Sentences with phrase «doppler lidar»
An algorithm for identifying LLJs was created and applied to over two years of Doppler lidar wind profile data to investigate LLJ occurrence and properties over Utö, a small island in the Finnish archipelago.
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Pichugina Y. L., R. M. Banta, J. B. Olson, J. R. Carley, M. C. Marquis, W. A. Brewer, J. M. Wilczak, I. Djalalova, L. Bianco, E. P. James, S. G. Benjamin and J. Cline (October 2017): Assessment of NWP forecast models in simulating offshore winds through the lower boundary layer by measurements from a ship - based scanning Doppler lidar.
Newsom R. K., W. A. Brewer, J. M. Wilczak, D. E. Wolfe, S. Oncley and J. K. Lundquist (March 2017): Validating precision estimates in horizontal wind measurements from a Doppler lidar.
Choukulkar A., W. A. Brewer, S. P. Sandberg, A. Weickmann, T. A. Bonin, R. M. Hardesty, J. K. Lundquist, R. Delgado, G. V. Iungo, R. Ashton, M. Debnath, L. Bianco, J. M. Wilczak, S. Oncley and D. E. Wolfe (January 2017): Evaluation of single and multiple Doppler lidar techniques to measure complex flow during the XPIA field campaign.
«Our Doppler LIDAR instrument can be used from a plane to remotely measure a hurricane's wind with high spatial and temporal resolutions.
«Although specialists are typically needed to operate and maintain a sophisticated Doppler LIDAR, we are confident we can develop our approach into a system that will be as easy to use as a smartphone.»
The LLJ identification algorithm created in the study can be applied to other operational Doppler lidars to enable near - real time LLJ monitoring.
Not exact matches
«Space - borne Doppler wind LIDAR is now regarded as the most promising way to meet the need for global wind data requirements and to fill gaps in the wind data provided by other methods,» said Xia.
The researchers designed a dual frequency direct detection Doppler wind LIDAR that used a laser emitting 1.5 - micron light.
The researchers say that the stability and accuracy of this new system represents a substantial improvement compared to previously developed direct detection Doppler wind LIDARs.
In The Optical Society (OSA) journal Optics Letters, the researchers demonstrated their Doppler wind LIDAR system's ability to measure horizontal wind speed with high accuracy and showed that the system remained stable throughout a 10 - day test period.
«We demonstrated a Doppler wind LIDAR with a simplified optical layout that also substantially enhances the system stability,» said Dou.
Lidars are used to measure aerosol optical properties, trace gas concentrations, temperature and, with Doppler capability, winds and turbulence above the surface.