Weibull Wind-Speed Distribution Parameters Derived from a Combination of Wind-Lidar and Tall-Mast Measurements Over Land, Coastal and Marine Sites

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 329-348

  Gryning, Sven Erik ^a   Floors, Rogier ^a   Peña, Alfredo ^a   Batchvarova, Ekaterina ^a,b   Brümmer, Burghard ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carrier to noise ratio; Doppler wind lidar; Reversal height; Shape parameter of the Weibull distribution; Wind profile

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COASTAL ZONES; OPTICAL RADAR; RURAL AREAS; SPEED; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE WATERS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND;

CARRIER TO NOISE RATIO; DOPPLER WIND LIDAR; REVERSAL HEIGHT; SHAPE PARAMETERS; WIND PROFILES;

FLOW VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84948669231     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: 15731472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-015-0113-x     Document Type: Article

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