Intercomparison of Laser Doppler Wind Measurements with Other Methods and a Forecast Model

Abstract

The wind field over sea can be determined with an ERS-satellite by synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with an accuracy of about and using the ESA CMOD4 algorithm. Wind profiles were measured by the airborne Doppler lidar ADOLAR. A first comparison in a few levels (surface up to 1200 m above sea) was performed. During an experiment near the island of Rugen a synophic SAR/ADOLAR dataset was acquired. An analysis of the dataset comparing to ground truth and the DWD analysis was performed.