Wind Profiles from 10 LiDAR Stations on Gotthard Pass, Summer 2023

10 LiDAR locations along a transect in the Gotthard wind park provide wind speed, wind direction, turbulence, temperature, pressure, and humidity data from the summer of 2023. The data is quality controlled and annotated according to CF-1.8 data principles. The collection methods are detailed in an article under review titled 'Resolving three-dimensional wind velocity fields with sequential wind-Doppler LiDAR for wind energy in the complex terrain - Gotthard Pass, Switzerland'.

Use Cases

• Modeling wind resource potential for turbine placement based on wind speed and direction profiles.
• Analyzing atmospheric stability and turbulence effects on energy production based on turbulence and temperature data.
• Validating and improving computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models for complex terrain using multi-point wind measurements.
• Studying microclimate and weather patterns in mountainous regions based on pressure and humidity data.

Strengths

• Data is quality controlled and follows the CF-1.8 metadata convention, which suggests standardized formatting.
• Measurements cover multiple atmospheric variables (wind speed, direction, turbulence, temperature, pressure, humidity) from 10 distinct locations.
• Collection methods are documented in a peer-reviewed article (under review), providing methodological transparency.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to a single mountain pass during one season.

Provenance

Source

ENVIDAT

Collection Method

Sequential wind-Doppler LiDAR measurements along a transect.

Time Range

Summer 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2024-01-01 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Gotthard pass, Switzerland