Assessment of virtual towers performed with scanning wind lidars and Ka-band radars during the XPIA experiment
| Autor: | M. Debnath, G. V. Iungo, W. A. Brewer, A. Choukulkar, R. Delgado, S. Gunter, J. K. Lundquist, J. L. Schroeder, J. M. Wilczak, D. Wolfe |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Vol 10, Iss 3, Pp 1215-1227 (2017) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1867-1381 1867-8548 |
| DOI: | 10.5194/amt-10-1215-2017 |
| Popis: | During the eXperimental Planetary boundary layer Instrumentation Assessment (XPIA) campaign, which was carried out at the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory (BAO) in spring 2015, multiple-Doppler scanning strategies were carried out with scanning wind lidars and Ka-band radars. Specifically, step–stare measurements were collected simultaneously with three scanning Doppler lidars, while two scanning Ka-band radars carried out simultaneous range height indicator (RHI) scans. The XPIA experiment provided the unique opportunity to compare directly virtual-tower measurements performed simultaneously with Ka-band radars and Doppler wind lidars. Furthermore, multiple-Doppler measurements were assessed against sonic anemometer data acquired from the meteorological tower (met-tower) present at the BAO site and a lidar wind profiler. This survey shows that – despite the different technologies, measurement volumes and sampling periods used for the lidar and radar measurements – a very good accuracy is achieved for both remote-sensing techniques for probing horizontal wind speed and wind direction with the virtual-tower scanning technique. |
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