Articles | Volume 15, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-3243-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-3243-2022
Research article
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30 May 2022
Research article |  | 30 May 2022

A new scanning scheme and flexible retrieval for mean winds and gusts from Doppler lidar measurements

Julian Steinheuer, Carola Detring, Frank Beyrich, Ulrich Löhnert, Petra Friederichs, and Stephanie Fiedler

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Doppler wind lidars (DWLs) allow the determination of wind profiles with high vertical resolution and thus provide an alternative to meteorological towers. We address the question of whether wind gusts can be derived since they are short-lived phenomena. Therefore, we compare different DWL configurations and develop a new method applicable to all of them. A fast continuous scanning mode that completes a full observation cycle within 3.4 s is found to be the best-performing configuration.