LWG Meeting Presentations

March 2017

Wind Conference Talks

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Recent research and development for 2-micron coherent Doppler Wind Lidar

S. Ishiia, A. Sato b, a, M. Aoki a, K. Akahanea, S. Naganoa, P. Barona, K. Mizutania, S. Ochiaia, and M. Kubotaa

Observing system simulation experiment (OSSE) for future space-based Doppler wind lidar in Japan

Kozo Okamoto,T. Ishibashi, S. Ishii, P. Baron, K. Gamo, T. Tanaka, T. Kubota

Aeolus - ESA's Wind Lidar Mission: Technical Status & Latest Results

Anders Elfving

ATHENA-OAWL, the Green OAWL (GrOAWL) Airborne Demonstrator

S. Tucker and C. Weimer – Ball Aerospace, R. M. Hardesty & S. Baidar – NOAA/CIRES/CU, F. Hovis – Fibertek, Inc.

ATHENA/OAWL: Measuring Winds from the International Space Station

Mike Hardesty CIRES/NOAA, Carl Weimer and Sara Tucker Ball Aerospace

NOAA's Quantitative Observing System Assessment Program (QOSAP)

Robert Atlas Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research

Atmospheric energy harvesting for autonomous in-flight path planning of a UAV instrumented with Doppler Wind Lidar.

S.A. Wood, G. D. Emmitt, S. Greco, and C. O’Handley (Subcontractors: Earthly Dynamics and Aurora)

Overview of DAWN Characterization and Performance Improvement Effortat Beyond Photonics

Sammy Henderson

NASA Earth Science Update

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

DAWN Contributions to Investigating Arctic Atmospheric Dynamics and Numerical Model Validation

S. Greco, G.D. Emmitt, A.K. DuVivier, and M. Kavaya, Simpson Weather AssociatesUniversity of Colorado - CIRES NASA LaRC

Airborne Convective Processes Experiment (CPEX) and DAWN Participation

Ramesh Kakar

Compact Midwave Imaging System (CMIS)for Cloud Motion Vectors (CMVs)

Michael Kelly

MARS ATMOSPHERIC LIDAR

Farzin Amzajerdian, George E. Busch, Nickolas Heavens, Michelle Munk, Glenn Hines, Diego Pierrottet, Devin Pugh-Thomas, Keith Murray

Nested OAWLS: A Path to Full Atmospheric Doppler Lidar Wind Profiling

S. Tucker and C. Weimer – Ball Aerospace, R. M. Hardesty & S. Baidar – NOAA/CIRES/CU

NOAA's airborne DWL on Hurricane research aircraft: 2015 -2017

G. D. Emmitt, C. O’Handley, J. Zhang, L. Bucci and R. Atlas

Plans for using DAWN in multi-scale interaction study in the tropics (CPEX 2017)

G. D. Emmitt, S. Greco, M. Kavaya and U. Singh

SWIFT Frequency-Tunable CW Single Frequency 2-micron Laser

Sammy W. Henderson, Charley Hale, Beyond Photonics LLC

A 10-Year Global Aerosol Climatology Derived from CALIPSO

Jason Tackett, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. CALIPSO Lidar Science Working Group

Spaceflight 1.94um Thulium Fiber Laser Development

Fibertek, Inc.

Results from the ATHENA-OAWL Venture Tech Flights

Sunil Baidar, S. Tucker, M. Beaubien, R. M. Hardesty

Coherent Wind Lidar Activities and Vision at NASA Langley Research Center

Upendra N. Singh NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia 23681 Langley Research Center (M. Kavaya, J. Yu, J. Marketon, Z. Liu) Beyond Photonics (S. Henderson, C. Hale) Fibertek (F. Hovis) Simpson Weather Associates (D. Emmitt, S. Greco)

Height Assignment of Atmospheric Motion Vectors from Stereo and IRTechniques

Dong L. Wu, Kevin Mueller, David Liu, Jie Gong, and Michael Kelly