Abstract

Meso-scale meteorology received an increased interest in the past decade and prompts new studies supported by both experimental and modeling works. In the frame of this effort the scientific communities in France and Germany proposed to developed the WIND project (1) to fly an airborne Doppler lidar. Then, considering the deployment of a wind Doppler lidar in space around 2005, the objectives for WIND are twofold : to make a significant contribution to mesoscale meteorology, and act as a precursor for space borne projects as currently foreseen in Europe. The WIND project is developed in cooperation by CNRS and CNES in France and DLR-Munich in Germany. At the present. WIND is in phase B/C and technical flight are expected by the end of 96. During phase A an end-to-end instrumental model (2) has been developed to evaluate the performance and work out the trade-off among the various sub-systems.

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