A11H:
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:

Improving Forecasts of Cumulus: An Intersection of the Renewable Energy and Climate Science Communities (Invited) (60605)
Larry K Berg1, William I Gustafson Jr1, Evgueni Kassianov1 and Charles N. Long2, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
WRF-Solar: Upgrading the WRF representation of the aerosol-cloud-radiation feedbacks in support of solar energy forecasting (Invited) (61480)
Pedro Angel Jimenez1, Sue Ellen Haupt1, Joshua Hacker2 and Jimy Dudhia3, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Jupiter, Boulder, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Laboratory, Boulder, United States
A Two-Dimensional Gridded Solar Forecasting System using Situation-Dependent Blending of Multiple Weather Models (66390)
Siyuan Lu1, Youngdeok Hwang1, Xiaoyan Shao1 and Hendrik Hamann2, (1)IBM Yorktown Heights, Yorktown Heights, NY, United States, (2)IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, United States
Aerosol Deposition and Solar Panel Performance (84442)
William P Arnott1, Samuel J. Taylor1, Alex Rollings1, Jordan Parks1, Jim Barnard2 and Heather Holmes1, (1)University of Nevada Reno, Atmospheric Sciences Program, Department of Physics, Reno, NV, United States, (2)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States
Production of 3D wind field near the surface using WRF and MUKLIMO (68936)
Lee Sukjun, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
A Theoretical Framework for Utilizing Long-Term Measurements of Radiation and Clouds for Solar Energy Research (Invited) (61081)
Yangang Liu, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States and Yu Xie, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, CO, United States
A Standardized Based Approach to Managing Atmosphere Studies For Wind Energy Research (82871)
Eric Stephan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, UNITED STATES and Chitra Sivaraman, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, United States
Nonlinear and Nonparametric Stochastic Model to Represent Uncertainty of Renewable Generation in Operation and Expansion Planning Studies of Electrical Energy Systems (82212)
Julio Alberto, PSR, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil and Tainá Martins, UFRJ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

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