Imaging · collection · 2026
Aerosol Wind Profiler (AWP) WHyMSIE
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/whymsie/awp/data101
The Aerosol Wind Profiler (AWP) dataset consists of high spatial and vertical resolution wind profiles.
Description
The observations were taken during the joint Westcoast and Heartland Hyperspectral Microwave Sensor Intensive Experiment (WHyMSIE) and Active Passive PBL Profiling Experiment (APEX) field campaigns aboard the G-III aircraft. WHyMSIE aimed to capture a wide variety of thermodynamic, moisture, and planetary boundary layer regimes across a variety of surface types.
Comparing hyperspectral microwave retrievals from CoSMIR-H with in situ temperature and humidity information will allow for scientific advancement of remote-sensing techniques into the hyperspectral microwave era and improved understanding of the planetary boundary layer at different measurement scales. AWP was designed as a new airborne Doppler Wind Lidar (DWL) instrument, using NASA’s 2-micron Wind-Space Pathfinder lidar transceiver.
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AWP turned this into an airborne wind lidar to provide full three-dimensional wind vector retrievals (Bedka et al. 2024). AWP was designed due to a lack of global wind measurements above Earth’s surface. Conventional 3-D wind profile observations from commercial aircraft, weather radars, microwave profilers, and radiosondes are sparse in space and time (Baker et al. 2014).
The 2017 Decadal Survey (National Academies, 2018) notes that existing space-based wind measurements do not provide the detail and precision to resolve key processes, especially in the vertical dimension, and states a need for new orbital wind profilers in the 2017-2027 decadal timeframe. The instrument is designed to provide high resolution retrievals to fill in the gaps for upper air wind observations (Hatfield 2025).
The AWP dataset files are available from September 20, 2024 through November 15, 2024. The dataset consists of data files in netCDF format. Browse images of the data are available in PNG format.
Links
Get the data
- Resource doi.org/10.1109/igarss53475.2024.10641560 ↗
The West-Coast Hyperspectral Microwave Sensor Intensive Experiment (WHYMSIE)
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF ghrc.earthdata.nasa.gov/browseui ↗
The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Earthdata Data Use and Citation Guidance earthdata.nasa.gov/engage/open-data-services-software-policies/data-use-guidance ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C4025868504-GHRC_DAAC.iso19115 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C4025868504-GHRC_DAAC ↗
Earthdata Search allows users to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data.
download · from NASA CMR
Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/aerosol-wind-profiler-awp-whymsie ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
- DOI doi.org/10.5067/whymsie/awp/data101 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 3
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C4025868504-GHRC_DAAC.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=c0bb3bb4-eba5-402a-af26-fd2b908d8… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C4025868504-GHRC_DAAC.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Gulfstream III · Wind Profiles
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Atmospheric sciences 72% · Image 65%
Provenance · 2 source records, 18 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C4025868504-GHRC_DAAC | 8 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | c0bb3bb4-eba5-402a-af26-fd2b908d8cd3 | 5 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:3701 | enrichment · NASA CMR | taxonomy-embedding@1.0.0 | title+keywords+description (72%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-winds/wind-profiles | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:image | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:g-iii | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| updated_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |