====== Project members ======

^ Name    ^ Institution    ^ Link    ^
| Markus Rapp (PI)    | LMU-MIM    | [[https://www.dlr.de/pa/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-2357/3477_read-27058/ | Homepage]]    |
| Martin Weissmann   | LMU-MIM    | [[https://www.meteorologie.lmu.de/DokuWiki/doku.php?id=mitarbeiter_webseiten:weissmann_en | Homepage]]    |
| Alexander Geiß    | LMU-MIM    |    |
| Anne Martin    | LMU-MIM    |    |
| Volker Freudenthaler    | LMU-MIM    | [[https://www.meteo.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~st212fre/ | Homepage]]    |
| Ulla Wandinger    | TROPOS    | [[https://www.tropos.de/institut/ueber-uns/mitarbeitende/ulla-wandinger/ | Homepage]]    |
| Holger Baars    | TROPOS    | [[https://www.tropos.de/institut/ueber-uns/mitarbeitende/holger-baars/ | Homepage]]    |
| Albert Ansmann    | TROPOS    | [[https://www.tropos.de/institut/ueber-uns/mitarbeitende/albert-ansmann/ | Homepage]]    |
| Joahnnes Bühl    | TROPOS    | [[https://www.tropos.de/institut/ueber-uns/mitarbeitende/johannes-buehl/ | Homepage]]    |
| Ronny Engelmann    | TROPOS    | [[https://www.tropos.de/institut/ueber-uns/mitarbeitende/ronny-engelmann/ | Homepage]]    |
| Volker Lehmann    | DWD    | |
| Alexander Cress    | DWD    | |
^ Associated  ^^^
| Oliver Reitebuch  | DLR  | [[https://www.dlr.de/pa/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-2357/3477_read-32451/ | Homepage]]  |

====== Project goals ======
Validation and calibration of Aeolus products
  * **L1B**
  * **L2A** - Aerosol product: particle backscatter coefficient, particle extinction coefficient and lidar ratio
  * **L2B** - Wind product: horizontal line of sight (HLOS) measurements, scene classification (clouds, aerosol, clear atmosphere) for improving wind observations \\

Determination of systematic and random errors as well as estimating representativeness errors of the L2B and L2A product using weather models and independent observations of:   
  * Radiosondes
  * Wind and aerosol lidar
  * Radar-windprofiler
  * Sun photometer