Project BEACon - IEA Wind Task 32€¦ · IEA task 31/32 workshop, 04 October 2016 Project BEACon....
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Short introduction Nicolai Gayle Nygaard IEA task 31/32 workshop, 04 October 2016 Project BEACon
Transcript of Project BEACon - IEA Wind Task 32€¦ · IEA task 31/32 workshop, 04 October 2016 Project BEACon....
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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