Measurements of Turbulence Profiles with Scanning Doppler Lidar for Wind Energy Applications
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Measurements of Turbulence Profiles with Scanning Doppler Lidar for Wind
Energy Applications
Rod Frehlich
University of Colorado, Boulder, CORAL/NCAR, Boulder, CO
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Acknowledgments• CTI (Steve Hannon, Sammy Henderson, Jerry
Pelk, Mark Vercauteren, Keith Barr)• Larry Cornman, Kent Goodrich (Juneau)• DARPA – Pentagon Shield (Paul Benda)
– R. Sharman, T. Warner, J. Weil, S. Swerdlin (NCAR)– Y. Meillier, M. Jensen, B. Balsley (CU)
• Army Research Office (Walter Bach)• NSF (Steve Nelson)• NREL (Neil Kelley, Bonnie Jonkman)• CU renewable energy seed grant• NOAA (Bob Banta, Yelena Pichugina)
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Beam Is Scanned to Provide2-3D Spatial Coverage
2 m wavelength system:60 m (400 nsec) Pulsetransmitted @ 500Hz
Portion of ScatteredLight CollectedBy Telescope
‘Pencil’ BeamWidth 10-30 cm
Relative Wind Induces a DopplerFrequency Shift in the BackscatteredLight; This Frequency Shift IsDetected by the Sensor
Return Light is DopplerShifted by Moving Aerosols
• Doppler Lidar = Infrared Doppler Radar• Infrared: Instead of Raindrops, Lidar Uses Natural Particulates• Doppler: Velocity/Wind Sensing (Strength)• Radar: Accurate Position Information
1.6 m wavelength system~40 m (270 nsec) Pulsetransmitted @750Hz
IT’S EYE SAFE!
IT’S EYE SAFE!
Graphics Courtesy Lockheed Martin
Complements of Steve Hannon
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Point Statistics of Turbulence• Longitudinal
velocity (radial)• Transverse velocity• Longitudinal
structure function
• Transverse structure function
DLL(s)=<[vL(r2)-vL(r1)]2>
DNN(s)=<[vN(r2)-vN(r1)]2>
Lidar●
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Horizontal Isotropic Turbulence• Universal description - longitudinal
• σu – longitudinal standard deviation• L0u – longitudinal outer scale• Λ(x) – universal function (von Kármán)• s<< L0u
• εu = energy dissipation rate
DLL(s) = 2 σu2Λ(s/L0u)
DLL(s) = CK εu2/3 s2/3 CK ~2.0
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Horizontal Isotropic Turbulence• Universal description - transverse
• σv – transverse standard deviation• L0v – transverse outer scale• Λ(x) – universal function (von Karman)• s<< L0v
• εv = energy dissipation rate
DNN(s) = 2 σv2Λ(s/L0v)
DNN(s) = CJ εv2/3 s2/3 CJ ~2.67
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Doppler LIDAR Range Weighting
• Time of data maps to range (1 μs = 150 m)
• Pulsed lidar velocity measurements filter the random radial velocity vr(z)
• Pulse width Δr• Range gate length
defined by processing interval Δp
• Range weighting W(r)
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LIDAR Data and Range Weighting• LIDAR radial velocity
estimates at range R
• vwgt(R) - pulse weighted velocity
• e(R) estimation error
• vr(z) - random radial velocity
• W(r) - range weighting
v(R) = vwgt (R) + e(R)
vwgt(R)=∫vr(z)W(R-z) dz
Δp=72 mΔr=66 m
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Estimates of Random Error
• Radial velocity error variance e
2 can be determined from data
• Spectral noise floor is proportional to e
2
e2=0.25 m2/s2
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Non-Scanning Lidar Data
• Vertically pointed beam
• Time series of velocity for various altitudes z
• High spatial and temporal resolution
• Resolves turbulence
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Lidar Structure Function (Radial)• Corrected longitudinal structure function
• Draw(s) – raw structure function
• e2(s) – correction for estimation error
• Theoretical relation (Δh<<Δp)
• Best-fit to data produces estimates of σu,L0u,εu
Dwgt(s) = Draw(s) – 2 e2(s)
Dwgt(s) = 2 σu2 G(s, L0u, Δp, Δr)
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Turbulence Statistics
• Calculate corrected structure function
• Determine best-fit to theoretical model
• Best-fit parameters are estimates of turbulence statistics
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Scanning Lidar Data
• High-resolution profiles of wind speed and turbulence statistics
• Highest statistical accuracy
• Rapid update rates compared with tower derived statistics
• Can provide profiles at multiple locations
• Ideal for some wind energy applications
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LIDAR Velocity Map for 1o
• Radial velocity
• 100 range-gates along beam
• 180 beams (Δφ=0.5 degree)
• 18 seconds per scan
• Δh=R Δφ << Δp for R<2km
in situ prediction
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Wind Speed and Direction• Best-fit lidar radial
velocity for best-fit wind speed and direction
• Fluctuations are turbulence
• Longitudinal fluctuations along the lidar beam
• Transverse fluctuation in azimuth direction
in situ prediction
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Lidar Structure Function (Azimuth)• Corrected azimuth structure function
• Draw(s) – raw structure functione
2(s) – correction for estimation error• Theoretical relation (Δh<<Δp)
• Best-fit to data produces estimates of σv,L0v,εv
Dwgt(s) = Draw(s) – 2 e2(s)
Dwgt(s) = 2 σv2 Gφ(s, L0v, Δp, Δr)
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Turbulence Estimates Zero Elevation
• Structure function of radial velocity in range a)
• Best fit produces estimates of u, u, L0u
• Structure function in azimuth b)
• Best fit produces estimates of v, v, L0v
in situ predictiontropprof04
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Turbulence Estimates H=80 m• Best fit for noise
corrected structure function (o)
• Raw structure functions (+)
• Radial velocity a) has small elevation angles (<= 4o)
• Structure function in azimuth b)
