BLOC Site - Radar Wind Profiler / Derived Data Reformatted

Dataset · Sun Nov 23 23:00:00 EST 2025

DOI:https://doi.org/10.21947/2569230· OSTI ID:2569230

Bianco, Laura ^[1]; Adler, Bianca ^[1]; Costa, Dave ^[1]; Osborn, Jackson ^[2]; Counts, Kevin ^[2]

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1. CIRES/NOAA
2. NOAA

A radar wind profiler measures the Doppler shift of electromagnetic energy scattered back from atmospheric turbulence and hydrometeors along 3-5 vertical and off-vertical point beam directions. Back-scattered signal strength and radial-component velocities are remotely sensed along all beam directions and combined to derive the horizontal wind field over the radar. These data are typically sampled and averaged hourly or sub-hourly (15-min) and usually have 60-m and/or 100-m vertical resolutions up to 4 km for the 915 MHz system. Both a high-resolution, lower height coverage mode and a low-resolution, higher height coverage mode are used to collect the data.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wind and Water Technologies Office (EE-4W)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 2569230
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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17 WIND ENERGY