Improving Wind Energy Forecasting through Numerical Weather Prediction Model Development

Joseph B. Olson; Jaymes S. Kenyon; Irina Djalalova; Laura Bianco; David D. Turner; Yelena Pichugina; Aditya Choukulkar; Michael D. Toy; John M. Brown; Wayne M. Angevine; Elena Akish; Jian Wen Bao; Pedro Jimenez; Branko Kosovic; Katherine A. Lundquist; Caroline Draxl; Julie K. Lundquist; Jim McCaa; Katherine McCaffrey; Kathy Lantz; Chuck Long; Jim Wilczak; Robert Banta; Melinda Marquis; Stephanie Redfern; Larry K. Berg; Will Shaw; Joel Cline

doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0040.1

Improving Wind Energy Forecasting through Numerical Weather Prediction Model Development

Joseph B. Olson
, Jaymes S. Kenyon
, Irina Djalalova
, Laura Bianco
, David D. Turner
, Yelena Pichugina
, Aditya Choukulkar
, Michael D. Toy
, John M. Brown
, Wayne M. Angevine
, Elena Akish
, Jian Wen Bao
, Pedro Jimenez
, Branko Kosovic
, Katherine A. Lundquist
, Caroline Draxl
, Julie K. Lundquist
, Jim McCaa
, Katherine McCaffrey
, Kathy Lantz

Chuck Long, Jim Wilczak, Robert Banta, Melinda Marquis, Stephanie Redfern, Larry K. Berg, Will Shaw, Joel Cline

National Wind Technology Center

University of Colorado Boulder
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Science and Technology Corporation, Hampton
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Vaisala
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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Abstract

Operational numerical weather prediction models are being developed to improve wind energy forecasts by leveraging a multiscale dataset from the Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project field campaign in the U.S. Northwest.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	2201-2220
Number of pages	20
Journal	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Volume	100
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0040.1 https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0040.1
State	Published - 2019

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© 2019 American Meteorological Society.

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Keywords

complex terrain
forecasting
model development
numerical weather prediction
WFIP2
wind energy

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Olson, J. B., Kenyon, J. S., Djalalova, I., Bianco, L., Turner, D. D., Pichugina, Y., Choukulkar, A., Toy, M. D., Brown, J. M., Angevine, W. M., Akish, E., Bao, J. W., Jimenez, P., Kosovic, B., Lundquist, K. A., Draxl, C., Lundquist, J. K., McCaa, J., McCaffrey, K., ... Cline, J. (2019). Improving Wind Energy Forecasting through Numerical Weather Prediction Model Development. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100(11), 2201-2220. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0040.1, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0040.1

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