A11H:
Improving Solar and Wind Forecasts along with Weather and Climate Prediction: Resolving One Atmosphere Together Posters
A11H:
Improving Solar and Wind Forecasts along with Weather and Climate Prediction: Resolving One Atmosphere Together Posters
Improving Solar and Wind Forecasts along with Weather and Climate Prediction: Resolving One Atmosphere Together Posters
Session ID#: 8537
Session Description:
Energy produced from renewable resources has dramatically increased in recent years with a large contribution from wind and solar. As solar and wind deployments increase, integrating energy from these renewable resources into the grid poses difficult challenges due to their intermittency which can be largely addressed by improving forecast accuracy. Advances in solar and wind forecasts require corresponding advances in fundamental atmospheric research challenges. For instance, better understanding of cloud-radiation interactions is essential to accurately forecast surface irradiance for solar energy and to predict climate feedbacks while accurate forecasts of wind energy require significant improvements in boundary layer research at differing time and spatial scales from Numerical Weather Prediction models. The focus of this session is to engage the broader atmospheric science community to identify and collaborate on areas of research that can simultaneously advance improvements to weather and climate prediction and the future of renewable energy with improved forecasts.
Primary Convener: Subhashree Mishra, Department of Energy Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States; American Association for the Advancement of Science Washington DC, AAAS S&T Policy Fellow, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners: Joel Cline, Department of Energy Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States and Sally A McFarlane, Department of Energy Germantown, Germantown, MD, United States
Chairs: Subhashree Mishra, Department of Energy Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States and Joel Cline, Department of Energy Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison: Subhashree Mishra, Department of Energy Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
Cross-Listed:
- GC - Global Environmental Change
- H - Hydrology
- SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:
0321 Cloud/radiation interaction [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
1922 Forecasting [INFORMATICS]
3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3337 Global climate models [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
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