89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Joint Session 22: Modeling Tools for Energy Production in Urban and Complex Terrain

Thursday, 15 January 2009: 11:00 AM-12:15 PM
Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Chairs:  Jon Davis, Chesapeake Energy Corporation and Julie K. Lundquist, University of Colorado at Boulder
Papers:
 
J22.1
Comparing the challenges of the wind resource analysis of urban versus non-urban wind farms

  11:15 AM
Application of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model for the planning and operation of wind plants
Larry K. Berg, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. D. Fast, J. E. Flaherty, W. I. Gustafson Jr., and W. J. Shaw

  11:30 AM
Operational wind generation forecasting
Russell L. Bigley, Xcel Energy, Littleton, CO

  11:45 AM
Research needs for wind resource characterization
William J. Shaw, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. Schreck and J. K. Lundquist

  12:00 PM
Nesting large-eddy simulations within mesoscale simulations for urban and complex terrain
Julie K. Lundquist, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO; and J. D. Mirocha, F. K. Chow, B. Kosovic, and K. A. Lundquist

  12:15 PM
  12:30 PM
Undergraduate forecasting and nowcasting for a major urban public utility
Brian J. Cerruti, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ; and S. G. Decker, L. A. Bowers, W. K. Wittman, and J. Carlson