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Meteorological Effects on Wind Energy Generation |
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Wind power promises to play a greater role in domestic energy production in upcoming years. NOAA and the University of Colorado are investigating several aspects of the relationship between meteorology and wind energy efficiency, reliability, and practical utility as a significant source of domestic power. Research topics in this area include improving the prediction of wind characteristics at wind power sites; assessing and characterizing sites for wind generation; understanding impacts of local phenomena such as turbulence or low level jets on turbine efficiency and reliability; characterizing interactions among co-located wind turbines; and assessing the dependence of wind resources on climatological factors such as ENSO, the PDO, etc. Opportunities include development and use of state-of-the-art forecast models, participation in measurement programs involving advanced observational techniques such as lidar and tethered-lifting boundary-layer sounding systems, research into new instrumentation for investigating small scale atmospheric phenomena, and analysis of long-term climate data sets and models. |
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