Wind turbinewake characterization from temporally disjunct 3-D measurements

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Doubrawa, Paula ^a   Barthelmie, Rebecca J ^a   Wang, Hui ^b   Pryor, S C ^c   Churchfield, Matthew J ^d  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b SgurrEnergy Ltd   (Canada)

^c Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy; LiDAR; Turbine; Wakes; Wind

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; OPTICAL RADAR; SCANNING; TURBINES; WAKES; WIND; WIND TURBINES;

ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE LAYERS; DISCRETE DISTANCES; ENERGY; LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; SCANNING GEOMETRY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL PLANE; WIND TURBINE WAKES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 85019664667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8110939     Document Type: Article

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