Articles | Volume 3, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-3-313-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-3-313-2018
Research article
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31 May 2018
Research article |  | 31 May 2018

Very short-term forecast of near-coastal flow using scanning lidars

Laura Valldecabres, Alfredo Peña, Michael Courtney, Lueder von Bremen, and Martin Kühn

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This paper focuses on the use of scanning lidars for very short-term forecasting of wind speeds in a near-coastal area. An extensive data set of offshore lidar measurements up to 6 km has been used for this purpose. Using dual-doppler measurements, the topographic characteristics of the area have been modelled. Assuming Taylor's frozen turbulence and applying the topographic corrections, we demonstrate that we can forecast wind speeds with more accuracy than the benchmarks persistence or ARIMA.
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