Wind Tunnel Atmospheric Boundary Layer Inflow Dataset (Lidar & Hot-Wire Measurements)

This repository provides an open experimental dataset containing wind tunnel measurements of inflow conditions generated for four atmospheric boundary layers (ABLs). The dataset includes four NetCDF files, each corresponding to a distinct boundary layer produced in the wind tunnel test section. Boundary layers represented The inflow conditions represent increasing terrain roughness and turbulence intensity: Low-TI — low turbulence (1-2%) Mod-TI — medium turbulence (6%)/ offshore-like inflow High-TI — high turbulence (12-13%) / onshore-like inflow Extreme-TI — very high turbulence (>20%) / urban-like inflow Measurement systems Two complementary measurement techniques were used: Lidar measurements Average wind speed measurements Characterisation of inflow heterogeneity Hot-wire measurements High-frequency velocity fluctuations Turbulence intensity and spectral content Applications The dataset supports: wind turbine and wind farm experiments turbulence characterisation inflow modelling and scaling studies validation of LES and engineering models benchmarking of wind tunnel ABL generation