Journal article
Wind climate estimation using WRF model output: Method and model sensitivities over the sea
AN Hahmann, CL Vincent, A Peña, J Lange, CB Hasager
International Journal of Climatology | Published : 2015
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4217
Abstract
High-quality tall mast and wind lidar measurements over the North and Baltic Seas are used to validate the wind climatology produced from winds simulated by the Weather, Research and Forecasting (WRF) model in analysis mode. Biases in annual mean wind speed between model and observations at heights around 100m are smaller than 3.2% at offshore sites, except for those that are affected by the wake of a wind farm or the coastline. These biases are smaller than those obtained by using winds directly from the reanalysis. We study the sensitivity of the WRF-simulated wind climatology to various model setup parameters. The results of the year-long sensitivity simulations show that the long-term me..
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Awarded by EU projects NORSE-WInD
Awarded by South Baltic Offer - South Baltic Offshore Wind Energy Regions
Awarded by Danish Council for Independent Research - Technology and Production Sciences
Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the EU projects NORSE-WInD (contract TREN-FP7-219048) and South Baltic Offer - South Baltic Offshore Wind Energy Regions (contract WTPB.02.02.00-56-004/09). The contribution of the second author was supported by the Danish Council for Independent Research - Technology and Production Sciences (Case number 10-093196). We would like to thank DONG energy, Vattenfall and the German Federal Environment Ministry (BMU) for sharing many of the observations used in the validation. We would also like to thank Anna Rutgersson (Uppsala University) for making the Ostergarnsholm data available.