Short introduction

Nicolai Gayle Nygaard

IEA task 31/32 workshop, 04 October 2016

Project BEACon

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Location

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Westermost Rough

Humber Gateway (E.ON)

Radar1

Radar2

Scan sectors

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Scan sectors

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Dual-Doppler processed wind speeds

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Hard targets

The return power is high from hard

targets

Locate the turbines

Used to align the coordinate system

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From statistics to dynamics

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Data products - wakes

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Horizontal cross-section Vertical cross-sections

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Radar specifications

Range: up to 30 km

Beam width: 0.5°

Along beam resolution: 15 m

Transverse resolution: 87 m at 10 km

Revisit time: 60 seconds or less depending on scan pattern

Pulse repetition frequency 4000 Hz

Wave length 3 cm

Pulse width 20 µs (note pulse compression)

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