchi, Giacomo, Kanitz, Thomas, Straume, Anne-Grete, Ehlers, Frithjof, Wernham, Denny, Bley, Sebastian, Aprile, Stefano, De Laurentis, Marta, Parinello, Tommaso, Centre national de recherches météorologiques (CNRM), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Météo France-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), DLR Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre (IPA), Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt [Oberpfaffenhofen-Wessling] (DLR), Agence Spatiale Européenne (ESA), European Space Agency (ESA), Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), and ESA/AEOLUS
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Earth Explorer mission ,[SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere ,Doppler wind lidar ,13. Climate action ,[SDE.IE]Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering ,sattelite ,wind ,7. Clean energy ,Aeolus ,lidar - Abstract
The European Space Agency (ESA)’s Earth Explorer Aeolus was launched in August 2018 carrying the world’s first spaceborne wind lidar, the Atmospheric Laser Doppler Instrument (ALADIN). ALADIN uses a high spectral resolution Doppler wind lidar operating at 355nm to determine profiles of line-of-sight wind components in near-real-time (NRT). ALADIN samples the atmosphere from 30km altitude down to the Earth’s surface or to the level where the lidar signal is attenuated by optically thick clouds.The global wind profiles provided by ALADIN help to improve weather forecasting and the understanding of atmospheric dynamics as they fill observational gaps in vertically resolved wind profiles mainly in the tropics, southern hemisphere, and over the northern hemisphere oceans. Since 2020, multiple national and international weather centres (e.g. ECMWF, DWD, Météo France, MetOffice) assimilate Aeolus observations in their operational forecasting. Additionally, the scientific exploitation of the Aeolus dataset has started.A main prerequisite for beneficial impact and scientific exploitation is data of sufficient quality. Such high data quality has been achieved through close collaboration of all involved parties within the Aeolus Data Innovation and Science Cluster (DISC), which was established after launch to study and improve the data quality of Aeolus products. The tasks of the Aeolus DISC include the instrument and platform monitoring, calibration, characterization, retrieval algorithm refinement, processor evolution, quality monitoring, product validation, and impact assessment for NWP.The achievements of the Aeolus DISC for the NRT data quality and the one currently available reprocessed dataset will be presented. The data quality of the Aeolus wind measurements will be described and an outlook on planned improvements of the dataset and processors will be provided.
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- 2021
5. Aeolus Validation With the 2-µm Coherent and the ALADIN Airborne Demonstrator Doppler Wind Lidars On-board the DLR Falcon
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Lemmerz, Christian, Lux, Oliver, Witschas, Benjamin, Rahm, Stephan, Geiss, Alexander, Marksteiner, Uwe, Schäfler, Andreas, Weiler, Fabian, Reitebuch, Oliver, and Fehr, Thorsten
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Lidar ,Doppler Wind Lidar ,Airborne Validation ,ALADIN ,2-µm DWL ,ALADIN Airborne Demonstrator ,Aeolus ,A2D - Published
- 2020
6. Initial Assessment of the Performance of the First Wind Lidar in Space on Aeolus.
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Liu, D., Wang, Y., Wu, Y., Gross, B., Moshary, F., Reitebuch, Oliver, Lemmerz, Christian, Lux, Oliver, Marksteiner, Uwe, Rahm, Stephan, Weiler, Fabian, Witschas, Benjamin, Meringer, Markus, Schmidt, Karsten, Huber, Dorit, Nikolaus, Ines, Geiss, Alexander, Vaughan, Michael, Dabas, Alain, and Flament, Thomas
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LIDAR ,THEORY of knowledge ,NUMERICAL weather forecasting ,DASSAULT Falcon (Jet transport) ,AIRCRAFT industry ,MEASUREMENT errors - Abstract
Soon after its successful launch in August 2018, the spaceborne wind lidar ALADIN (Atmospheric LAser Doppler INstrument) on-board ESA's Earth Explorer satellite Aeolus has demonstrated to provide atmospheric wind profiles on a global scale. Being the first ever Doppler Wind Lidar (DWL) instrument in space, ALADIN contributes to the improvement in numerical weather prediction (NWP) by measuring one component of the horizontal wind vector. The performance of the ALADIN instrument was assessed by a team from ESA, DLR, industry, and NWP centers during the first months of operation. The current knowledge about the main contributors to the random and systematic errors from the instrument will be discussed. First validation results from an airborne campaign with two wind lidars on-board the DLR Falcon aircraft will be shown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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7. First Results from the German Cal/Val Activities for Aeolus.
