Retrieving wind statistics from average spectrum of continuous-wave lidar

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1673-1683

  Branlard, E ^a   Pedersen, A T ^a   Mann, J ^a   Angelou, N ^a   Fischer, A ^a   Mikkelsen, T ^a   Harris, M ^b   Slinger, C ^b   Montes, B F ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ZephIR Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c LM WIND POWER   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETER; DOPPLER EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LIDAR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; WIND FIELD;

EID: 84880564980     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-6-1673-2013     Document Type: Article

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