Measuring the Atmospheric Wind Profile (3D Winds)
Channel: NOAASatellites
Date: 2022-05-17

NOAA's Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) Community Day was held on May 11, 2022 for Measuring Three-Dimensional (3D) Atmospheric Wind Profiles. 

The Office of System Architecture and Advanced Planning (OSAAP) presented their interest in exploring technologies that allow for the measurement of atmospheric wind profiles (3D winds) from space. 3D winds are defined as measurements of the horizontal wind vector distributed throughout the vertical and horizontal extent of the atmosphere. This measurement is considered a major gap in NOAA’s space-based observing system and is deemed to have a great potential to improve the performance of several NOAA environmental prediction systems, including global Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP). These technologies could include passive and/or active based observing systems on a variety of platforms and constellations.