Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 44, Issue 5, 1414(2015)

Development of 60 km mobile Rayleigh wind lidar

Han Yan1,2,3, Sun Dongsong1, Weng Ningquan2, Dou Xiankang1, Wang Jianguo3, and Zhang Yanhong3
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    Recently, the wind field in the altitude range 25-60 km is still poorly monitored in real time, therefore the 60 km mobile Rayleigh wind lidar based on a Fabry-Perot etalon was developed for wind measurement. The overall structure of this lidar system was described in detail. The design of the subsystems of this lidar was indroduced elaborately. In order to improve the accuracy of wind measurement, experiment was designed to calibrate the transmission curves of FPI, and the calibration method was presented. The transmission curves of FPI were calibrated experimentally, and the standard deviations for parameters of FPI are less than 0.06 in the calibrated experiments. The developed lidar has observed the wind of 15-60 km altitudes over Delingha, and wind velocity and direction profiles were obtained. Observations of lidar were compared with the rawinsondes′, and the compared result show good agreement between both measurements. Measure error was calculated, wind velocity and direction errors of the measurements are less than 4 m/s and 6° respectively when it is lower than 40 km. They are less than 8 m/s and 18° when it is higher than 40 km. Wind observations demonstrate that the lidar has the expected good performances.

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    Han Yan, Sun Dongsong, Weng Ningquan, Dou Xiankang, Wang Jianguo, Zhang Yanhong. Development of 60 km mobile Rayleigh wind lidar[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2015, 44(5): 1414

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    Category: 激光与光电子技术应用

    Received: Sep. 10, 2014

    Accepted: Oct. 17, 2014

    Published Online: Jan. 26, 2016

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