GC41H:
Renewable Energy I

Session ID#: 3383

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3001 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Jessica Lundin, Vaisala Inc., Louisville, CO, United States
Primary Convener:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
Co-conveners:  Scott C James, Baylor University, Geosciences and Mechanical Engineering, Waco, TX, United States, Jessica Lundin, Vaisala Inc., Louisville, CO, United States and Andrew Clifton, National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • H - Hydrology
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0399 General or miscellaneous [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
1610 Atmosphere [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

GC41H-01
Modelling and Optimization of Nannochloropsis and Chlorella Growth for Various Locations and Seasons (Invited) (6162)
Patricia Elaine Gharagozloo, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
GC41H-02
Modeling Heteroscedasticity of Wind Speed Time Series in the United Arab Emirates (4599)
Hye Yeon Kim1, Prashanth Reddy Marpu2, Taha Ouarda1 and Institute Center for Water and Environment (iWATER), Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, (1)Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, (2)Masdar Institute, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
GC41H-04
Wind Resource Assessment in the Middle East (9180)
Chak Man Andrew Yip, Udaya Bhaskar Gunturu and Georgiy L Stenchikov, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
GC41H-05
Advances in Optimizing Weather Driven Electric Power Systems. (Invited) (9613)
Christopher Clack1, Alexander E MacDonald2, Anneliese Alexander3, Adam D Dunbar2, Yuanfu Xie2 and James M Wilczak2, (1)University of Colorado, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA Boulder, Earth Systems Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
GC41H-06
Could Crop Roughness Impact the Wind Resource at Agriculturally Productive Wind Farm Sites? (9633)
Brian J Vanderwende, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States and Julie K Lundquist, University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, United States
GC41H-07
The impacts of land-use change from grassland to bioenergy Short Rotation Coppice (SRC) willow on the crop and ecosystem greenhouse gas balance (12678)
Gail Taylor, University of California Davis, Davis, United States, Zoe M Harris, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, Giorgio Alberti, University of Udine, Udine, Italy, Marta Dondini, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom and Pete Smith, University of Aberdeen, Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
GC41H-08
Toward Improved Off-Shore Wind Predictions by Combining Observations with Models through State Estimation – An Analysis of Marine Boundary Layer Parameterizations (14173)
Branko Kosovic1, Luca Delle Monache2, Joshua Hacker3, Jared A Lee4, Francois C Vandenberghe2, Yonghui Wu2, Andrew Clifton5, Sam Hawkins6, Jesper Nissen6 and Dorita Rostkier-Edelstein7, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Ralph O'Connor Sustainable Energy Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Jupiter, Boulder, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO, United States, (6)Vattenfall, Solna, Sweden, (7)Israel Institute for Biological Research, Department of Environmental Physics, Environmental Sciences Division, Ness Ziona, Israel
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