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