Measurements of wind and turbulence profiles with scanning Doppler lidar for wind energy applications

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 42-47

  Frehlich, Rod ^a   Kelley, Neil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler measurements; Remote sensing; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING; SPACE OPTICS; TURBULENCE;

DOPPLER LIDARS; DOPPLER MEASUREMENTS; LIDAR SYSTEMS; OBSERVATION TIMES; OPTIMAL OPERATIONS; POINT SENSORS; QUALITY PROFILES; RAPID CHANGES; RESOURCE ASSESSMENTS; SAMPLING VOLUMES; STATISTICAL ACCURACIES; TURBULENCE PROFILES; TURBULENT STATISTICS; WIND ENERGIES; WIND ENERGY; WIND FARMS; WIND FIELDS;

WIND POWER;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; DOPPLER LIDAR; ESTIMATION METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; TURBULENCE; WIND POWER; WIND PROFILE;

EID: 84891898232     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2008.2001758     Document Type: Article

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