A methodology for the reconstruction of 2D horizontal wind fields of wind turbinewakes based on dual-Doppler lidar measurements

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  van Dooren, Marijn F ^a   Trabucchi, Davide ^a   Kühn, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Long range scanning lidar; Plan position indicator (PPI); Wake measurement; Wind field reconstruction

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; OFFSHORE WIND FARMS; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING; WAKES; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

GROUND-BASED SCANNING; INHOMOGENEOUS SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; MASS CONTINUITY EQUATION; PLAN POSITION INDICATORS; RANGE SCANNING; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; WIND FIELD RECONSTRUCTION; WIND TURBINE WAKES;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 85019689037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8100809     Document Type: Article

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