Marine Bonazzola

Relationships between deep convective clouds, cirrus clouds, and the tropical easterly jet over the Indian region observed with Aeolus spaceborne Doppler wind lidar

Abstract. Direct wind observations used to be rare over the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. Since the launch of ESA's Aeolus Doppler Wind Lidar, profiles of horizontal wind are acquired every day and are perfectly co-located with profiles of thin and opaque clouds. In this stu...