Feasibility Study for Future Space-Borne Coherent Doppler Wind Lidar, Part 3: Impact Assessment Using Sensitivity Observing System Simulation Experiments

This study evaluated the impact of a future space-borne Doppler wind lidar (DWL) on a super-low-altitude orbit by using an observing system simulation experiment (OSSE) based on a sensitivity observing system experiment (SOSE) approach. Realistic atmospheric data, including wind and temperature, was provided as “pseudo-truth” (PT) to simulate DWL observations. Hourly aerosols and clouds that are consistent with PT winds were also created for the simulation. A full-scale lidar simulator, which is described in detail in the companion paper, simulated realistic line-of-sight wind measurements and observation quality information, such as signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) Corresponding author: Kozo Okamoto, Meteorological Research Institute of Japan Meteorological Agency, 1-1 Nagamine, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0052, Japan E-mail: kokamoto@mri-jma.go.jp J-stage Advance Published Date: 5 February 2018 ©The Author(s) 2018. This is an open access article published by the Meteorological Society of Japan under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license (http://creativecommons.org/license/by/4.0). Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Vol. 96, No. 2 180

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