Passive A-Band Wind Sounder (PAWS) for Measuring Tropospheric Wind Velocity

Author

Pierce, Robert ; Roark, Shane ; Grund, Christian ; Slaymaker, Philip ; Huang, Pei ; Kaptchen, Paul

Author_Institution

Ball Aerosp. & Technol. Corp., Boulder, CO

Volume

3

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 July 2008

Abstract

The Passive A-Band Wind Sounder (PAWS) project is funded through NASA´s Instrument Incubator Program (IIP). The objective of PAWS is to demonstrate an instrument concept for measuring wind speed profiles in the troposphere using Doppler shifts in selected oxygen absorption lines. PAWS is a daytime-only approach, but has the potential to provide better wind data than is currently available with significantly lower cost, risk, and platform requirements than lidar. This paper will provide an overview of the PAWS approach and progress on the instrument development.

Keywords

Doppler shift; meteorological instruments; troposphere; wind; Doppler shifts; NASA Instrument Incubator Program; PAWS project; Passive A-Band Wind Sounder; daytime-only approach; instrument development progress; oxygen absorption lines; tropospheric wind velocity measurement; wind speed determination; Atmospheric measurements; Extraterrestrial measurements; Instruments; Plasma welding; Pollution measurement; Sea measurements; Terrestrial atmosphere; Velocity measurement; Weather forecasting; Wind speed; A-band; Doppler; Wind; oxygen; troposphere;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2807-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2808-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779357

Filename

4779357