TY - CONF
T1 - Overview of the Kansas Windfarm 2013 field program
AU - Cummins, Kenneth L.
AU - Quick, Mason G.
AU - Rison, William
AU - Krehbiel, Paul
AU - Thomas, Ron
AU - Rodeheffer, Dan
AU - Warner, Tom A.
AU - Saba, Marcelo M.F.
AU - Schumann, Carina
AU - Myers, Jackson
AU - Lyons, Walter
AU - Nag, Amitabh
AU - Cramer, John
AU - Turner, Tommy
AU - Samaras, Tim
AU - Samaras, Paul
AU - Young, Carl
AU - McHarg, Geoff
AU - Engle, Joshua
AU - Cummer, Steven A.
AU - Lu, Gaopeng
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity, ICAE 2014
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Initial observations of lightning attachment to wind turbine generators at a Kansas wind farm in 2012 resulted in a number of insights and left several open questions. This led to the planning and re-deployment for the summer or 2013. Ten groups have collaborated on this 2013 field project, resulting in the following suite of instruments and observations: 10-station 3D lightning mapping array (LMA), 8-station slow antenna array, 4 electric field mills, 2 continuous, standard-speed, fixed-location video cameras, three mobile high-speed video observation vehicles, remote charge-moment observations, remote low-light cameras focusing on upper-atmospheric discharges, and upgraded U.S. National Lightning Detection Network observations of both cloud and cloud-to-ground discharges (including continuous waveform data). In addition, all turbine generators are equipped with devices that provide estimates of lightning peak current within the blades. This presentation will provide an overview of the 2012 and 2013 observations, including a brief discussion of the instruments, seasonal overviews of lighting incidence by type, turbine attachment statistics, and an example of downward attachment to wind turbines.
AB - Initial observations of lightning attachment to wind turbine generators at a Kansas wind farm in 2012 resulted in a number of insights and left several open questions. This led to the planning and re-deployment for the summer or 2013. Ten groups have collaborated on this 2013 field project, resulting in the following suite of instruments and observations: 10-station 3D lightning mapping array (LMA), 8-station slow antenna array, 4 electric field mills, 2 continuous, standard-speed, fixed-location video cameras, three mobile high-speed video observation vehicles, remote charge-moment observations, remote low-light cameras focusing on upper-atmospheric discharges, and upgraded U.S. National Lightning Detection Network observations of both cloud and cloud-to-ground discharges (including continuous waveform data). In addition, all turbine generators are equipped with devices that provide estimates of lightning peak current within the blades. This presentation will provide an overview of the 2012 and 2013 observations, including a brief discussion of the instruments, seasonal overviews of lighting incidence by type, turbine attachment statistics, and an example of downward attachment to wind turbines.
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T2 - 15th International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity, ICAE 2014
Y2 - 15 June 2014 through 20 June 2014
ER -