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Steinheuer, Julian ORCID: 0000-0001-9835-4277, Detring, Carola ORCID: 0000-0001-7143-4787, Beyrich, Frank, Loehnert, Ulrich, Friederichs, Petra ORCID: 0000-0003-4566-572X and Fiedler, Stephanie ORCID: 0000-0001-8898-9949 (2022). A new scanning scheme and flexible retrieval for mean winds and gusts from Doppler lidar measurements. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15 (10). S. 3243 - 3261. GOTTINGEN: COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH. ISSN 1867-8548

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Abstract

Doppler wind lidars (DWLs) have increasingly been used over the last decade to derive the mean wind in the atmospheric boundary layer. DWLs allow the determination of wind vector profiles with high vertical resolution and provide an alternative to classic meteorological tower observations. They also receive signals from altitudes higher than a tower and can be set up flexibly in any power-supplied location. In this work, we address the question of whether and how wind gusts can be derived from DWL observations. The characterization of wind gusts is one central goal of the Field Experiment on Sub-Mesoscale Spatio-Temporal Variability in Lindenberg (FESSTVaL). Obtaining wind gusts from a DWL is not trivial because a monostatic DWL provides only a radial velocity per line of sight, i.e., only one component of a three-dimensional vector, and measurements in at least three linearly independent directions are required to derive the wind vector. Performing them sequentially limits the achievable time resolution, while wind gusts are short-lived phenomena. This study compares different DWL configurations in terms of their potential to derive wind gusts. For this purpose, we develop a new wind retrieval method that is applicable to different scanning configurations and various time resolutions. We test eight configurations with StreamLine DWL systems from HALO Photonics and evaluate gust peaks and mean wind over 10 min at 90 m a.g.l. against a sonic anemometer at the meteorological tower in Falkenberg, Germany. The best-performing configuration for retrieving wind gusts proves to be a fast continuous scanning mode (CSM) that completes a full observation cycle within 3.4 s. During this time interval, about 11 radial Doppler velocities are measured, which are then used to retrieve single gusts. The fast CSM configuration was successfully operated over a 3-month period in summer 2020. The CSM paired with our new retrieval technique provides gust peaks that compare well to classic sonic anemometer measurements from the meteorological tower.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Steinheuer, Julian UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-9835-4277 UNSPECIFIED Detring, Carola UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-7143-4787 UNSPECIFIED Beyrich, Frank UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Loehnert, Ulrich UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Friederichs, Petra UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-4566-572X UNSPECIFIED Fiedler, Stephanie UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-8898-9949 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-677314
DOI:	10.5194/amt-15-3243-2022
Journal or Publication Title:	Atmos. Meas. Tech.
Volume:	15
Number:	10
Page Range:	S. 3243 - 3261
Date:	2022
Publisher:	COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
Place of Publication:	GOTTINGEN
ISSN:	1867-8548
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language PERFORMANCE; STATISTICS Multiple languages Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/67731