Day-Ahead predictability of complex terrain flows for wind resource production: A case study of the Washoe Zephyr

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1343-1355

  Smith, Craig M ^a   Koračin, Darko ^a,b   Horvath, Kristian ^c  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^c METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Complex terrain; Diurnal effects; Mesoscale forecasting; Mountain meteorology; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Valley mountain flows

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; ERRORS; LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; SPECTRAL DENSITY; WIND; WIND POWER;

COMPLEX TERRAINS; DIURNAL EFFECTS; MESOSCALE FORECASTING; MOUNTAIN METEOROLOGIES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; VALLEY/MOUNTAIN FLOWS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMPLEX TERRAIN; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; VALLEY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

NEVADA; UNITED STATES; WASHOE COUNTY;

EID: 84919684683     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-14-00021.1     Document Type: Article

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