@misc{8d64eb7c635442838050af7a37ad0eca,
title = "Characterizing Inflow Conditions Across the Rotor Disk of a Utility-Scale Wind Turbine (Poster)",
abstract = "Multi-megawatt utility-scale wind turbines operate in a turbulent, thermally-driven atmosphere where wind speed and air temperature vary with height. Turbines convert the wind's momentum into electrical power, and so changes in the atmosphere across the rotor disk influence the power produced by the turbine. To characterize the inflow into utility scale turbines at the National Wind TechnologyCenter (NWTC) near Boulder, Colorado, NREL recently built two 135-meter inflow monitoring towers. This poster introduces the towers and the measurements that are made, showing some of the data obtained in the first few months of operation in 2011.",
keywords = "atmospheric science, inflow monitoring, meteorology, wind turbine",
author = "NREL",
year = "2012",
language = "American English",
series = "Presented at the 192nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 22-26 January 2012, New Orleans, Louisiana",
type = "Other",
}