Evaluation of three lidar scanning strategies for turbulence measurements

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1993-2013

  Newman, Jennifer F ^a,f   Klein, Petra M ^a   Wharton, Sonia ^b   Sathe, Ameya ^c,h   Bonin, Timothy A ^a,g   Chilson, Phillip B ^a,d   Muschinski, Andreas ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d University of Oklahoma   (United States)

^e NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^f NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^h DONG Energy AS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; LIDAR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; TURBULENCE; WAVE VELOCITY;

COLORADO; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84969523068     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-9-1993-2016     Document Type: Article

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