Dual doppler radar project aims to provide 'step change' in wind resource measurement

2015-05-19T17:04:00

Wind flow around turbines can be a complex business(Photo: Harald Pettersen/Statoil)

In mid-March, the Carbon Trust - via its Offshore Wind Accelerator Programme (OWA) - announced plans to support a state of the art technology trial to understand the viability of using dual doppler radar to produce ''high resolution dynamic maps of the wind flow through and around a wind farm.''

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