Ground-based and air-borne lidar for wake vortex detection and characterisation

Abstract

In the last two years several ground based and airborne wake vortex campaigns have been performed with the DLR coherent Doppler Lidar. The objectives of those cam-paigns were measurements for comparison with the wake vortex prediction and monitoring system WSVBS, the measurement and description of wakes generated by the new Airbus A380 aircraft and a reference aircraft for the ICAO aircraft separa-tion, and the observation of the influence of different aircraft configurations on the vortex life time in the project AWIATOR.