Reconstruction of the Horizontal Wind Field Inside Weather Systems from the Sparse Sampling Envisaged for the Wind Velocity Radar Nephoscope (WIVERN) Mission

WIVERN, short for WInd VElocity Radar Nephoscope ( www.wivern.polito.it , [1] , [2] ), has been recently proposed in the ESA Earth Explorer 11 call with the specific goal of filling the observational gap of global wind observations inside storms and precipitating systems [3] . WIVERN, currently in Phase A, is one of the two remaining candidate missions with the final selection scheduled for July 2025.