Complex terrain experiments in the New European Wind Atlas.

The New European Wind Atlas project will create a freely accessible wind atlas covering Europe and Turkey, develop the model chain to create the atlas and perform a series of experiments on flow in many different kinds of complex terrain to validate the models. This paper describes the experiments of which some are nearly completed while others are in the planning stage. All experiments focus on the flow properties that are relevant for wind turbines, so the main focus is the mean flow and the turbulence at heights between 40 and 300 m.

Direct measurement of the spectral transfer function of a laser based anemometer.

The effect of a continuous-wave (cw) laser based anemometer's probe volume on the measurement of wind turbulence is studied in this paper. Wind speed time series acquired by both a remote sensing cw laser anemometer, whose line-of-sight was aligned with the wind direction, and by a reference sensor (sonic anemometer) located in the same direction, were used. The spectral transfer function, which describes the attenuation of the power spectral density of the wind speed turbulence, was calculated and found to be in good agreement with the theoretical exponential function, which is based on the properties of the probe volume of a focused Gaussian laser beam.

Expression of p16(INK4A) and alterations of the 9p21-23 chromosome region in non-small-cell lung carcinomas: relationship with tumor growth parameters and ploidy status.

The 9p21-23 chromosome region harbors a number of known and putative tumor-suppressor genes (TSGs). The best characterized gene in this area is p16(INK4A) (CDKN2A). Alterations of its product have been observed in various malignancies, including non-small-cell lung carcinomas (NSCLCs).