Airborne Doppler wind lidar to evaluate cloud and water vapor motion vectors from GIFTS

G. David Emmitt; William L. Smith Sr.

doi:10.1117/12.508421

23 December 2003 Airborne Doppler wind lidar to evaluate cloud and water vapor motion vectors from GIFTS

G. David Emmitt, William L. Smith Sr.

Proceedings Volume 5154, Lidar Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring IV; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.508421
Event: Optical Science and Technology, SPIE's 48th Annual Meeting, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Planning is in progress to launch a much improved temperature and moisture sounder called GIFTS- Geosynchronous Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer. The IPO of the NPOESS had developed an Airborne Sounder Test bed, NAST, to simulate GIFTS data products. The IPO has also developed an airborne Doppler wind lidar (Twin Otter Doppler Wind Lidar - TODWL) to provide accurate wind profiles over the oceans to enable evaluation of the GIFTS and other space-based wind observing systems. This presentation reports on the first in a series of TODWL under flights of the NAST flown on NASA’s ER-2.

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G. David Emmitt and William L. Smith Sr. "Airborne Doppler wind lidar to evaluate cloud and water vapor motion vectors from GIFTS", Proc. SPIE 5154, Lidar Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring IV, (23 December 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.508421

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