Wind turbine wake measurements with automatically adjusting scanning trajectories in a multi-Doppler lidar setup

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 3801-3814

  Wildmann, Norman ^a   Vasiljevic, Nikola ^b   Gerz, Thomas ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETER; AZIMUTH; DETECTION METHOD; DOPPLER LIDAR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SOFTWARE; TRAJECTORY; WAKE; WIND DIRECTION; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 85049129073     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-11-3801-2018     Document Type: Article

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