Joint Session 7 |
| | Wind Energy (Joint between the First Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy and the 8th Users Forum on Weather and Climate Impacts) |
| | Chair: Jerry H. Crescenti, Iberdrola Renewables, Portland, OR
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| 3:30 PM | J7.1 | Reducing wind energy forecast uncertainty through improved measurements and modeling
Robert M. Banta, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and Y. L. Pichugina |
| 3:45 PM | J7.2 | Modeling the Atmospheric Boundary Layer for Wind Power 
Sue Ellen Haupt, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and F. J. Zajaczkowski and K. J. Schmehl |
| 4:00 PM | J7.3 | Using AWS-WeatherBug observations and the WRF-ARW model for wind energy applications
Elena Novakovskaia, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and H. Centola and L. A. Treinish |
| 4:15 PM | J7.4 | Gravity wave effects on wind farm efficiency
Ronald B. Smith, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
| 4:30 PM | J7.5 | Estimating threshold confidence for wind energy production
Ethan Cook, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Morrissey |
| 4:45 PM | J7.6 | Lidar measurements as an alternative to traditional anemometry in Wind Energy research
Yelena Pichugina, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Banta and N. D. Kelley |
| 5:00 PM | J7.7 | Applications of scanning Doppler Lidar for the wind energy industry
Rod Frehlich, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and N. D. Kelley |
| 5:15 PM | J7.8 | An examination of orthogonal expansions for estimating the wind power density function
Mark Morrissey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and E. Cook |