RT @esa_aeolus: 🎯 Right on track: Aeolus reentry map

🌠 #Aeolus reentered Earth over Antarctica last week

🧭 Pinpointing the exact location where Aeolus reentered our atmosphere is not easy. No one was there to witness it

“… and that’s exactly what we wanted,” says @tparrine

#ByeByeAeolus https://t.co/nf4w2k9VHS

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RT @esa_aeolus: 🚀 Happy launch day #Aeolus

5⃣ Today would've been five years in space, and we almost made it!

🎁 @esa's trailblazing wind mission surpassed its planned life in orbit & exceeded scientific expectations

📽️ We had a spectacular end

🎂 Time for cake

ℹ️👉esa.int/Applications/Observi…

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RT @esa_aeolus: 💡 New #Aeolus paper from @DLR_en 💡

✅ Verification of algorithms based on airborne wind lidar data in support of ESA’s Aeolus mission

🛩️ Data from airborne campaigns over Iceland and Greenland in 2019

🧑‍💻 @Benny07901020 et al. in @OpticaPubsGroup

👉opg.optica.org/ao/fulltext.c…

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RT @esa_aeolus: 📊 NEW #Aeolus paper 📊

🇨🇦 Scale-dependent impact of Aeolus winds on @environmentca's global forecast system

📈 Improvements & error reductions over tropics, extra-tropics & Arctic

🌬️ "Aeolus winds provide estimates of the wind state that are valuable and complementary to that provided from current operational winds"

🔗rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.co…

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RT @esa_aeolus: 🙋 Who's excited for EarthCARE?!

🚨 Its atmospheric lidar will provide cloud-top information, profiles of thin clouds & aerosols

🛰️ On various campaigns over the years, #Aeolus scientists put in the groundwork to aid future CalVal for EarthCARE

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RT @esa_aeolus: 📊 #Aeolus paper 📊

✅ Consistent bias corrections enhance the impact of Aeolus Level-2B Rayleigh winds on @NOAA global forecast skill

👌 The @ESA-disseminated wind product (based on @ECMWF corrections) shows a significant positive impact

👉rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.co…

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RT @esa_aeolus: 🌋 #Aeolus preprint 🌋

🌬️ "Tropospheric sulfate from the Cumbre Vieja volcano at Las Palmas transported towards Cabo Verde"

📊 Lidar measurements taken by @TROPOS_eu during the Joint Aeolus Tropical Atlantic Campaign

📽️ Video: caeuje, Pixabay

👉egusphere.copernicus.org/pre…

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RT @esa_aeolus: 🦠 Aeolus spots ocean colour

🌈 A new paper looks at the use of #Aeolus lidar measurements to study ocean colour, things like:
🟢 Chlorophyll concentration
⚫️ Dissolved organic carbon
🪨 Total suspended matter

👉https://t.co/oO4g8Jto5F https://t.co/urNOGNVTe8

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RT @esa_earthcare: Why should we care about #EarthCARE? 🤔

EarthCARE will improve #weather forecasts!

#Clouds are an integral feature of the weather. There would not be much rain without a hefty nimbus cloud or two around... ☁️🌩️⛈️☔️

Whilst EarthCARE was in preparation, despite it being beyond the mission’s initial scope, forecasters @ECMWF were already investigating whether the satellite’s novel cloud data might contribute to weather prediction.

To do that, they had to check whether information such as radar and lidar data could be added to their global weather models.

Using data from past missions, such as NASA’s CloudSat and the NASA/CNES CALIPSO satellite, they already started seeing improvements in prediction of temperature, wind, and precipitation.

Then #Aeolus came along, carrying a very similar lidar instrument to EarthCARE’s. @esa_aeolus's wind data hugely boosted weather forecasts, and scientists have already been using its data to prepare the way for EarthCARE.

With all the novel cloud data about to be revealed, it will be an exciting few years for weather forecasters.

👉https://t.co/7lJ1Y36Iu9

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RT @esa_earthcare: Want another reason to be excited about #EarthCARE?

EarthCARE adds value to other missions! 🫶💸

In addition to its novel data, EarthCARE will continue the invaluable #climate records generated by satellites that have finished their missions, extending them in anticipation of future spaceborne instruments.

As an example, whilst EarthCARE has been in development, scientists from @KNMI have been applying its lidar algorithms to @esa_aeolus and CALIPSO data to improve existing data products and prepare for future observations.

Data from EarthCARE are foreseen to extend the record of missions such as #Aeolus, CALIPSO, CloudSat, GPM, CERES and GERB, and prepare the path for missions such as Aeolus-2, AOS and Libera that are due to launch in the coming decade.

👉https://t.co/7lJ1Y36Iu9

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RT @esa_aeolus: Assimilation of horizontal line-of-sight winds in the @ncmrwfmoes Global Forecast System.

A new paper looks at #Aeolus impact!

✅ Significant improvement over the southern hemisphere and tropics
🌀 Two cyclones also investigated
⬇️ Reduction in direct positional error for both
👍 Improvement in 6-hourly analysis of minimum sea level pressure and maximum 10 m wind speed

👉https://t.co/l8zKm6dMuA

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