MS#01.1 (Dual) Doppler Wind Radar for Wind Energy Applications

B. LANGE¹, J. GOTTSCHALL¹, B. HIRTH², J. SCHROEDER²
¹ Fraunhofer IWES|² Texas Tech University

Wind resource, metocean and extreme conditions

Dual Doppler (DD) Wind Radar technology enables measurement of the wind field on the scale of a typical large-scale wind farm with very high temporal and spatial resolution. Compared to currently used wind lidar technologies, DD Wind Radar offers the ability to scan more than 10 times faster with a substantially larger maximum data range allowing for the simultaneous documentation of multi-scaled phenomena important to the wind energy community.

In this mini-symposium, we want to follow-up on the mini-symposium last time and discuss the current state of the art of DD Wind Radar in both research and industry applications so far. We encourage contributions from academic and industry users who have worked with the Wind Radar technology and/or data and want to share their experiences and conclusions. Work on the advancement of the technology, data processing and analysis, measurement results, validation studies and applications for wind energy topics are equally welcome. The aim is to provide an overview of the current status and identify future research needs.