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Wind lidar in the DLR Falcon

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Wind lidar in the DLR Falcon

DLR Project Manager, Oliver Reitebuch, next to the new wind lidar device in the Falcon.

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DLR Project Manager, Oliver Reitebuch, next to the new wind lidar device in the Falcon.

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For anyone who watches TV weather reports, the satellite images of cloud formations and winds that play such a crucial role in our weather will be a familiar sight. No direct information about winds has been collected until now, but that is set to change with the advent of Aeolus.
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For accurate weather forecasts and improved climate models, it is crucial to capture data about the winds over the North Atlantic as precisely as possible. Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have developed a prototype of a wind lidar (light detection and ranging) that is scheduled for deployment on a new European Space Agency (ESA) weather satellite in late 2016.
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