{"id":609444,"date":"2019-04-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=609444"},"modified":"2019-04-20T23:03:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T03:03:12","slug":"aeolus-well-on-the-way-to-improving-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=609444","title":{"rendered":"Aeolus well on the way to improving forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2019\/04\/strong_wind_over_western_europe\/19336308-1-eng-GB\/Strong_wind_over_western_Europe_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAssessing the accuracy of data being returned by completely new technology in space is a challenging task. But this is exactly what engineers and scientists have been dedicating their time to over the last months so that measurements of the world\u2019s winds being gathered by Aeolus can be fed confidently into weather forecast models.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Observing_the_Earth\/Aeolus\/Aeolus_well_on_the_way_to_improving_forecasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" >Aeolus well on the way to improving forecasts<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Strong_wind_over_western_Europe_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\"><br \/>\nSource: ESA Observing Earth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assessing the accuracy of data being returned by completely new technology in space is a challenging task. But this is exactly what engineers and scientists have been dedicating their time&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":609445,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609446,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609444\/revisions\/609446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/609445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}