Aeolus CalVal Dropsonde Profiles

Description

Aeolus-CalVal-Dropsondes_DC8_1 is the Aeolus CalVal Dropsonde Profiles data product. Data was collected using Dropsondes from the Douglas (DC-8) Aircraft. Data collection for this product is complete. NASA conducted an airborne campaign from 17 April to 30 April 2019 to: 1) demonstrate the performance of the Doppler Aerosol WiNd Lidar (DAWN) and High Altitude Lidar Observatory (HALO) instruments across a range of aerosol, cloud, and weather conditions; 2) compare these measurements with the European Space Agency Aeolus mission to gain an initial perspective of Aeolus performance in preparation for a future international Aeolus Cal/Val airborne campaign; and 3) demonstrate how weather processes can be resolved and better understood through simultaneous airborne wind, water vapor (WV), and aerosol profile observations, coupled with numerical model and other remote sensing observations. Five NASA DC-8 aircraft flights, comprising 46 flight hours, were conducted over the Eastern Pacific and Southwest U.S., based out of NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, CA and Kona, HI. Yankee Environmental Systems, Inc High Definition Sounding System (HDSS) eXpendable Digitial Dropsondes (XDD) were used to validate the DAWN and Aeolus wind observations. The LaRC Diode Laser Hygrometer instrument, which was integrated on the DC-8 in preparation for another NASA airborne campaign, provided in-situ WV measurements used during one flight to validate HALO and dropsonde WV profile products.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Earthdata Search for Aeolus-CalVal-Dropsondes_DC8_1 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1918229595-LARC_ASDC
21 How to cite ASDC data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FAirborne%2FAeolus-CalVal-Dropsondes_DC8_1
21 NASA Langley Article: NASA Testing Airborne Lasers to Touch the Wind (April 18, 2019) https://www.nasa.gov/feature/langley/nasa-testing-airborne-lasers-to-touch-the-wind
21 Earth Observatory Overview of the HALO (High Altitude Lidar Observatory) Instrument https://eoportal.org/web/eoportal/airborne-sensors/halo
21 DOI data set landing page for Aeolus-CalVal-Dropsondes_DC8_1 https://doi.org/10.5067/Airborne/Aeolus-CalVal-Dropsondes_DC8_1
21 NASA.gov Article "Going Where the Wind Takes It" (March 18, 2019) https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/langley/going-where-the-wind-takes-it
21 Aeolus Data on the Sub-Orbital Order Tool https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/soot/power-user/AEOLUS/2019
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for Aeolus-CalVal-Dropsondes_DC8_1 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/Aeolus/CalVal-Dropsondes_DC8_1/
21 NASA.gov Article "Illuminating Gases in the Sky: NASA Technology Pinpoints Potent Greenhouse Gases" (April 19, 2019) https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/illuminating-gases-in-the-sky-nasa-technology-pinpoints-potent-greenhouse-gases

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  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-temperature
  • atmospheric-winds
  • earth-science

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