Session: Offshore Wind Resource Assessment I (104th AMS Annual Meeting)

Wednesday, 31 January 2024: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM

347/348 (The Baltimore Convention Center)

Host: 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy

Cochairs:

Thomas J. Kilpatrick and Angel McCoy

Papers:

4:30 PM

12.1

Using Coupled Atmosphere / Ocean Simulations to Evaluate Wind Resource off the U.S. West Coast

Brian J. Gaudet, PNNL, Richland, WA; and K. Hinson, Y. Liu, R. Hetland, R. Krishnamurthy, G. Xia, J. D. Mirocha, B. Kosovic, T. W. Juliano, and E. A. Hendricks

4:45 PM

12.2

Winds, Clouds, and Rain Over the Central and Northern California Offshore Wind Lease Areas

Lee Miller, PNNL, Richland, WA; and V. P. Ghate, A. Mitra, J. lee, V. Sinnott, and R. Krishnamurthy

5:00 PM

12.3

Assessing the Impact of Marine Clouds on Offshore Wind offshore the US West Coast in a Changing Climate

Sue Ellen Haupt, PhD, Atmospheric Science, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO; and M. S. Bukovsky, PhD, T. W. Juliano, S. McGinnis, A. Mitra, and R. Krishnamurthy

5:15 PM

12.4

Quantifying observational relevance and uncertainty along the US East Coast using a suite of floating LiDAR buoys

Katie Brennan, TGS, Seattle, WA; and S. J. Eichelberger, PhD, P. Khapikova, A. Sansal, and B. Lasscock

5:30 PM

12.5

Identification of Climatological Representative Days in the Mid-Atlantic for High-Fidelity Offshore Wind Energy Modeling

Andrew C. Kumler, NREL = National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Arvada, CO; and J. K. Lundquist, G. Deskos, and W. Musial

5:45 PM

12.6

Offshore Wind Profile Maps Developed using Machine Learning Techniques over the USA Coastal Region

James Joseph Frech, ESSIC/CISESS University of Maryland, Silver Spring, MD; and K. Saha, P. D. Lavin, and H. M. Zhang