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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Spectral correction of turbulent energy damping on wind lidar measurements due to spatial averaging
Matteo Puccioni
Wind Fluids and Experiments (WindFluX) Laboratory, Mechanical Engineering Department, The University of Texas at Dallas, 800 W Campbell Rd, Richardson, Texas 75080, USA
Giacomo Valerio Iungo
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Wind Fluids and Experiments (WindFluX) Laboratory, Mechanical Engineering Department, The University of Texas at Dallas, 800 W Campbell Rd, Richardson, Texas 75080, USA
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Short summary
A procedure for correcting the turbulent-energy damping connected with spatial averaging of wind lidars is proposed. This effect of the lidar measuring process is modeled through a low-pass filter, whose order and cut-off frequency are estimated directly from the lidar data. The proposed procedure is first assessed through simultaneous and colocated lidar and sonic-anemometer measurements. Then it is applied to several datasets collected at sites with different terrain roughness.
A procedure for correcting the turbulent-energy damping connected with spatial averaging of wind...