The 2013 IEA Wind Recommended Practices number 15, "IEA Wind Recommended Practice 15 on Ground-Based Vertically-Profiling Remote Sensing For Wind Resource Assessment (2013)" - also known as RP15 - was developed by the wind lidar and sodar community in response to a clear need for a document that would establish repeatable good practice in measurements with active remote sensing devices (RSDs).

Since that document was published in 2013, many things in the wind energy industry have changed. Therefore, in 2020 IEA Task 32 members started a review of RP15, which is stored in this repository.

The most recent version of the review can always be obtained through Zenodo.org:

IEA Wind Task 32 is an international collaborative research and development task executed through the IEA Wind Technology Collaboration Programme (IEA Wind TCP). Task 32's goal is to identify and mitigate the barriers to the adoption of wind lidar for wind energy applications. To find out more, see the Task 32 website at https://community.ieawind.org/task32/home.

The most recent released version of the review can always be obtained through Zenodo.org at DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3862383.

Following is a list of released versions of the review:

• 1.0 (7 August 2020). Released for comments. See

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• 7 August 2020: version 1.0 released for comments. See

• 5 May 2020: Project repository initiated.

See Zenodo.org at DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3862383 for details of contributors to specific versions.