Suppression of the wind farm contribution from the atmospheric radar returns

In this paper a methodology for suppression of the returns from wind turbines in weather radar data is presented. The methodology is demonstrated on a data set provided by the Atmospheric Radar Research Center of the University of Oklahoma and obtained with S-band weather radar. Bootstrapping, spectral phase coherence and time Doppler spectral analysis are used to facilitate the recognition of the wind turbine contributions. These recognized contributions are suppressed in the frequency domain, allowing for a partial recovery of the residual weather signal.