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Radar - ESRL Wind Profiler with RASS, Wasco Airport - Raw Data
Abstract
**Winds** 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 typically are sampled and averaged hourly and usually have 6-m and/or 100-m vertical resolutions up to 4 km for the 915 MHz and 8 km for the 449 MHz systems. **Temperature** To measure atmospheric temperature, a radio acoustic sound system (RASS) is used in conjunction with the wind profile. These data typically are sampled and averaged for five minutes each hour and have a 60-m vertical resolution up to 1.5 km for the 915 MHz and 60-m up to 3.5k m for the 449 MHz.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- DOE Contract Number:
- 67025F
- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Atmosphere to Electrons (A2e) Data Archive and Portal
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wind and Water Technologies Office (EE-4W)
- Subject:
- 17 Wind Energy
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1328936
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.21947/1328936
Citation Formats
Wilczak, Jim, and King, Clark. Radar - ESRL Wind Profiler with RASS, Wasco Airport - Raw Data. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.21947/1328936.
Wilczak, Jim, & King, Clark. Radar - ESRL Wind Profiler with RASS, Wasco Airport - Raw Data. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.21947/1328936
Wilczak, Jim, and King, Clark. 2021.
"Radar - ESRL Wind Profiler with RASS, Wasco Airport - Raw Data". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.21947/1328936. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1328936. Pub date:Thu May 20 00:00:00 EDT 2021
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title = {Radar - ESRL Wind Profiler with RASS, Wasco Airport - Raw Data},
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abstractNote = {**Winds** 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 typically are sampled and averaged hourly and usually have 6-m and/or 100-m vertical resolutions up to 4 km for the 915 MHz and 8 km for the 449 MHz systems. **Temperature** To measure atmospheric temperature, a radio acoustic sound system (RASS) is used in conjunction with the wind profile. These data typically are sampled and averaged for five minutes each hour and have a 60-m vertical resolution up to 1.5 km for the 915 MHz and 60-m up to 3.5k m for the 449 MHz.},
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