Mesoscale modelling of wind energy over non-homogeneous terrain

Mahrer, Y.; Segal, M.; Pielke, Roger A.

doi:10.1007/bf00120031

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“…Many approaches based on the NWP have been used to predict wind resources (Mahrer et al, 1985;Finardi et al, 1998;Murakami et al, 2003). Kim et al, (2006) introduced the national wind map of Korea established by a numerical simulation, and showed the impact of the spatial resolution of a numerical model on a wind resource evaluation in the Korean Peninsula, and also suggested that the estimated sea wind can be changed by assimilating satellite data.…”

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Evaluation of wind resource using numerically optimized data in the southwestern Korean Peninsula

Kim

Lee

2010

Asia-Pacific J Atmos Sci

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The wind distribution over the Korean Peninsula was analyzed using numerically optimized wind data to reduce the uncertainties in estimating the wind resources. The simulated data were validated by a comparison with surface wind observations and three statistical indexes. According to the simulated surface winds, mesoscale circulation, such as land-sea breeze and mountain-valley winds affect the wind characteristics of the hub height at coastal and inland regions. However, the prevailing winds are strongly associated with the synoptic forcing at the island and mountainous regions, not the regional circulation. On the other hand, the atmospheric stability definitely affects the strength of the daytime and nocturnal wind speed at a hub height. Overall, there was a significant difference between the numerical and logarithmic method to estimate the wind energy at hub height. Moreover, the discrepancy in the wind density estimated using the two methods becomes clear over inland and mountainous areas.

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