GC42B:
Renewable Energy II

Session ID#: 5205

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3001 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Scott C James, Baylor University, Geosciences and Mechanical Engineering, Waco, TX, 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:

Modulation of the Global Wind Resource by the El-Nino (17070)
Udaya Bhaskar Gunturu1,2, Chak Man Andrew Yip1 and Georgiy L Stenchikov1, (1)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Characterization of Ambient Offshore Turbulence Intensity from Analysis of Nine Offshore Meteorological Masts in Northern Europe (29749)
Daniel A Pollak1,2, Nicolai G Nygaard3, Miriam Marchante Jimémez3, Rozenn Wagner4 and Ameya Sathe4, (1)Technical University of Denmark, Wind Energy, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (2)European Wind Energy Masters Program, Delft, Netherlands, (3)DONG Energy, Wind Assessment & Layout, Skærbæk, Denmark, (4)Technical University of Denmark, Wind Energy, Risø, Denmark
Establishing a Long-term 30 Year Global Solar Resource at 10 km Resolution: Preliminary Results From Test Processing and Continuing Plans (Invited) (7415)
Paul W Stackhouse Jr1, Jennifer Colleen Mikovitz2, Stephen J Cox3, Taiping Zhang3, Richard Perez4, James Schlemmer4, Manajit Sengupta5 and Kenneth R Knapp6, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)State University of New York/University of Albany, Atmospheric Science, Albany, NY, United States, (5)National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, CO, United States, (6)National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, United States
Operational Solar Forecasting System for DNI and GHI for Horizons Covering 5 Minutes to 72 Hours (Invited) (6669)
Carlos F Coimbra, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Advances in Solar Power Forecasting (Invited) (9104)
Sue Ellen Haupt1, Branko Kosovic2 and Sheldon Drobot1, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University, Ralph O'Connor Sustainable Energy Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States
Improvements in Satellite-Derived Short-Term Insolation Forecasting: Statistical Comparisons, Challenges for Advection-Based Forecasts, and New Techniques (25597)
Matthew A Rogers, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Steven D Miller, Colorado State Univ-CIRA, Fort Collins, United States, John M Haynes, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, Andrew K Heidinger, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI, United States, Sue Ellen Haupt, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Manajit Sengupta, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, CO, United States
 Developing the Next-Generation National Solar Radiation Data Base (NSRDB) (Invited) (26002)
Manajit Sengupta, Aron Habte, Peter Gotseff, Anthony Lopez and Andrew Weekley, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, CO, United States
Temporal Variability of Surface Solar Irradiance as a Function of Satellite-retrieved Cloud (Invited) (26003)
Manajit Sengupta1, Laura M Hinkelman2 and Aron Habte1, (1)National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, CO, United States, (2)Univ of WA-JISAO, Seattle, WA, United States