Simultaneous nested modeling from the synoptic scale to the LES scale for wind energy applications

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 308-319

  Liu, Yubao ^a   Warner, Tom ^a   Liu, Yuewei ^a   Vincent, Claire ^b   Wu, Wanli ^a   Mahoney, Bill ^a   Swerdlin, Scott ^a   Parks, Keith ^c   Boehnert, Jennifer ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Xcel Energy   (United States)

Author keywords

4D data assimilation; LES; Multiscale modeling; NWP; Wind energy; WRF

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MIXING; WIND POWER;

ADDITIONAL EXPERIMENTS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA ASSIMILATION ALGORITHMS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; MULTI-SCALE MODELING; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; REAL-TIME FORECASTING; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79955036334     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jweia.2011.01.013     Document Type: Article

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