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Development of an automatic thresholding method for wake meandering studies and its application to the data set from scanning wind lidar
Geophysical institute and Bergen Offshore Wind Centre, University of Bergen, Allégaten 70, 5007 Bergen, Norway
Mostafa Bakhoday-Paskyabi
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Geophysical institute and Bergen Offshore Wind Centre, University of Bergen, Allégaten 70, 5007 Bergen, Norway
Joachim Reuder
Geophysical institute and Bergen Offshore Wind Centre, University of Bergen, Allégaten 70, 5007 Bergen, Norway
Finn Gunnar Nielsen
Geophysical institute and Bergen Offshore Wind Centre, University of Bergen, Allégaten 70, 5007 Bergen, Norway
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We described a new automated method to separate the wind turbine wake from the undisturbed flow. The method relies on the wind speed distribution in the measured wind field to select one specific threshold value and split the measurements into wake and background points. The purpose of the method is to reduce the amount of data required – the proposed algorithm does not need precise information on the wind speed or direction and can run on the image instead of the measured data.
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