The selective dynamical downscaling method for extreme-wind atlases

Wind Energy

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1167-1182

  Larsén, Xiaoli Guo ^a   Badger, Jake ^a   Hahmann, Andrea N ^a   Mortensen, Niels G ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

extreme wind atlas; post processing; selective dynamical downscaling; storms; WRF

Indexed keywords

STORMS;

DATA VALIDATION; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; EXTREME WINDS; HOMOGENEOUS SURFACES; MESOSCALE MODELLING; POST PROCESSING; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; STANDARD CONDITIONS;

WIND;

ATLAS; DATA ACQUISITION; DOWNSCALING; MODELING; ROUGHNESS; STORM;

EID: 84888329123     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.1544     Document Type: Article

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