Sodar - NREL Scintex SFAS Wind Profiler, Condon - Raw Data
**Overview**
The dataset includes 15-minute average wind speed and direction records from 10 m to 250 m above ground level (AGL) in 5-m range gates. Data were collected by a Scintec SFAS wind profiler installed at the Condon State Airport in Oregon, about 1.8 km northeast of the center of Condon, Ore., and are intended for validating WFIP2 model improvements.
**Data Details**
Instrument location:
* N 45 14? 41.58? (N 45.244885)
* W 120 10? 06.58? (W 120.168495)
Instrument clock and computer system time set to UTC.
**Data Quality**
The Scintec SFAS wind profiler instrument installed at the Decker Ranch is capable of measuring at heights up to 500 m. For this study, the maximum height was set to 250 m. The instrument was oriented to true north, so no corrections to the wind direction should be made. Scintec wind profilers come with the APRun software package, which performs data collection and quality control (QC), among other functions. Version 1.46 of APRun was used in this study.
The APRun manual states:
*The primary results are checked against local signal quality criteria, combined signal quality criteria and two-dimensional spatial/temporal consistency tests. Any data that does not pass all quality control tests is devalidated and removed*.
Devalidation means replacing the value with an error value, usually a series of ?9?s, such as 99.99 or 999.99. Not all devalidated data are actually removed from the *.mnd files, so the user must filter them out. There are some error flags that indicate the type of error, but these are not included in the *.mnd files, and we have no access to them.
Because QC already has been performed by APRun, our QC procedures consisted of removing samples with error values and performing a visual inspection of the data to see if larger patterns indicated any kind of problem.
There are 515 gaps of two hours or less and 26 gaps of more than two hours. The longest gaps are:
* 47.78 days, from 2016-03-16 18:00Z to 2016-05-03 12:45Z
* 40.20 days, from 2016-06-04 13:15Z to 2016-07-14 18:00Z
All gaps that exceed two hours are listed in file: Condon_gaps.txt.
Citation Formats
TY - DATA
AB - **Overview**
The dataset includes 15-minute average wind speed and direction records from 10 m to 250 m above ground level (AGL) in 5-m range gates. Data were collected by a Scintec SFAS wind profiler installed at the Condon State Airport in Oregon, about 1.8 km northeast of the center of Condon, Ore., and are intended for validating WFIP2 model improvements.
**Data Details**
Instrument location:
* N 45° 14’ 41.58” (N 45.244885)
* W 120° 10’ 06.58” (W 120.168495)
Instrument clock and computer system time set to UTC.
**Data Quality**
The Scintec SFAS wind profiler instrument installed at the Decker Ranch is capable of measuring at heights up to 500 m. For this study, the maximum height was set to 250 m. The instrument was oriented to true north, so no corrections to the wind direction should be made. Scintec wind profilers come with the APRun software package, which performs data collection and quality control (QC), among other functions. Version 1.46 of APRun was used in this study.
The APRun manual states:
*The primary results are checked against local signal quality criteria, combined signal quality criteria and two-dimensional spatial/temporal consistency tests. Any data that does not pass all quality control tests is devalidated and removed*.
Devalidation means replacing the value with an error value, usually a series of ‘9’s, such as 99.99 or 999.99. Not all devalidated data are actually removed from the *.mnd files, so the user must filter them out. There are some error flags that indicate the type of error, but these are not included in the *.mnd files, and we have no access to them.
Because QC already has been performed by APRun, our QC procedures consisted of removing samples with error values and performing a visual inspection of the data to see if larger patterns indicated any kind of problem.
There are 515 gaps of two hours or less and 26 gaps of more than two hours. The longest gaps are:
* 47.78 days, from 2016-03-16 18:00Z to 2016-05-03 12:45Z
* 40.20 days, from 2016-06-04 13:15Z to 2016-07-14 18:00Z
All gaps that exceed two hours are listed in file: Condon_gaps.txt.
