The five main influencing factors  for lidar errors in complex terrain

Klaas-Witt, Tobias; Emeis, Stefan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-413-2022

Articles | Volume 7, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-413-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-413-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 7, issue 1

Research article

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01 Mar 2022

Research article |

| 01 Mar 2022

The five main influencing factors for lidar errors in complex terrain

Tobias Klaas-Witt and Stefan Emeis

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Final revised paper (published on 01 Mar 2022)
Preprint (discussion started on 29 Apr 2021)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

RC1:
'Comment on wes-2021-26', Mike Courtney, 02 Jun 2021

The comment was uploaded in the form of a supplement: https://wes.copernicus.org/preprints/wes-2021-26/wes-2021-26-RC1-supplement.pdf

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2021-26-RC1
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Tobias Klaas, 23 Aug 2021
  
  The authors would like to thank the referee very much for the valuable and concise feedback provided and the effort he put into this. We appreciate the comments and suggestions very much. They are very helpful to increase the quality of the manuscript and add relevant information for the reader.
  In the appendix, we answered all of the referee’s questions, comments and suggestions. We state how we use the feedback in the revised version of the manuscript and provide additional information and explaination for the referee whereever needed.
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2021-26-AC1
RC2:
'Comment on wes-2021-26', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Jun 2021

Thanks for this great contribution, please see the attached document.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2021-26-RC2
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Tobias Klaas, 23 Aug 2021
  
  The authors would like to thank the referee very much for the extensive and useful feedback provided and the effort put into this. We appreciate the comments and suggestions very much. They will surely help us to to increase the quality of the manuscript. We find it very valuable to add additional information that is of relevance for the reader.
  In the appendix, we answered all of the referee’s questions, comments and suggestions. We state how we use the feedback in the revised version of the manuscript and provide additional information and explaination for the referee whereever needed.
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2021-26-AC2

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload

AR by Tobias Klaas-Witt on behalf of the Authors (20 Sep 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (21 Sep 2021) by Sandrine Aubrun

RR by Mike Courtney (12 Oct 2021)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (24 Oct 2021)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (31 Oct 2021) by Sandrine Aubrun

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (01 Nov 2021) by Joachim Peinke (Chief editor)

AR by Tobias Klaas-Witt on behalf of the Authors (09 Nov 2021) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Light detection and ranging (lidar) has become a valuable technology to assess the wind resource at hub height of modern wind turbines. However, because of their measurement principle, common lidars suffer from errors at orographically complex, i.e. hilly or mountainous, sites. This study analyses the impact of the five main influencing factors in a non-dimensional, model-based parameter study.