What is TITANIC?

TITANIC stands for Turbine Inflow Turbulence ANalysIs Code. This code is designed to analyze data obtained by a research-grade met tower with a focus on providing the data needed for wind energy applications, also known as turbine inflow.

TITANIC can:

• Read in raw data from a meteorological tower
• Apply calibrations or remove data known to be bad
• Carry out basic quality control
• Analyze data to quantify the conditions that are being measured by the tower
• Produce statistics and data about those conditions, including
  • mean wind parameters, like speed and direction, shear, and veer.
  • turbulence parameters, such as turbulence intensity, dissipation rates, and structure functions.
  • thermodynamics parameters, such as virtual potential temperature, monin-obukhov length, and Richardson number.
• Create plots and web pages for each data file
• Push data to an archive

See How Does TITANIC Fit in a Data Processing Workflow for details.

Where is TITANIC used?

TITANIC is used by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to analyze data from the National Wind Technology Center's M4 and M5 135-m towers. Find out more at https://nwtc.nrel.gov/MetData, and see the most recent data at https://nwtc.nrel.gov/M5. All plots were produced by TITANIC.

What do I Need to Use TITANIC?

1. MATLAB.
2. Sense of humor.

How do I Get Started?

Click on the "Download ZIP" button on the lower right of this page. Then, see the wiki page on Getting Started.

Where's the Documentation?

Most of the code and outputs are documented in the TITANIC wiki. The code itself is heavily documented.

How Do I Report Issues or Errors?

Please use the issue-tracker to report issues.

Who Maintains and Contributes to This Code?

This code is maintained by:

• Andy Clifton (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

Project contributors include:

• Jenni Rinker (Duke University)