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BLOC Site - Radar Wind Profiler / Derived Data Reformatted
Abstract
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.
- Authors:
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- CIRES/NOAA
- NOAA
- Publication Date:
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wind and Water Technologies Office (EE-4W)
- Subject:
- 17 WIND ENERGY
- OSTI Identifier:
- 2569230
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.21947/2569230
Citation Formats
Bianco, Laura, Adler, Bianca, Costa, Dave, Osborn, Jackson, and Counts, Kevin. BLOC Site - Radar Wind Profiler / Derived Data Reformatted. United States: N. p., 2025.
Web. doi:10.21947/2569230.
Bianco, Laura, Adler, Bianca, Costa, Dave, Osborn, Jackson, & Counts, Kevin. BLOC Site - Radar Wind Profiler / Derived Data Reformatted. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.21947/2569230
Bianco, Laura, Adler, Bianca, Costa, Dave, Osborn, Jackson, and Counts, Kevin. 2025.
"BLOC Site - Radar Wind Profiler / Derived Data Reformatted". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.21947/2569230. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2569230. Pub date:Sun Nov 23 23:00:00 EST 2025
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abstractNote = {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.},
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year = {Sun Nov 23 23:00:00 EST 2025},
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