• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.767-774
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• 2022

In this paper raw spectrum data were analyzed to suggest the moving forward of performance evaluation and quality control of wind profilers of four manufacturers operating in South Korea. For the analysis, the profile of the spectrum averaged by season and the profile of four statistical values (minimum, average, median, and maximum) calculated by Power Spectrum Density (PSD) were used. The quality of spectrum data was the best for LAP-3000, followed by YKJ3, PCL-1300, and CLC-11-H. In Cheorwon and Chupungnyeong, where PCL-1300 was installed, the variability of the spectrum due to ground clutter and non-meteorological signals was large, so ground clutter removal and signal processing such as moving average and multi-peak were required. In Gunsan and Paju, where CLC-11-H was installed, DC (Direct Current) bias and propagation folding were found, so it is necessary to remove the DC bias and limit the effective altitude for observation.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.277-290
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• 2018

Wind data observed by wind profiler provide wind vectors with the altitudes using PCL1300, wind computation program. As a result of application with parameters set in program currently, it is difficult to compute wind vectors in the upper air over 3 km. This id because a very strict criterion for parameters removes large amounts of data. In this study, therefore, we improve the methods of application by resetting parameters to expand data collection area of wind vectors and reduce underestimation. Although the acquisition rate of the wind vector increased from 72.2% to 92.2%, the RMSE of the wind speed maintained 1.5 m/s - 3.1 m/s, which is less than 15% of the error rate at each altitude.

• Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Sciences Society Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.53-56
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• 2008

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.1191-1198
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• 2018

The wind profiler radar provides a standing profile of the wind vector and the atmospheric physical signal for the fixed point. Since the wind vector is calculated by the manufacturer's data processing program, the quality control of the date is limited. Therefore, understanding and exploiting the raw spectrum data need to improve the quality of the wind vector. The raw data of the wind vector is the power spectral density stored in binary form. In this study, an algorithm was completed to transform the raw data into the real spectral density, and the use of raw data was evaluated by retrieving zero-order and first-order moments of the spectral based on the spectrum quality control.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.305-312
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• 2018

The quality of the radar and profiler network was estimated to forecast difficult meteorological situations. A network of UHF Doppler wind profilers and Doppler weather radars have been deployed all over the Korean Peninsular, with dense spatial resolution between instruments. The radar network allows to retrieve the three dimensional dynamics and to analyze the numerical model outputs at small and meso scales. This work has seldom been performed in any other place of the world, with such a high resolution. The wind field from radar network is a good agreement with the background wind fields based on the numerical modeling. This study will be helpful to forecast severe weathers as well as local meteorological phenomena.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.1041-1048
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• 2023

Wind LiDAR and Wind Profiler are devices that produce continuous vertical distribution of wind vector in high-resolution data, and their use has recently been increasing. Although the observation and data processing methods of the two devices are similar, differences in wind detection accuracy may occur depending on weather and operation settings. introduce the characteristics of the two instruments and wind calculation methods, and apply the latest instrument verification standards to evaluate their accuracy by comparing them with the wind observed with a radiosonde. Accordingly, a new direction for performance verification following the introduction of equipment and additional necessary complements are presented.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.965-970
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• 2023

Wind profiler and wind lidar produce a vertical profile of winds in high spatiotemporal resolution in the atmospheric boundary layer. The wind lidar makes the wind vector using DBS (Doppler Beam Swinging) and VAD (Velocity Azimuth Display) methods. The DBS method has the advantage of obtaining a wind profile with a fast scan time. On the other hand, there is a restriction that requires at least two beams including vertical beam, which causes a decrease in the data acquisition rate. The VAD method was improved to produce more wind vector of the wind profiler as well as the wind lidar, which generally uses 5 beams. Fourier series was estimated with the radial velocity by the DBS method and wind vector was determined by setting the azimuth interval and applying the radial velocity by the Fourier series to the VAD method. The wind vectors were retrieved at the altitude where the wind was not calculated by the DBS method, and the results of the two methods were consistent.

• Atmosphere
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.57-70
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• 2003

The National Center for Intensive Observation of Severe Weathers (NCIO) as a part of METRI's principal project "Korea Enhanced Observing Period; KEOP" was established at Haenam Weather Observatory in order to effectively monitor and observe heavy rainfall in summer, which is essential for the identification of the structure and evolution mechanism of mesoscale severe weather system. The intensive field-based experiments in 2002 within southwestern Korea toward various meteorological phenomena ranging from heavy rainfall to snowfall were conducted in collaboration with KMA(Korea Meteorological Administration) and universities. In this study, preliminary analysis results using intensive observation data obtained from these experiments are presented together with the introduction of NCIO and its operational structure.

• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.1-11
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• 2017

The investigation on reliability of ERA-Interim reanalysis wind data was conducted using wind data from the five met masts measured at inland and coastal areas, Jeju island. Shinchang, Handong, Udo, Susan and Cheongsoo sites were chosen for the met mast location. ERA-Interim reanalysis data at onshore and offshore twenty points over Jeju Island were analyzed for creating Wind Statistics using WindPRO software. Reliability of ERA-Interim reanalysis wind data was assessed by comparing the statistics from the met mast wind data with those predicted at the interest point using the Wind Statistics. The relative errors were calculated for annual average wind speed and annual energy production. In addition, the trend of the error was analyzed with distance from met mast. As a result, ERA-Interim reanalysis wind data was more suitable for offshore wind resource assessment than onshore.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.13-19
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• 2012

In this paper, the offshore wind farms have been designed by using WindPRO with the help of real wind data measurements at Jeju Costal area by calculating the annual energy production for exact economic evaluation. In order to achieve benefit of wind farm, the annual revenue for power generation have been calculated with SMP and REC value. And construction cost has derived from the real wind farm project case. Also O&M cost has been estimated by OMCE (Operating & Maintenance Cost Estimator) to get accurate cost of wind farm. Economic evaluation of wind farms have been performed by comparing above parameters. In addition, sensitivity analysis calculating the effect of these factors has also been carried out.