What is it about?
Wind lidars have been traditionally used to measure vertical profiles of wind using conical scans. But what happens if there is an obstacle within the cone messing things up? We thought "out of the cone" and came up with a simple solution: tilting the scan away from the obstacles.
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Why is it important?
Wind energy industry, airports, meteorology, and climate change science all desperately need wind data to run their models and understand the atmospheric physics. Out tilted profiling will extend the current applicability of lidars to measure winds to new sites.
Perspectives
This work sparked from an issue with land availability during the AWAKEN experiment. The initial hurdle was converted into an opportunity to learn something new and hopefully create a useful tool for other researchers.
Stefano Letizia
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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This page is a summary of: Tilted lidar profiling: Development and testing of a novel scanning strategy for inhomogeneous flows, Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, July 2024, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0209729.
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