Session 1B |
| | Observations and Modeling Related to Renewable Energy Applications I |
| | Chair: William P. Mahoney, III, NCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 3:30 PM | 1B.1 | Validation of boundary-layer winds from WRF Mesoscale Forecasts with applications to wind energy forecasting 
Caroline Draxl, Risø DTU Technical University of Denmark, Roskilde, Denmark; and A. N. Hahmann, A. Peña, J. N. Nissen, and G. Giebel |
| 3:45 PM | 1B.2 | On the importance of accurate wind profile for wind power applications
Mark Zagar, Vestas Wind Systems, A/S, Randers, Denmark; and F. A. Tøgersen |
| 4:00 PM | 1B.3 | Improving 0 – 12h wind energy prediction by assimilating surface, met-tower, turbine nacelle anemometer, wind profiler and lidar wind observations using the NCAR WRF-RTFDDA model
 Recorded presentation
Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 4:15 PM | 1B.4 | Large-eddy simulation of wind-turbine wakes: Evaluation of turbine parameterizations
Fernando Porté-Agel, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; and Y. T. Wu, H. Lu, and L. Chamorro |
| 4:30 PM | 1B.5 | Turbulent flow over sinusoidal bumps and hills derived from large eddy simulations
Peter P. Sullivan, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. G. Patton and K. W. Ayotte |
| 4:45 PM | 1B.6 | Wind energy-related atmospheric boundary layer large-eddy simulation using OpenFOAM
Recorded presentation
Recorded presentation
Matthew J. Churchfield, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; and G. Vijayakumar, J. G. Brasseur, and P. J. Moriarty |
| 5:00 PM | 1B.7 | A coupled groundwater-atmospheric model for wind energy forecasting
Julie K. Lundquist, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Maxwell, J. D. Mirocha, S. G. Smith, C. S. Woodward, and A. F. B. Tompson |
| 5:15 PM | 1B.8 | Significance of mesoscale surface heterogeneity in wind speed forecasting
Song-Lak Kang, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and D. Lenschow, P. Sullivan, and P. Mininni |
| 5:30 PM | 1B.9 | Effects of thermal stability and incoming boundary-layer flow in the structure of wind turbine wake(s): a wind tunnel study
Leonardo Chamorro, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; and F. Porté-Agel |