Descripción del proyecto
Innovador sistema de detección y medición de distancias por luz para mediciones atmosféricas
Los esfuerzos para mitigar el cambio climático han hecho que la comprensión y el seguimiento de la física atmosférica (como las distribuciones del viento y la temperatura en la atmósfera) sean cada vez más importantes. La mejora de los modelos climáticos y las previsiones meteorológicas resulta fundamental. Sin embargo, existe un vacío de datos para las mediciones continuas por encima de los 5 km, que es la altura máxima de los radares de viento y los sistemas de detección y medición de distancias por luz (LiDAR) compactos comerciales. El equipo del proyecto EULIAA, financiado con fondos europeos, desarrollará un conjunto LiDAR que medirá de forma autónoma el viento y la temperatura atmosféricos desde 5 hasta 50 km las 24 horas del día, los 7 días de la semana, durante un largo período (más de 1 año sin mantenimiento) y cubrirá una amplia zona de observación (hasta 10 000 km2). Las nuevas unidades LiDAR son económicas, compactas, eficientes, fácilmente transportables y funcionan con aerogeneradores o paneles solares.
Objetivo
The importance of understanding and monitoring atmospheric physics has increased drastically in recent years due to the anthropogenic impact on climate. One crucial research field is the understanding of wind and temperature distributions in the atmosphere to enhance climate models and improve weather forecasts.
There is currently a major data gap for continuous measurements above 5 km, which is the maximum height of commercial compact wind radars and lidars.
The goal of EULIAA is the development of a lidar array measuring autonomously the atmospheric wind and temperature from 5 km up to 50 km on a 24/7-basis over a long period of time (> 1 year without maintenance) and covering a large observation area (up to 10’000 km2). EULIAA’s lidar units are low-priced, compact, efficient, easily transportable, and autonomous thanks to low power requirements (by wind turbines or solar panels).
EULIAA will yield novel data sets in near real-time for implementation into European databases Copernicus and GEOSS, that will fill current data-gaps and help to monitor the effects of climate change and to evaluate climate protection measures.
The baseline technology was demonstrated in the first field campaign with a lidar system that operates in the IR and is currently being transferred to a European industrial partner.
Once the enhanced capability developed within EULIAA has been demonstrated and validated in difficult-to-reach regions (polar, equatorial, and mountain), with a high TRL (6–8), a business plan and roadmap for an European array will be produced, involving relevant industrial, standardisation, and end-user actors.
The EULIAA project (48 months and 3M€ grant requested) gathers 7 partners from 5 countries with experts in lidar and its subsystems, atmospheric observatories, and atmospheric data provider. It contains all the necessary disciplines to ensure the technological development, data transfer, and sustainable exploitation.
Ámbito científico
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesmeteorology
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energywind power
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technologyradar
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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Convocatoria de propuestas
HORIZON-CL6-2022-GOVERNANCE-01
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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation ActionsCoordinador
80686 Munchen
Alemania