Dataset for "Concept of a Dual-Spaceborne Doppler Lidar System for Global Wind Measurement"

To enhance the accuracy and timeliness of global wind observations, we propose a dual-spaceborne Doppler lidar wind measurement system. Two satellite orbits with different inclinations each provide a LOS wind; combining these components at each crossover yields the horizontal wind vector. Thereby, within 12 h the crossovers blanket the globe, yielding a global horizontal wind-vector field. This dataset is associated with the manuscript “Concept of a Dual-Spaceborne Doppler Lidar System for Global Wind Measurement”. The dataset contains the latitude–longitude coordinates of the two satellite ground tracks under different separation angles. A list of file names is provided in “File names.xlsx”. Each .txt file in the folder stores three columns in plain text, separated by spaces:longitude latitude time,where time is the sequential index of the track points (unit-less integer starting from 1). This dataset was computed with the open-source “orbit-v0” orbit-simulation program (https://gitee.com/jun-lin/orbit-v0.git).