Abstract

The desirability of global direct wind measurements is without debate. The required accuracy and spatial/temporal resolution are, however, still to be established through model sensitivity evaluations and simulation studies. Depending upon the interests of the scientists involved, the simulations are likely to emphasize particular scales of atmospheric phenomena. This presentation will focus upon the effects of meso β (<100 km) and convective (≈1 km) scale features on the retrieval of wind estimates from a conically scanning lidar in a low earth orbit (LEO).