Above: An aircraft-mounted, two-axis scanner for a Doppler lidar to study complex wind patterns found around wildfires in complex terrain or near the coast. Top Image: Team members from left to right: ...

Above: A platform designed to stabilize a large Doppler lidar as it operates inside an airplane flying through a hurricane. You wouldn’t dream of flying through a hurricane, would you? Yet NOAA has ...

Aeolus is the name of the god of wind, borrowed from Greek mythology and given to a satellite that has been orbiting Earth since 2018 with the Atmospheric Laser Doppler Instrument (ALADIN) wind lidar ...