Evaluating winds and vertical wind shear from Weather Research and Forecasting model forecasts using seven planetary boundary layer schemes

Wind Energy

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 39-55

  Draxl, Caroline ^a   Hahmann, Andrea N ^a   Peña, Alfredo ^a   Giebel, Gregor ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

boundary layer parameterizations; wind energy; wind power forecasting; wind shear; WRF

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; PARAMETERIZATION; SPEED; WIND; WIND POWER;

ATMOSPHERIC STATIC STABILITY; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; VALIDATION METHODOLOGIES; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WIND POWER FORECASTING; WIND RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; WIND SHEARS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOUNDARY LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

DENMARK;

EID: 84890569652     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.1555     Document Type: Article

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