The Cornell lidar team were at the Wind Energy Institute of Canada Prince Edward Island site measuring wakes and flow in complex terrain.

Our paper in Wind Energy was accepted and will be online shortly at Wind Energy:
Barthelmie, R.J., Wang, H., Doubrawa, P., Giroux, G. and Pryor, S.C. 2016: Effects of an escarpment on flow parameters of relevance to wind turbines, Wind Energy. 15 MAR 2016, DOI: 10.1002/we.1980

The dataset is available for download here
Data_casestudy_300degsector

Please see the press release (05/25/15) below:
Press_release_final

Here is a preliminary presentation of the results:
PEIWEE_Slideshow_blog
(If you can’t see the movie here it is on You Tube: https://youtu.be/-_jYq6x8aMw )

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Photo of the ZephIR lidar measuring wakes and profiles near the cliff

Z423_atsubstation
Photo of the second ZephIR lidar measuring profiles further inland

Gill4&Z447
More instruments including the Gill sonic measuring near the cliff edge

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Galion at work scanning wakes

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Class outdoors discussing the Galion scanning geometry

MM_T4_Budget
WEICan met mast with additional Cornell sonics

Dataset to accompany Wang, H., Barthelmie, R.J., Doubrawa, P. and Pryor, S.C. (2016) Errors in radial velocity variance from Doppler wind lidar, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 9, 1-18:
amt2016-83