Articles | Volume 26, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-443-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-443-2026
Research article
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08 Jan 2026
Research article |  | 08 Jan 2026

Demonstrating Aeolus capability to observe wind-cloud interactions

Zacharie Titus, Marine Bonazzola, Hélène Chepfer, Artem G. Feofilov, Marie-Laure Roussel, Benjamin Witschas, and Sophie Bastin

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Data/* Zacharie Titus https://doi.org/10.25326/746

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Codes/* Zacharie Titus https://doi.org/10.25326/746

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Aeolus spaceborne Doppler Wind Lidar observes perfectly co-located vertical profiles of clouds and vertical profiles of horizontal wind that can be used to study cloud-wind interactions. At regional scale, we show that over the Indian Ocean, high cloud fractions increase when the Tropical Easterly Jet is active. At a smaller scale, we observe for the first time from space differences in the wind profiles within the cloud and its surrounding clear sky, that can be imputed to convective motions.
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