An autonomous Doppler Sodar wind profiling system

• Published in: Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
• Main Authors: Anderson, Philip S., Ladkin, Russell S., Renfrew, Ian A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Meteorological Society 2005
• Subjects: Atmospheric Sciences; Electronics; Engineering and Technology; Antarctic; Coats Land; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1615/

An autonomous Doppler sodar wind profiling system has been designed, built, tested, and then deployed for 2 years at a remote site in Coats Land, Antarctica. The system is designed around a commercially available phased-array sodar (a Scintec flat-array sodar, FAS64) and powered from five modular po...