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Figure73:Bragg-relatedacoustic(below)andelectro-magnetic(above)frequenciesforRASS.<br />

a Doppler-RASS.<br />

Bragg-(windprofiler) RASS A Bragg-RASS (or windprofiler-RASS) is basically a windprofiler<br />

with an additional acoustic emitter. When the Bragg condition is fulfilled (Fig. 73), i.e.<br />

the wavelength of the sound waves λa is half the one of the electro-magnetic waves λe, then<br />

there is optimal backscatter of the electro-magnetic waves from the acoustic waves (Fig. 74).<br />

The electro-magnetic signal is emitted at a fixed frequency, but the emitted sound signal is<br />

a chirp signal with varying frequency fa. From the sound wave length λa,B at which optimal<br />

backscatter occurs the propagation speed of the sound signal can be determined via the<br />

following dispersion relation:<br />

ca = λa,Bfa/2. (151)<br />

For a VHF windprofiler operating at 50 MHz a sound frequency of about 100 Hz is used,<br />

for a UHF windprofiler operating at 1 GHz a sound frequency around 2 kHz is most suitable<br />

to fulfil the Bragg condition. Because the attenuation of sound waves in the atmosphere is<br />

strongly frequency dependent, a UHF RASS can detect temperature profiles up to about 1.5<br />

kmheightwhereasaVHFRASScanobservetemperatureprofilesthroughoutthetroposphere.<br />

Doppler-(sodar) RASS A Doppler-RASS (or sodar-RASS) is a sodar with an additional<br />

electro-magnetic emitter and receiver (Fig. 75) operating at a frequency fe,0. From the<br />

Doppler shift ∆fe of the electro-magnetic radiation which is backscattered at the density<br />

fluctuations caused by the sound waves the propagation speed ca of the sound waves is<br />

determined:<br />

ca = −c∆fe/(2fe,0) (152)<br />

where c denotes the speed of light. A Doppler-RASS like a Bragg-RASS also emits a chirp<br />

sound signal in order to assure that the Bragg condition is optimally met due to the varying<br />

temperature over the entire height range.<br />

The so determined propagation speed ca is a sum of the speed of sound cs and of the<br />

vertical movement of the air w within which the sound waves propagate:<br />

ca = cs +w. (153)<br />

<strong>DTU</strong> Wind Energy-E-Report-0029(EN) 131

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