Passive A-Band Wind Sounder (PAWS) for Measuring Tropospheric Wind Velocity
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Pierce, Robert; Roark, Shane; Grund, Christian; Slaymaker, Philip; Huang, Pei; Kaptchen, Paul
- Source
- IGARSS 2008 - 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International. 3:III - 358-III - 361 Jul, 2008
- Subject
- Geoscience
Signal Processing and Analysis
Plasma welding
Velocity measurement
Wind speed
Pollution measurement
Instruments
Sea measurements
Atmospheric measurements
Extraterrestrial measurements
Weather forecasting
Terrestrial atmosphere
Wind
troposphere
Doppler
oxygen
A-band
- Language
- ISSN
- 2153-6996
2153-7003
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.