Journal article
Weather radars - The new eyes for offshore wind farms?
PJ Trombe, P Pinson, C Vincent, T Bøvith, NA Cutululis, C Draxl, G Giebel, AN Hahmann, NE Jensen, BP Jensen, NF Le, H Madsen, LB Pedersen, A Sommer
Wind Energy | Published : 2014
DOI: 10.1002/we.1659
Abstract
Offshore wind fluctuations are such that dedicated prediction and control systems are needed for optimizing the management of wind farms in real-time. In this paper, we present a pioneer experiment - Radar@Sea - in which weather radars are used for monitoring the weather at the Horns Rev offshore wind farm, in the North Sea. First, they enable the collection of meteorological observations at high spatio-temporal resolutions for enhancing the understanding of meteorological phenomena that drive wind fluctuations. And second, with the extended visibility they offer, they can provide relevant inputs to prediction systems for anticipating changes in the wind fluctuation dynamics, generating impr..
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Awarded by Danish Public Service Obligation (PSO) fund under the project 'Radar@Sea'
Funding Acknowledgements
This work was fully supported by the Danish Public Service Obligation (PSO) fund under the project 'Radar@Sea' (contract PSO 2009-1-0226), which is gratefully acknowledged. DONG Energy and Vattenfall are acknowledged for sharing the images generated by the LAWR and the wind data for the HR1 wind farm, respectively. Danish Hydrological Institute (DHI) is thanked for providing assistance with the images. The authors also express their gratitude to the radar meteorologists from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) for providing data from the Romo radar and sharing their expertise. Finally, we would like to thank Roland Lowe as well as two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments which helped improving the present manuscript.