• Good agreement in u and v (isotropy)
in situ predictiontropprof04
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CIRES Tethered Lifting System (TLS):Hi-Tech Kites or Aerodynamic Blimps
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High Resolution Profiles from TLS Data
• TLS instrumentation used as “truth” for turbulence profiles
• Hot-wire sensor for small scale velocity
• Cold-wire sensor for small scale temperature
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Velocity Turbulence
• Along-stream velocity u(t)
• Spectrum Su(f)
• Taylors frozen hypothesis
• Energy dissipation rate
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Temperature Turbulence
• Along-stream temperature T(t)
• Spectrum ST(f)
• Taylors frozen hypothesis
• Temperature structure constant CT
2
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LIDAR, SODAR and TLS (Blimp)
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Lidar and TLS Profiles
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Wind Energy Applications
• Towers are expensive and limited in height coverage
• CW Doppler lidar can measure winds near an individual turbine
• Scanning Doppler lidar can monitor large area upstream of a wind farm
• Autonomous lidar (CTI)
– Airports
– Homeland security DC
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Doppler Lidar at NREL
• Radial velocity map• Large eddies• Large velocity
variations• Multiple elevation
angles provide 3D sampling
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High Turbulence
• Large fluctuations about the best fit wind speed
• 3D average required for accurate statistics
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Azimuth Structure Functions
• Best-fit model provides robust turbulence statistics
• Profiles produced from 3D volume scan by processing data in altitude bins
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Atmospheric Profiles
• Accurate profiles produced
• Most complete description of wind and turbulence available
• Ideal for site resource assessment
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Large Turbulent Length Scale
• Difficult to separate turbulence and larger scale processes
• Similar to troposphere and Boreas Data
• Violates Cartesian approximation of analysis
• What is optimal methodology?
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Small Turbulent Length Scale
• Large corrections for spatial filtering
• Requires shorter lidar pulse and more accurate corrections
• Critical for lower altitudes
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Profiles from Two Angular Sectors
• Differences in wind speed and direction
• Turbulence profiles similar
• Implications for site resource assessment
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Rapid Evolution in 7 Minutes
• Rapid change in wind speed
• Turbulence levels are not reduced with lower winds
• 3D scanning required for short time averages
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Directional Shear
• Large shear in wind direction
• Typically at night with light winds
• More data required for wind energy applications
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Future Work• Optimize Lidar design, signal processing, and
scanning patterns• Determine universal description of turbulence
for better turbulence estimates (anisotropy?)• Extend spatial filter correction to two
dimensions for faster scanning and larger maximum range
• Improve algorithms for large length scale L0 (relax Cartesian approximation)
• More data required, especially for wind energy research
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Lafayette Campaign
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LIDAR and TLS (Blimp)
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Low Turbulence Data
• Accurate corrections for pulse filtering required
• Correct turbulence model for spatial statistics ε = 5.0 10-6
m2/s3
v = 0.090 m/sL0 =140 m
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Low Turbulence Conditions
in situ prediction
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Convection
in situ prediction
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Coherent Doppler Lidar Properties
• Direct measurement of Doppler shift from aerosol particles
• Doppler shift 1 MHz for 1 m/s (2 μm)• Accurate radial velocity estimates
with little bias • Most sensitive detection method• Immune to background light • Eye safe operation
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Atmospheric LIDAR Data• Lidar signal is
a narrow band Gaussian random process
• Simple statistical description for constant velocity and aerosol backscatter
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Atmospheric LIDAR Data
• Lidar signal
• Random velocity
• Pulse weighting
• Range gate defined by processing interval
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Estimation of Velocity
• Data from multiple pulses N improves performance
• Spectral based estimators
• Maximum Likelihood has best performance
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Multiple Pulse Estimates
• Single pulse data has random outliers
• Pulse accumulation removes outliers
• Temporal resolution reduced
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Estimates of Random Error-cont.
• Multiple pulse data has a smaller region for the noise floor
• The atmospheric signal must have low frequency content
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Hard Target Data
• Velocity bias determined from hard target data
• Bias is typically less than 2 cm/s
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Verification of Accuracy
• Velocity random error depends on signal energy
• Accuracy is very good
• Agrees with theoretical predictions if turbulence is included