Emerging mobile Micropulsed-Doppler Lidar technology for Wind Energy Research

Y. Pichugina; A. Brewer; M. Zucker; M. Holloway; R. Marchbanks; B. McCarty; S. Baidar; B. Carroll; E. Strobach; S. Brown; N. Bodini; S. Letizia; P. Moriarty

doi:10.1051/epjconf/202636201032

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Issue		EPJ Web Conf. Volume 362, 2026 31^st International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC 31) Held Together with the 22^nd Coherent Laser Radar Conference (CLRC 22)


Article Number		01032
Number of page(s)		4
Section		Joint CLRC/ILRC Session: New Lidar Technologies and Methods
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202636201032
Published online		09 April 2026

EPJ Web of Conferences 362, 01032 (2026)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202636201032

Emerging mobile Micropulsed-Doppler Lidar technology for Wind Energy Research

Y. Pichugina^(a)^,(b), A. Brewer^(b), M. Zucker^(a)^,(b), M. Holloway^(a)^,(b), R. Marchbanks^(a)^,(b), B. McCarty^(a)^,(b), S. Baidar^(a)^,(b), B. Carroll^(a)^,(b), E. Strobach^(a)^,(b), S. Brown^(b), N. Bodini^(c), S. Letizia^(c) and P. Moriarty^(c)

^(a) CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
^(b) NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA
^(c) National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Published online: 9 April 2026

Abstract

The development of a Micropulsed Doppler (MD) Lidar and deployment of this compact system on mobile air-borne, ship-borne, and truck-borne platforms opened a new opportunity to characterize the dynamics of large-scale, complex wind flows in the atmospheric boundary layer in all regions, from urban areas to remote locations in complex terrain. Traditional in-situ or stationary profiling observations cannot provide the flexible combination of spatial and temporal coverage fully available from mobile lidars.

The Atmospheric Remote Sensing (ARS) group at the Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) successfully operated mobile Doppler lidars from various platforms providing unique measurements to characterize ocean and atmospheric processes, to study the complex flow of winds around wildland fires, and to understand the effect of a large wind farm on wind flows under different atmospheric conditions.

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