Abstract

Optical remote sensing techniques for the space-based determination of wind fields over the poorly monitored oceans and southern hemisphere land areas hold great promise for lengthening forecast times from numerical weather prediction models. Real-time wind sheer profiles can potentially be used to enhance aircraft and space-launch operations safety. Doppler lidar has been identified¹ as a front runner for near term space deployment as a tropospheric/stratospheric wind sensor.

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