Measurement of wind speed using a rapid-scanning lidar
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Remote Sensing
- Vol. 15 (2) , 375-380
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01431169408954081
Abstract
A technique has been developed whereby wind speeds can be estimated routinely from plume height and range data gathered by Lidar. In essence, a plume is scanned rapidly at 2 or more distances downwind and correlations of plume parameters sought as a function of delay. Numerical simulations have shown that the technique is reliable. A small bias may, however, arise if variations in plume height are used as the tracer since these are affected by the skewness of momentum transfer in the boundary layerKeywords
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