In-situ aircraft measurements of wind farm wake effects during the AWAKEN campaign in Oklahoma (September 2023), flight AWAKEN_20230907_1759

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The AWAKEN (American WAKE ExperimeNt) aircraft measurement campaign was conducted in September 2023 to investigate the interactions between wind farms and the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) in the Southern Great Plains of Oklahoma, USA. The campaign, involved 20 research flights conducted close to hub height using the research aircraft Cessna F406 with call sign D-ILAB of TU Braunschweig. The flight pattern was aligned perpendicular to the prevailing wind direction downwind of the wind farms King Plains and Armadillo Flats. These flights were designed to capture the effects of stable atmospheric conditions on wind speed and turbulence during early morning hours. In addition to flight legs perpendicular to the wind direction, vertical profiles up to an altitude of 1 km were included regularly to investigate atmospheric stability and wind profiles, in particular the phenomenon of low level jet. The resulting data include wind speed, turbulence intensities, and temperature distributions at different altitudes and distances from the wind farms. These measurements complement stationary data and provide valuable insights into the spatial and temporal variability of the wind field and vertical atmospheric stratification downwind of onshore wind farms. The dataset aims to improve wake models and optimize energy production from wind farms. This dataset is part of a broader effort to enhance power output prediction and ensure network stability with increasing reliance on variable renewable energy sources. The participation of the research aircraft of TU Braunschweig in the AWAKEN experiment was funded by the Klaus Tschira Stiftung GmbH (Germany) under Contract No. 03.006.2023.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.984800
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Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0141683
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Provenance
Creator Bärfuss, Konrad ORCID logo; Spoor, Jonas; Bestmann, Ulf ORCID logo; Cremer, Matthias; Feuerle, Thomas; Angermann, Maik; Bitter, Mark; Lampert, Astrid ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference Klaus Tschira Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100007316 Crossref Funder ID 03.006.2023 https://klaus-tschira-stiftung.de/meldungen/windenergie-forschung-braunschweig-usa-messkampagne/ AWAKEN Aircraft participation
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 17127617 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-97.791W, 36.339S, -97.178E, 36.520N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2023-09-07T17:49:20Z
Temporal Coverage End 2023-09-07T20:12:04Z