GC42B:
Renewable Energy II

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Scott C James, Exponent, Inc., Water Resources Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-conveners:  Scott C James, Exponent, Inc., Water Resources Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, Jessica Lundin, Vaisala Inc., Louisville, CO, United States and Andrew Clifton, National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Modulation of the Global Wind Resource by the El-Nino
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
10:35 AM
 
Characterization of Ambient Offshore Turbulence Intensity from Analysis of Nine Offshore Meteorological Masts in Northern Europe
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
10:50 AM
 
Establishing a Long-term 30 Year Global Solar Resource at 10 km Resolution: Preliminary Results From Test Processing and Continuing Plans
Paul W Stackhouse1, Jennifer C Mikovitz2, Stephen J Cox2, Taiping Zhang2, Richard Perez3, James Schlemmer3, Manajit Sengupta4 and Kenneth Knapp5, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)State University of New York/University of Albany, Atmospheric Science, Albany, NY, United States, (4)National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, CO, United States, (5)National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, United States
11:05 AM
 
Operational Solar Forecasting System for DNI and GHI for Horizons Covering 5 Minutes to 72 Hours
Carlos F Coimbra, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
11:20 AM
 
Advances in Solar Power Forecasting
Sue Ellen Haupt, Branko Kosovic and Sheldon Drobot, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
11:35 AM
 
Improvements in Satellite-Derived Short-Term Insolation Forecasting: Statistical Comparisons, Challenges for Advection-Based Forecasts, and New Techniques
Matthew A Rogers, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Steven D Miller, Colorado State Univ-CIRA, Fort Collins, CO, United States, John M Haynes, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, 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
11:50 AM
 
 Developing the Next-Generation National Solar Radiation Data Base (NSRDB)
Manajit Sengupta, Aron Habte, Peter Gotseff, Anthony Lopez and Andrew Weekley, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, CO, United States
12:05 PM
 
Temporal Variability of Surface Solar Irradiance as a Function of Satellite-retrieved Cloud
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