GroundWinds Around the World New Hampshire Hawaii GroundWinds Data

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	Program Manager Charles Richey charlesrichey@michiganaerospace.com (734) 975-8777 ext 112
Program Sponsors / Affiliates National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) University of New Hampshire

The GroundWinds Project is a NOAA funded initiative to demonstrate direct detection fringe imaging Doppler wind LIDAR technology. The program seeks to demonstrate this technology for application to future space based global tropospheric wind sounding. The GroundWinds program has successfully demonstrated two ground based instruments. GroundWinds New Hampshire, located at the base of Mount Washington is a 532nm LIDAR system that was the first fringe imaging instrument to be developed in the GroundWinds program. The GroundWinds Hawaii instrument, located near the summit of Mauna Loa at the NOAA observatory, is the second instrument installation and operates at 355nm. Both of the GroundWinds systems detect Doppler shifts in the atmosphere from the ground to 20 km in altitude above the site.

There is an agreement among the weather community that global winds are the most important missing data product.

Global Winds

GroundWinds demonstrates the advanced technology that is capable of measuring Global Winds.

GroundWinds Overview

The GroundWinds project is a technologically advanced instrument which is distiguished by its ability to measure atmospheric wind profiles utilizing both the molecular and aerosol components of the scattered return signal. This allows for landmark measurements of both the tropospheric and lower stratospheric winds.

For more information, take a look at the detailed overview of the GroundWinds instrument