Assessment of virtual towers performed with scanning wind lidars and Ka-band radars during the XPIA experiment
Abstract
During the eXperimental Planetary boundary layer Instrumentation Assessment (XPIA) campaign, which was carried out at the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory (BAO) in spring 2015, multiple-Doppler scanning strategies were carried out with scanning wind lidars and Ka-band radars. Specifically, step–stare measurements were collected simultaneously with three scanning Doppler lidars, while two scanning Ka-band radars carried out simultaneous range height indicator (RHI) scans. The XPIA experiment provided the unique opportunity to compare directly virtual-tower measurements performed simultaneously with Ka-band radars and Doppler wind lidars. Furthermore, multiple-Doppler measurements were assessed against sonic anemometer data acquired from the meteorological tower (met-tower) present at the BAO site and a lidar wind profiler. As a result, this survey shows that – despite the different technologies, measurement volumes and sampling periods used for the lidar and radar measurements – a very good accuracy is achieved for both remote-sensing techniques for probing horizontal wind speed and wind direction with the virtual-tower scanning technique.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1349153
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1352733
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/JA-5000-68385
Journal ID: ISSN 1867-8548
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AFA-5-52027-01 under AC36-08GO28308; AC36-08GO28308
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Online) Journal Volume: 10 Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1867-8548
- Publisher:
- Copernicus Publications, EGU
- Country of Publication:
- Germany
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 17 WIND ENERGY; scanning wind lidars; Ka-band radars; Doppler lidars; XPIA; eXperimental Planetary boundary layer Instrumentation Assessment
Citation Formats
Debnath, Mithu, Iungo, Giacomo Valerio, Brewer, W. Alan, Choukulkar, Aditya, Delgado, Ruben, Gunter, Scott, Lundquist, Julie K., Schroeder, John L., Wilczak, James M., and Wolfe, Daniel. Assessment of virtual towers performed with scanning wind lidars and Ka-band radars during the XPIA experiment. Germany: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.5194/amt-10-1215-2017.
Debnath, Mithu, Iungo, Giacomo Valerio, Brewer, W. Alan, Choukulkar, Aditya, Delgado, Ruben, Gunter, Scott, Lundquist, Julie K., Schroeder, John L., Wilczak, James M., & Wolfe, Daniel. Assessment of virtual towers performed with scanning wind lidars and Ka-band radars during the XPIA experiment. Germany. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-1215-2017
Debnath, Mithu, Iungo, Giacomo Valerio, Brewer, W. Alan, Choukulkar, Aditya, Delgado, Ruben, Gunter, Scott, Lundquist, Julie K., Schroeder, John L., Wilczak, James M., and Wolfe, Daniel. Wed .
"Assessment of virtual towers performed with scanning wind lidars and Ka-band radars during the XPIA experiment". Germany. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-1215-2017.
@article{osti_1349153,
title = {Assessment of virtual towers performed with scanning wind lidars and Ka-band radars during the XPIA experiment},
author = {Debnath, Mithu and Iungo, Giacomo Valerio and Brewer, W. Alan and Choukulkar, Aditya and Delgado, Ruben and Gunter, Scott and Lundquist, Julie K. and Schroeder, John L. and Wilczak, James M. and Wolfe, Daniel},
abstractNote = {During the eXperimental Planetary boundary layer Instrumentation Assessment (XPIA) campaign, which was carried out at the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory (BAO) in spring 2015, multiple-Doppler scanning strategies were carried out with scanning wind lidars and Ka-band radars. Specifically, step–stare measurements were collected simultaneously with three scanning Doppler lidars, while two scanning Ka-band radars carried out simultaneous range height indicator (RHI) scans. The XPIA experiment provided the unique opportunity to compare directly virtual-tower measurements performed simultaneously with Ka-band radars and Doppler wind lidars. Furthermore, multiple-Doppler measurements were assessed against sonic anemometer data acquired from the meteorological tower (met-tower) present at the BAO site and a lidar wind profiler. As a result, this survey shows that – despite the different technologies, measurement volumes and sampling periods used for the lidar and radar measurements – a very good accuracy is achieved for both remote-sensing techniques for probing horizontal wind speed and wind direction with the virtual-tower scanning technique.},
doi = {10.5194/amt-10-1215-2017},
journal = {Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Online)},
number = 3,
volume = 10,
place = {Germany},
year = {Wed Mar 29 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Wed Mar 29 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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