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Liu, D., Wang, Y., Wu, Y., Gross, B., Moshary, F., Baars, Holger, Geiß, Alexander, Wandinger, Ulla, Herzog, Alina, Engelmann, Ronny, Bühl, Johannes, Radenz, Martin, Seifert, Patric, Ansmann, Albert, Martin, Anne, Leinweber, Ronny, Lehmann, Volker, Weissmann, Martin, Cress, Alexander, and Filioglou, Maria
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AEROSOLS ,LIDAR ,DOPPLER effect ,OPTICAL properties - Abstract
On 22nd August 2018, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the first direct detection Doppler wind lidar into space. Operating at 355 nm and acquiring signals with a dual channel receiver, it allows wind observations in clear air and particle-laden regions of the atmosphere. Furthermore, particle optical properties can be obtained using the High Spectral Resolution Technique Lidar (HSRL) technique. Measuring with 87 km horizontal and 0.25-2 km vertical resolution between ground and up to 30 km in the stratosphere, the global coverage of Aeolus observations shall fill gaps in the global observing system and thus help improving numerical weather prediction. Within this contribution, first results from the German initiative for experimental Aeolus validation are presented and discussed. Ground-based wind and aerosol measurements from tropospheric radar wind profilers, Doppler wind lidars, radiosondes, aerosol lidars and cloud radars are utilized for that purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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8. First validation of Aeolus wind observations by airborne Doppler wind lidar measurements.
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Witschas, Benjamin, Lemmerz, Christian, Geiß, Alexander, Lux, Oliver, Marksteiner, Uwe, Rahm, Stephan, Reitebuch, Oliver, and Weiler, Fabian
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DOPPLER lidar ,WIND measurement ,LIDAR - Abstract
Soon after the launch of Aeolus on 22 August 2018, the first ever wind lidar in space developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) has been providing profiles of the component of the wind vector along the instrument's line of sight (LOS) on a global scale. In order to validate the quality of Aeolus wind observations, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., DLR) recently performed two airborne campaigns over central Europe deploying two different Doppler wind lidars (DWLs) on board the DLR Falcon aircraft. The first campaign – WindVal III – was conducted from 5 November 2018 until 5 December 2018 and thus still within the commissioning phase of the Aeolus mission. The second campaign – AVATARE (Aeolus Validation Through Airborne Lidars in Europe) – was performed from 6 May 2019 until 6 June 2019. Both campaigns were flown out of the DLR site in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, during the evening hours for probing the ascending orbits. All together, 10 satellite underflights with 19 flight legs covering more than 7500 km of Aeolus swaths were performed and used to validate the early-stage wind data product of Aeolus by means of collocated airborne wind lidar observations for the first time. For both campaign data sets, the statistical comparison of Aeolus horizontal line-of-sight (HLOS) observations and the corresponding wind observations of the reference lidar (2 µm DWL) on board the Falcon aircraft shows enhanced systematic and random errors compared with the bias and precision requirements defined for Aeolus. In particular, the systematic errors are determined to be 2.1 m s -1 (Rayleigh) and 2.3 m s -1 (Mie) for WindVal III and -4.6 m s -1 (Rayleigh) and -0.2 m s -1 (Mie) for AVATARE. The corresponding random errors are determined to be 3.9 m s -1 (Rayleigh) and 2.0 m s -1 (Mie) for WindVal III and 4.3 m s -1 (Rayleigh) and 2.0 m s -1 (Mie) for AVATARE. The Aeolus observations used here were acquired in an altitude range up to 10 km and have mainly a vertical resolution of 1 km (Rayleigh) and 0.5 to 1.0 km (Mie) and a horizontal resolution of 90 km (Rayleigh) and down to 10 km (Mie). Potential reasons for those errors are analyzed and discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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