92nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (January 22-26, 2012)

Poster Session 7 Energy Supply/Demand Fundamentals Focused on Short Range Forecasting

Wednesday, 25 January 2012: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Hall E (New Orleans Convention Center )
Host: Third Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Cochairs:  Julie K. Lundquist, Univ. of Colorado; John Manobianco, MESO, Inc. and Catherine A. Finley, WindLogics Inc.
Papers:
 
569
Probabilistic Solar Forecasting in California Coastal Areas Using Post-Processed NWP
Patrick Mathiesen, Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. M. Brown and J. Kleissl

 
571
On-Going Utilization and Evaluation of a Coupled Weather and Outage Prediction for Electric Distribution Operations
Lloyd Treinish, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and A. P. Praino, J. Cipriani, B. Hertell, and R. Derech

Poster PDF (8.7 MB)

 
572
An Investigation of Boundary Layer Parameterizations in a Simulated Low-Level Jet Observed During the Wind Forecast Improvement Project
Joseph B. Olson, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Brown, R. M. Banta, Y. L. Pichugina, J. M. Wilczak, J. D. Mirocha, and C. A. Finley

 
573
Evaluation of NOAA's HRRR Model Forecast Hub-Height Winds
William Pendergrass, NOAA/OAR/ARL/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN; and C. A. Vogel and R. J. Dobosy

 
574
Multi-Model Ensemble Forecasting in the Energy Weather Industry
Dr. Daniel B. Kirk-Davidoff, MDA Information Systems, Inc (EarthSat Wx), Gaithersburg, MD; and C. C. Cassidy, R. J. Much, and L. J. Heitkemper

 
575
An Initial Analysis of the Impact of Targeted Observations, and Advanced Modeling and Data Assimilation Techniques on Wind Forecast Performance During the WFIP Experiment
John W. Zack, MESO, Inc., Troy, NY; and J. Manobianco, E. J. Natenberg, S. H. Young, T. Melino, G. E. Van Knowe, J. M. Freedman, J. M. Wilczak, and K. L. Clawson

 
576
Identification and Prediction of Icing Conditions Which Impact Wind Turbine Power Production
Frank McDonough, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Imbler, G. Weiner, and S. E. Haupt

 
577
The Wind Forecasting Improvement Project (WFIP): Description, Goals, and Preliminary Results From the Southern Study Area
Jeffrey M. Freedman, AWS Truepower LLC, Albany, NY; and D. E. Hanley, J. W. Zack, J. Manobianco, C. D'Annunzio, J. M. Wilczak, J. L. Schroeder, B. C. Ancell, K. A. Brewster, S. Basu, V. Banunarayanan, and K. Orwig

 
578
Wind Analysis and Forecasting At Wind Farms with An Ultra High Resolution and Advanced 4-D Data Assimilation WRF Modeling System
Linlin Pan, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. Liu, W. Cheng, G. Roux, Y. Wu, S. W. lee, Y. J. choi, W. Wu, B. Kosovic, G. Wiener, S. Haupt, and B. Mahoney

 
579
NASA Products to Enhance Energy Utility Load Forecasting
Glynis Lough, Battelle, Arlington, VA; and E. Zell, J. Engel-Cox, Y. Fungard, G. J. Jedlovec, P. W. Stackhouse Jr., R. Homer, and S. Bliley
Manuscript (70.5 kB)

Poster PDF (666.2 kB)

 
580
A Comparison of WRF Simulated Low-Level Shear to Observations in the 10-80 m Layer
William A. Gallus Jr., Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and A. Robertson, R. Showers, and A. J. Deppe

 
581
Improvements in Real Time Wind Power Forecasting
Julia M. Pearson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Wiener, S. Linden, W. Myers, and B. Lambi

 
582
Solar Power Forecasting—Technology and Field Performance Evaluation
Vlad Kostylev, Green Power Labs Inc., Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and A. Pavlovski
Manuscript (752.2 kB)