Floating Lidar Assessment of Atmospheric Stability in the North Sea

In this work, the 2D parametric-solver algorithm [1] used to assess atmospheric stability from floating Doppler wind lidar (FDWL) measurements is revisited. The algorithm performance is studied using data from IJmuiden campaign. Mast-measured temperature and wind-speed provided the reference parameters used to evaluate the performance of the stability estimation algorithm. From 5,922 10-min samples available, the algorithm classified the atmosphere as stable (52% of the cases), neutral (31%) and unstable (17%), which successfully agreed with the mast-derived reference classification (53%, 30% and 17%, respectively).