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

Session 13 Energy Supply/Demand Fundamentals Focused on Short Range Forecasting Part I

Wednesday, 25 January 2012: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room 345 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Host: Third Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair:  Julie K. Lundquist, Univ. of Colorado
Papers:
  11:00 AM
Evolution of a Short Term Wind Energy Forecasting System
William Myers, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Wiener and K. Parks
  11:15 AM
Enhancing Short Term Wind Energy Forecasting for Improved Utility Operations: The Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP)
James M. Wilczak, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Benjamin, M. Marquis, S. Calvert, W. J. Shaw, C. A. Finley, J. M. Freedman, and A. D. Stern
  11:30 AM
Feature-Based Verification for the High-Resolution NCAR-Xcel WRF-RTFDDA Wind Ramp Forecasts
William Y. Y. Cheng, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. Liu, B. Mahoney, T. Warner, and B. Nagarajan
  11:45 AM
Observation-Based Wind-Power Ramp Forecast System
Seth Linden, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Haupt and B. Myers