Perdigão 2015: methodology for atmospheric multi-doppler lidar experiments

• Autor(a) principal: Vasiljević, Nikola
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Palma, José M.L.M., Angelou, Nikolas, Matos, José Carlos, Menke, Robert, Lea, Guillaume, Mann, Jakob, Courtney, Michael, Ribeiro, Luís Frölén, Gomes, Vitor M.M.G. Costa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/14520
• topic: Wind energy

The long-range and short-rangeWindScanner systems (LRWS and SRWS), multi-Doppler lidar instruments, when combined together can map the turbulent flow around a wind turbine and at the same time measure mean flow conditions over an entire region such as a wind farm. As theWind- Scanner technology is novel, performing field campaigns with the WindScanner systems requires a methodology that will maximize the benefits of conducting WindScannerbased experiments. Such a methodology, made up of 10 steps, is presented and discussed through its application in a pilot experiment that took place in a complex and forested site in Portugal, where for the first time the twoWindScanner systems operated simultaneously. Overall, this resulted in a detailed site selection criteria, a well-thought-out experiment layout, novel flow mapping methods and high-quality flow observations, all of which are presented in this paper.