LWG Meeting Presentations

April 2015

Powerpoint Presentations:


Tuesday Morning

Aeolus – ESA’s Wind Lidar Mission: Objectives, Design & Status

Anne Grete Straume on behalf of Anders Elfving European Space Agency/ESTEC


NOAA Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project

Dr. Robert Atlas/Director, NOAA/Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory


NASA Science Overview

Ramesh Kakar,NASA Program Scientist for Wind Lidar (also, Aqua, TRMM, GPM and CYGNSS)


The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) A New Earth Science Capability for ISS

Matthew McGill, Goddard Space Flight Center, Principal Investigator, John Yorks, Goddard Space Flight Center, Science Lead & Algorithms, Charles Trepte, Langley Research Center, Algorithm Support, Hal Maring, NASA HQ, Program Scientist


NASA Earth Science Technology Update

George J. Komar Associate Director/Program Manager, Earth Science Technology Office


Working Group on Space-based Lidar Winds Spring, 2015 Meeting


Laser Technology Investments by ESTO

Parminder Ghuman, Earth Science Technology Office


Recent Progress on the ICESat-2 & High Efficiency UV Demonstrator Lasers

Fibertek, Inc.


WindTracer® BAO Tower Experiment Results

Keith Barr & Phil Gatt


Development of a Space-qualifiable, Conductively-cooled 2-micron Coherent Lidar Transmitter for Global Wind Measurements

Upendra N. Singh, Mulugeta Petros, Jirong Yu, and Michael J. Kavaya, NASA Langley Research Center, Timothy Shuman and Floyd Hovis, Fibertek, Inc, Herndon, Virginia, USA


Progress on whole atmosphere lidar

John SmithResearch Associate, CIRES


Lidar Wind Measurements in the Mesosphere and Thermosphere

Xinzhao Chu, John Smith, Weichun Fong, Xian Lu, and Wentao Huang


Tuesday Afternoon

Stereoscopic Cloud Imaging for Future 3-D Wind Constellation

Dong L. Wu


Aeolus Science and CAL/VAL Workshop

A.G. Straume, D. Schuettemeyer, T. Kanitz, F. de Bruin, A. Dehn, S. Casadio, Aeolus Mission Advisory Group


The ATHENA-OAWL Doppler Wind Lidar Mission NASA Review – Comments and Request for Community Input

Carl Weimer and Sara Tucker, Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation


A US Effort for ADM/Aeolus Calibration and Validation

M. Hardesty, S. Boukabara, A. Brewer, J. Dunion, D. Emmitt, R. Ferrare, I. Genkova, B. Gentry, G. Gimmestad, J. Hair, R. Hoffman, C. Hostetler, M. Kavaya, M. McGill, Z. Pu, S. Tucker, C. Velden, J. Yoe


Preparing for ADM cal/val using DAWN and TWiLiTE in two arctic campaigns

G. D. Emmitt and S. Greco, Simpson Weather Associates, M. J. Kavaya, G. Koch and U. Singh, NASA LaRC, B. Gentry,NASA GSFC


Driftsondes and Dropsondes for Wind Measurements

Holger Vömel, Terry Hock NCAR EOL


The NOAA Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program: High-Impact Weather Activities

Gary A. Wick and Robbie E. Hood NOAA UAS Program


Wednesday

Advances in C-17 wing tip vortex investigations using the TODWL

G. D. Emmitt and C. O’Handley, Simpson Weather Associates, With material from Draper Laboratories


Developing the configuration trade space for space-based DWLs: vertical and horizontal coverage

G. D. Emmitt, S. A. Wood and S. Greco, Simpson Weather Associates, S. Majumdar (U Miami) and R. Atlas (NOAA/AOML)


Update on the Joint Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) Testbed and recent OSSEs

Robert Atlas


Lidar Uncertainty Measurement Experiment (LUMEX)

A. Choukulkar, W.A. Brewer, R.M. Banta, M. Hardesty, Y. Pichugina, Christoph Senff, S. Sandberg, A. Weickmann, G. Antoszewski, B. Carroll, R. Delgado, J. K. Lundquist, M. E. Rhodes, B. Kosovic, A. Muschinski, K. Barr, D. Wolfe


Potential OSSE for Space-based Lidar winds

Michiko Masutani


PolarWinds Campaign I results and plans for Campaign II

G. D. Emmitt, S. Greco and K. Godwin Simpson Weather Associates


The impact of surface wind data and 3-D Doppler lidar wind profiles on high-impact weather forecasting: Data assimilation and OSSE studies

Zhaoxia Pu


Science Objectives for the ATHENA-OAWL Venture Tech Airborne Mission

M. Hardesty, CIRES University of Colorado/NOAA, S. Tucker and C. Weimer, Ball Aerospace Corporation, D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates


Airborne OAWL IIP-­07: Updates on the 2011 flight results and lessons learned

Sara C. Tucker Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp