Analysis of the performance of a ship-borne scanning wind lidar in the Arctic and Antarctic

Zentek, Rolf; Kohnemann, Svenja H. E.; Heinemann, Günther

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5781-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5781-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5781-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 10

Research article

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19 Oct 2018

Research article |

| 19 Oct 2018

Analysis of the performance of a ship-borne scanning wind lidar in the Arctic and Antarctic

Rolf Zentek, Svenja H. E. Kohnemann, and Günther Heinemann

Data sets

Upper air soundings during POLARSTERN cruise PS85 (ARK-XXVIII/2) G. König-Langlo https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.844803

Continuous meteorological surface measurement during POLARSTERN cruise PS85 (ARK-XXVIII/2), G. König-Langlo https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.839962

Upper air soundings during PO- 95 LARSTERN cruise PS96 (ANT-XXXI/2 FROSN) G. König-Langlo https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.861658

Continuous meteorological surface measurement during POLARSTERN cruise PS96 (ANT-XXXI/2 FROSN) G. König-Langlo https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.861441

Short summary

The performance of the lidar measurements in comparison with radio soundings generally shows small RMSD (bias) for wind speed of around 1 m s⁻¹ (0.1 m s⁻¹) and for a wind direction of around 10° (1°). The post-processing of the non-motion-stabilized data shows comparably high quality to studies with motion stabilized systems. Ship-based doppler lidar measurements can contribute to filling the data gap over oceans, particularly in polar regions.