Wind turbine clutter has gradually become a concern for the radar community for its increasing size and quantity worldwide. Based on the S-band polarimetric Doppler PARSAX radar measurements, this paper demonstrates the micro-Doppler features and spectral-polarimetric characteristic of wind turbine clutter, the probability distribution functions of different spectral-polarimetric variables. Finally, a simple thresholding method to remove wind turbine clutter is put forward, and its effectiveness can be verified by the measured data. This work is expected to contribute to developing effective algorithms for this dynamic clutter suppression for operational weather radar.@en

In this paper, a simple electromagnetic model for wind turbine's backscattering is proposed. The wind turbine is modeled as a linear structure made of three rotating wires on which an electromagnetic fields impinges. Since a wind turbine is much bigger than typical radar range resolution cells, just a small part of it is involved in the backscattering for a single resolution cell. An analysis of the micro-Doppler features for each range cell involving the wind turbine is then proposed. The models are both compared and validated using real data acquired with PARSAX radar. The main features obtained from these models can be used to understand the backscattering mechanisms for a wind turbine and for developing of clutter mitigation algorithms.@en