AU - Scott, George
A2 - Jager, David
DB - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)
DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
DO - 10.21947/1328891
KW - a2e
KW - atmosphere to electrons
KW - wind
KW - weto
KW - eere
KW - wfip2
KW - Wind Forecast Improvement Project 2
KW - Sodar
KW - NREL Scintex SFAS Wind Profiler, Condon
KW - Raw Data
KW - sodar
KW - z13
KW - 00
LA - English
DA - 2015/11/20
PY - 2015
PB - Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO)
T1 - Sodar - NREL Scintex SFAS Wind Profiler, Condon - Raw Data
UR - https://doi.org/10.21947/1328891
ER -
Scott, George, and David Jager. Sodar - NREL Scintex SFAS Wind Profiler, Condon - Raw Data. Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO), 20 November, 2015, A2E. https://doi.org/10.21947/1328891.
Scott, G., & Jager, D. (2015). Sodar - NREL Scintex SFAS Wind Profiler, Condon - Raw Data. [Data set]. A2E. Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO). https://doi.org/10.21947/1328891
Scott, George and David Jager. Sodar - NREL Scintex SFAS Wind Profiler, Condon - Raw Data. Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO), November, 20, 2015. Distributed by A2E. https://doi.org/10.21947/1328891
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abstractNote = {**Overview**
The dataset includes 15-minute average wind speed and direction records from 10 m to 250 m above ground level (AGL) in 5-m range gates. Data were collected by a Scintec SFAS wind profiler installed at the Condon State Airport in Oregon, about 1.8 km northeast of the center of Condon, Ore., and are intended for validating WFIP2 model improvements.
**Data Details**
Instrument location:
* N 45 14? 41.58? (N 45.244885)
* W 120 10? 06.58? (W 120.168495)
Instrument clock and computer system time set to UTC.
**Data Quality**
The Scintec SFAS wind profiler instrument installed at the Decker Ranch is capable of measuring at heights up to 500 m. For this study, the maximum height was set to 250 m. The instrument was oriented to true north, so no corrections to the wind direction should be made. Scintec wind profilers come with the APRun software package, which performs data collection and quality control (QC), among other functions. Version 1.46 of APRun was used in this study.
The APRun manual states:
*The primary results are checked against local signal quality criteria, combined signal quality criteria and two-dimensional spatial/temporal consistency tests. Any data that does not pass all quality control tests is devalidated and removed*.
Devalidation means replacing the value with an error value, usually a series of ?9?s, such as 99.99 or 999.99. Not all devalidated data are actually removed from the *.mnd files, so the user must filter them out. There are some error flags that indicate the type of error, but these are not included in the *.mnd files, and we have no access to them.
Because QC already has been performed by APRun, our QC procedures consisted of removing samples with error values and performing a visual inspection of the data to see if larger patterns indicated any kind of problem.
There are 515 gaps of two hours or less and 26 gaps of more than two hours. The longest gaps are:
* 47.78 days, from 2016-03-16 18:00Z to 2016-05-03 12:45Z
* 40.20 days, from 2016-06-04 13:15Z to 2016-07-14 18:00Z
All gaps that exceed two hours are listed in file: Condon_gaps.txt.},
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https://dx.doi.org/10.21947/1328891
Details
Data from Nov 20, 2015
Last updated Oct 11, 2021
Submitted Sep 16, 2016
Organization
Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO)
Contact
George Scott
+303.384.6903
Authors
Original Source
https://a2e.energy.gov/data/wfip2/sodar.z13.00Research Areas
Keywords
a2e, atmosphere to electrons, wind, weto, eere, wfip2, Wind Forecast Improvement Project 2, Sodar, NREL Scintex SFAS Wind Profiler, Condon, Raw Data, sodar, z13, 00DOE Project Details
Project Name Wind Data Hub
Project Number 67025
