LWG Meeting Presentations

May 2014

Powerpoint Presentations:
Status of the TWiLiTE-GH Direct Detection Doppler Lidar
Bruce Gentry, Huailin Chen, Jaime Cervantes, Steve Mitchell, Roman Machan, Daniel Reed

The ATHENA-OAWL Science Investigation
Mike Hardesty, Lars Peter Riishojgaard, Wayman Baker, Robert Atlas, Nancy Baker, Andrew Collard, Arlindo da Silva, Dave Emmitt, Mary Forsythe, Ron Gelaro, Yongxiang Hu, Shoba Kondragunta, Rolf Langland, Frank Marks, Oreste Reale, Oliver Reitebuch, Sara Tucker and Carl Weimer

Observing System Simulation Experiments to Evaluate the Potential Impact of Remotely Sensed Data on Hurricane Prediction
R. Atlas, T. Vukievic, L.Bucci, B. Annane, A. Aksoy,

An Improved Ensemble Transform Targeting Technique for Future Lidar Observations
Y. F. Xie, Y. Zhang, H. Wang, and Z. Toth

DWTS - The Doppler Wind and Temperature Sounder Quantifying the Neutral Drivers of Weather and Space Weather
Dave Fritts, Larry Gordley

Frequency-agile 2-µm Semiconductor Lasers for Lidar Applications
Bob Menzies, Mahmood Bagheri, Siamak Forouhar, Gary Spiers

NASA Earth Science Update - Presented to: Doppler Wind Lidar Working Group
George J. Komar

Feasibility Study for Super Low Altitude Satellite borne Doppler Lidar (S-LIDAR)
S. Ishii, K. Okamoto, Y. Satoh, D. Sakaizawa, A. Sato, P. Baron, T. Ishibashi, T. Tanaka, K. Mizutani, M. Yasui, S. Ochiai, T. Kubota, S. Yamawaka, M. Satoh, R. Oki, and T. Iwasaki

NESDIS Update
John Pereira

Advances on 2-micron Coherent Doppler Wind Lidar
Upendra N. Singh, Jirong Yu, Michael J. Kavaya, Mulugeta Petros and Grady J. Koch, Timothy Shuman and Floyd Hovis

Estimating offshore wind energy potential
Yelena Pichugina, Robert Banta, Alan Brewer, and Mike Hardesty

Wind Tracer
Michael Dehring

ATHENA-OAWL: Instrument overview
Sara Tucker, Carl Weimer

Current Wind Lidar Activities at Ball Aerospace
Sara Tucker, Tom Delker, Carl Weimer

CALIPSO and ATHENA-OAWL Performance Comparisons
Sara C Tucker

NASA Science Update
Ramesh Kakar

ADM-Aeolus - getting ready for CAL/VAL and the scientific exploitation
A.G. Straume, D. Schuettemeyer, F. de Bruin, T. Kanitz, A. Elfving, F. Buscaglione, A. Dehn, S. Casadio,
W. Lengert

ADM-Aeolus - getting ready for launch
A.G. Straume, D. Schuettemeyer, F. de Bruin, T. Kanitz, A. Elfving, F. Buscaglione, A. Dehn,
S. Casadio, W. Lengert

Airborne DWL investigations of wing tip vortices and their dissipation
G. D. Emmitt, K. Godwin and C. O'Handley

Useful aerosol returns from the mid and upper troposphere with OAWL (532)
G. D. Emmitt, S. A. Wood and S. Greco

Recent Progress on Lasers for Space-Based Wind, Aerosol, and Altimetry Lidar Systems
Floyd Hovis

Mountain waves and energy harvesting for UAVs using a DWL
G. D. Emmitt, K. Godwin and S. Greco

Marine boundary layer organized structures and their potential impact on fluxes
G. D. Emmitt, R. Foster