[HTML][HTML] A review of wind turbines in complex terrain

M Elgendi, M AlMallahi, A Abdelkhalig… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
With global energy consumption increasing, a shift to renewable energy resources is critical
for sustainable energy development. Wind energy has emerged as one of the most …

Measuring wind with small unmanned aircraft systems

S Prudden, A Fisher, M Marino, A Mohamed… - Journal of Wind …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS) are an emerging technology that is
suitable for multitude of applications requiring small sensor payloads including airborne …

Wind profiling in the lower atmosphere from wind-induced perturbations to multirotor UAS

J González-Rocha, SFJ De Wekker, SD Ross… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
We present a model-based approach to estimate the vertical profile of horizontal wind
velocity components using motion perturbations of a multirotor unmanned aircraft system …

Reviewing wind measurement approaches for fixed-wing unmanned aircraft

A Rautenberg, MS Graf, N Wildmann, A Platis, J Bange - Atmosphere, 2018 - mdpi.com
One of the biggest challenges in probing the atmospheric boundary layer with small
unmanned aerial vehicles is the turbulent 3D wind vector measurement. Several …

The multi-purpose airborne sensor carrier MASC-3 for wind and turbulence measurements in the atmospheric boundary layer

A Rautenberg, M Schön, K Zum Berge, M Mauz… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
For atmospheric boundary-layer (ABL) studies, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) can
provide new information in addition to traditional in-situ measurements, or by ground-or …

Balloons and quadcopters: Intercomparison of two low-cost wind profiling methods

M Varentsov, V Stepanenko, I Repina, A Artamonov… - Atmosphere, 2021 - mdpi.com
Experimental field campaigns are an essential part of atmospheric research, as well as of
university education in the field of atmospheric physics and meteorology. Experimental field …

MesSBAR—Multicopter and instrumentation for air quality research

L Bretschneider, A Schlerf, A Baum, H Bohlius… - Atmosphere, 2022 - mdpi.com
Air quality measurements usually consist of ground-based instrumentation at fixed locations.
However, vertical profiles of pollutants are of interest for understanding processes …

[HTML][HTML] Estimation of turbulence dissipation rate from Doppler wind lidars and in situ instrumentation for the Perdigão 2017 campaign

N Wildmann, N Bodini, JK Lundquist… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - amt.copernicus.org
The understanding of the sources, spatial distribution and temporal variability of turbulence
in the atmospheric boundary layer, and improved simulation of its forcing processes require …

[HTML][HTML] Development of community, capabilities, and understanding through unmanned aircraft-based atmospheric research: the LAPSE-RATE campaign

G De Boer, C Diehl, J Jacob, A Houston… - Bulletin of the …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Altstädter, B., and Coauthors, 2015: ALADINA—An unmanned research aircraft for
observing vertical and horizontal distributions of ultrafine particles within the atmospheric …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-point in situ measurements of turbulent flow in a wind turbine wake and inflow with a fleet of uncrewed aerial systems

T Wetz, N Wildmann - Wind Energy Science, 2023 - wes.copernicus.org
The demand on wind energy for power generation will increase significantly in the next
decade due to the transformation towards renewable energy production. In order to optimize …