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12 Complex terrain and lidars 231<br />

12.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231<br />

12.2 Lidars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231<br />

12.2.1 ZephIR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232<br />

12.2.2 Windcube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233<br />

12.3 Challenges and Known Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234<br />

12.3.1 The conical scanning error in complex terrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234<br />

12.3.2 Predicting the error by means of a flow model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235<br />

12.4 Experimental studies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236<br />

12.4.1 Hilly site; Lavrio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236<br />

12.4.2 Mountainous site; Panahaiko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238<br />

12.5 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238<br />

Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240<br />

References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241<br />

13 Turbulence measurements by wind lidars 242<br />

13.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242<br />

13.2 Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243<br />

13.2.1 Systematic turbulence errors for the ZephIR lidar . . . . . . . . . . . 245<br />

13.2.2 Systematic turbulence errors for the WindCube lidar . . . . . . . . . 247<br />

13.2.3 Definition of the systematic error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248<br />

13.3 Comparison of models with the measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249<br />

13.3.1 Comparison with the ZephIR measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249<br />

13.3.2 Comparison with the WindCube measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . 252<br />

13.4 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253<br />

13.5 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256<br />

13.6 Future Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257<br />

Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257<br />

References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258<br />

14 Ground based passive microwave radiometry and temperature profiles 260<br />

14.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260<br />

14.2 Microwave radiometry fundamentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260<br />

14.3 Upward-looking radiometric temperature profile measurements . . . . . . . . 261<br />

14.4 Upward-looking angular scanning microwave radiometry . . . . . . . . . . . . 265<br />

14.5 An angular scanning temperature profile radiometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269<br />

14.6 Antarctica Dome C experimental site Radiometric measurements . . . . . . . 270<br />

14.7 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271<br />

Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274<br />

References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275<br />

15 SAR for wind energy 276<br />

15.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276<br />

15.2 SAR technical description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276<br />

15.3 Wind retrieval from SAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278<br />

15.4 Beyond C-band VV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280<br />

15.5 Current practices in SAR wind retrieval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280<br />

15.6 SAR wind retrieval at <strong>DTU</strong> Wind Energy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282<br />

15.7 Mesoscale wind phenomena from SAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282<br />

15.8 SAR wind fields near offshore wind farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284<br />

15.9 Wind resources from SAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285<br />

15.10S-WAsP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287<br />

15.11The wind class method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288<br />

15.12SAR wind resource maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289<br />

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