Climate change impacts on wind power generation

SC Pryor, RJ Barthelmie, MS Bukovsky… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Wind energy is a virtually carbon-free and pollution-free electricity source, with global wind
resources greatly exceeding electricity demand. Accordingly, the installed capacity of wind …

Ten years of boundary-layer and wind-power meteorology at Høvsøre, Denmark

A Peña, R Floors, A Sathe, SE Gryning… - Boundary-Layer …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Operational since 2004, the National Centre for Wind Turbines at Høvsøre,
Denmark has become a reference research site for wind-power meteorology. In this study …

Combining induction control and wake steering for wind farm energy and fatigue loads optimisation

E Bossanyi - Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Turbine power and yaw set points can be adjusted across a wind farm to minimise the
overall power losses and the additional fatigue loads caused by wake interactions. Detailed …

Full-scale spectrum of boundary-layer winds

XG Larsén, SE Larsen, EL Petersen - Boundary-layer meteorology, 2016 - Springer
Extensive mean meteorological data and high frequency sonic anemometer data from two
sites in Denmark, one coastal onshore and one offshore, have been used to study the full …

Identification of the energy contributions associated with wall-attached eddies and very-large-scale motions in the near-neutral atmospheric surface layer through wind …

M Puccioni, M Calaf, ER Pardyjak, S Hoch… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Recent works on wall-bounded flows have corroborated the coexistence of wall-attached
eddies, whose statistical features are predicted through Townsend's attached-eddy …

Combination of meteorological reanalysis data and stochastic simulation for modelling wind generation variability

M Koivisto, GM Jónsdóttir, P Sørensen, K Plakas… - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
As installed wind generation capacities increase, there is a need to model variability in wind
generation in detail to analyse its impacts on power systems. Utilization of meteorological …

The Global Atlas for Siting Parameters project: Extreme wind, turbulence, and turbine classes

XG Larsén, N Davis, Á Hannesdóttir, M Kelly… - Wind …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Summary The Global Atlas for Siting Parameters project compiles a suite of models into a
complex modeling system, uses up‐to‐date global datasets, and creates global atlases of …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of grid and spectral nudging on the variance of the near-surface wind speed

CL Vincent, AN Hahmann - Journal of Applied Meteorology …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
Grid and spectral nudging are effective ways of preventing drift from large-scale weather
patterns in regional climate models. However, the effect of nudging on the wind speed …

Vertical coherence of turbulence in the atmospheric surface layer: connecting the hypotheses of Townsend and Davenport

D Krug, WJ Baars, N Hutchins, I Marusic - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2019 - Springer
Statistical descriptions of coherent flow motions in the atmospheric boundary layer have
many applications in the wind engineering community. For instance, the dynamical …

Toward understanding the physical link between turbines and microclimate impacts from in situ measurements in a large wind farm

DA Rajewski, ES Takle, JH Prueger… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Recent wind farm studies have revealed elevated nighttime surface temperatures but have
not validated physical mechanisms that create the observed effects. We report …