Abstract
This report is the contractual deliverable for MaRINET work task 4.3.1. This document consists of an introduction (Section 1) to the work and reporting of task 4.3. A survey of existing wind datasets is given in Section 2. In Section 3 an experiment to examine the feasibility of using coastally positioned scanning lidars to measure the near-shore wind resource. Overall conclusions are given in Section 4.