Assessing atmospheric stability and its impacts on rotor-disk wind characteristics at an onshore wind farm

Wind Energy

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 525-546

  Wharton, Sonia ^a   Lundquist, Julie K ^b,c  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

planetary boundary layer; stability; turbulence intensity; wind energy; wind shear

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; REMOTE SENSING; STABILITY; TURBULENCE; WIND; WIND POWER;

ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING; METEOROLOGICAL TOWER; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; SOUND DETECTION AND RANGING; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; TURBULENCE KINETIC ENERGY; WIND SHEARS;

ONSHORE WIND FARMS;

ANEMOMETER; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BOUNDARY LAYER; DATA SET; KINETIC ENERGY; METEOROLOGY; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; STABILIZATION; TURBULENCE; WIND POWER; WIND SHEAR; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84857976828     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.483     Document Type: Article

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