Advancing airborne Doppler lidar wind profiling in turbulent boundary layer flow – an LES-based optimization of traditional scanning-beam versus novel fixed-beam measurement systems

Gasch, Philipp; Kasic, James; Maas, Oliver; Wang, Zhien

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-5495-2023

Articles | Volume 16, issue 22

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-5495-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-5495-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 22

Research article

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16 Nov 2023

Research article |

| 16 Nov 2023

Advancing airborne Doppler lidar wind profiling in turbulent boundary layer flow – an LES-based optimization of traditional scanning-beam versus novel fixed-beam measurement systems

Philipp Gasch, James Kasic, Oliver Maas, and Zhien Wang

Data sets

Simulation results for Gasch et al., 2023, AMT: Advancing airborne Doppler lidar wind profiling in turbulent boundary layer flow – an LES-based optimization of traditional scanning-beam versus novel fixed-beam measurement systems Philipp Gasch https://doi.org/10.35097/1810

Short summary

This paper rethinks airborne wind measurements and investigates a new design for airborne Doppler lidar systems. Recent advances in lidar technology allow the use of multiple lidar systems with fixed viewing directions instead of a single lidar attached to a scanner. Our simulation results show that the proposed new design offers great potential for both higher accuracy and higher-resolution airborne wind measurements.