Airborne Lidar Observations of Wind , Water Vapor , and Aerosol Profiles During The 1

Airborne Lidar Observations of Wind, Water Vapor, and Aerosol Profiles During The 1 NASA Aeolus Cal/Val Test Flight Campaign 2 3 Kristopher M. Bedka1, Amin R. Nehrir1, Michael Kavaya1, Rory Barton-Grimley1, Mark 4 Beaubien6, Brian Carroll5, James Collins2, John Cooney5, G. David Emmitt3, Steven Greco3, 5 Susan Kooi2, Tsengdar Lee4, Zhaoyan Liu1, Sharon Rodier2, Gail Skofronick-Jackson4 6 7 1NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 8 2Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA 9 3Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA 10 4NASA Headquarters, Washington D.C. 11 5NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, Universities Space Research Association at NASA Langley Research 12 Center, Hampton, VA 13 6Yankee Environmental Systems, Inc., Turners Falls, MA 14 15 Correspondence to: Kristopher M. Bedka (kristopher.m.bedka@nasa.gov) 16 17 ABSTRACT 18 Lidars are uniquely capable of collecting high precision and high spatio-temporal resolution observations that have 19