Wind energy meteorology: Insight into wind properties in the turbine-rotor layer of the atmosphere from high-resolution doppler lidar

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 883-902

  Banta, Robert M ^a   Pichugina, Yelena L ^b   Kelley, Neil D ^c   Hardesty, R Michael ^a   Brewer, W Alan ^a  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH-RESOLUTION DOPPLER LIDARS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; NEAR-SURFACE MEASUREMENTS; REMOTE SENSING INSTRUMENTS; STANDARD PROFILES; VERTICAL RESOLUTION; WIND PROPERTIES; WIND SPEED DATA;

DOPPLER EFFECT; ENERGY RESOURCES; OPTICAL RADAR; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

WIND POWER;

EID: 84880210469     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00057.1     Document Type: Article

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