Fog and Low Stratus Obstruction of Wind Lidar Observations in Germany—A Remote Sensing-Based Data Set for Wind Energy Planning

Energies

Doron Callies¹  Lukas Pauscher¹  Benjamin Rösner²  Sebastian Egli²  Boris Thies²  Jörg Bendix²  Tina Beyer³ 

[1] Fraunhofer IEE Kassel, 34119 Kassel, Germany;Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing (LCRS), University of Marburg, 35032 Marburg, Germany;Ramboll, 81541 Munich, Germany;

关键词: wind;    lidar;    availability;    fog;    clouds;   

DOI  :  10.3390/en13153859

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Coherent wind doppler lidar (CWDL) is a cost-effective way to estimate wind power potential at hub height without the need to build a meteorological tower. However, fog and low stratus (FLS) can have a negative impact on the availability of lidar measurements. Information about such reductions in wind data availability for a prospective lidar deployment site in advance is beneficial in the planning process for a measurement strategy. In this paper, we show that availability reductions by FLS can be estimated by comparing time series of lidar measurements, conducted with WindCubes v1 and v2, with time series of cloud base altitude (CBA) derived from satellite data. This enables us to compute average maps (2006–2017) of estimated availability, including FLS-induced data losses for Germany which can be used for planning purposes. These maps show that the lower mountain ranges and the Alpine regions in Germany often reach the critical data availability threshold of 80% or below. Especially during the winter time special care must be taken when using lidar in southern and central regions of Germany. If only shorter lidar campaigns are planned (3–6 months) the representativeness of weather types should be considered as well, because in individual years and under persistent weather types, lowland areas might also be temporally affected by higher rates of data losses. This is shown by different examples, e.g., during radiation fog under anticyclonic weather types.

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