The atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) height defines the volume of air within which heat,
moisture and pollutants released at the Earth's surface are rapidly diluted. Despite the …

The three-dimensional global wind field is the most important remaining measurement
needed to accurately assess the dynamics of the atmosphere. Wind information in the …

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 …

Marine aerosol affects the global energy budget and regional weather. The production of
marine aerosol is primarily driven by wind at the sea–air interface. Previous studies have …

Shortly after the successful launch of ESA's wind mission Aeolus, carried out by the
European Space Agency, collocated airborne wind lidar observations were performed in …

The global observation of profiles of the atmospheric wind speed is the highest-priority
unmet need for global numerical weather prediction. Satellite Doppler lidar is the most …

Aeolus is the first satellite mission to directly observe wind profile information on a global
scale. After implementing a set of bias corrections, the Aeolus data products went public on …

Recent years have seen the increasing inclusion of per-retrieval prognostic (predictive)
uncertainty estimates within satellite aerosol optical depth (AOD) data sets, providing users …

In September 2020, extremely strong wildfires in the western United States of America (ie,
mainly in California) produced large amounts of smoke, which was lifted into the free …

Abstract Aeolus carries the Atmospheric LAser Doppler INstrument (ALADIN), the first high-
spectral-resolution lidar (HSRL) in space. Although ALADIN is optimized to measure winds …