Vertical profiles of the 3-D wind velocity retrieved from multiple wind lidars performing triple range-height-indicator scans

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 431-444

  Debnath, Mithu ^a   Iungo, G Valerio ^a   Ashton, Ryan ^a   Alan Brewer, W ^b   Choukulkar, Aditya ^b   Delgado, Ruben ^c   Lundquist, Julie K ^d,e   Shaw, William J ^f   Wilczak, James M ^b   Wolfe, Daniel ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANEMOMETER; BOUNDARY LAYER; EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIDAR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VERTICAL PROFILE; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 85012008713     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-10-431-2017     Document Type: Article

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