GC43F
Renewable Energy: Wind I

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 13:40-15:40
2022-2024 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Andrew Clifton, National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO, United States, Melinda Marquis, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States and Christopher Clack, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Melinda Marquis, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Andrew Clifton, National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO, United States
13:40
Simulating wind energy resources with mesoscale models: Intercomparison of state-of-the-art models over Northern Europe (77504)
Andrea N Hahmann, Technical University of Denmark, Wind Energy, Roskilde, Denmark
13:55
How Long is Long Enough? The Effect of Interannual Correlation on Wind Resource Assessment (80564)
Nicola Bodini, University of Trento, Trento, Italy, Julie K Lundquist, U. of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Mark Handschy, Enduring Energy, LLC, Boulder, CO, United States and Dino Zardi, University of Trento, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Atmospheric Physics Group, Trento, Italy
14:25
WFIP2 – The Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project: Observing Systems And Case Studies (82965)
James M Wilczak1, Joel Cline2, Robert M Banta3, Leon Benjamin3, Stan Benjamin3, Larry K Berg4, Laura Bianco3, Jim Bickford5, Alan Brewer6, Aditya Choukulkar7, Kirk Clawson8, Andrew Clifton9, David R. Cook10, Irina Djalalova6, Harindra Fernando11, Katja Friedrich12, Jaymes Kenyon6, Branko Kosovic13, Clark W King1, Melinda Marquis6, James R McCaa14, Kathleen McCaffrey6, Joseph B Olson12, Yelena L Pichugina15, Justin Sharp, William J Shaw4, Kyle Wade5, Sonia Wharton17, Julie K Lundquist18, Kathleen O Lantz3 and Charles N. Long19, (1)NOAA Boulder, Earth Systems Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Department of Energy Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, (3)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (5)Vaisala Inc., Louisville, CO, United States, (6)NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)NOAA air resources laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, United States, (9)National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO, United States, (10)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (11)University of Notre Dame,, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (12)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (13)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (14)3TIER, Vaisala, Seattle, WA, United States, (15)Colorado University/NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (16)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (17)U. of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (18)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
14:40
The Role of Atmospheric Measurements in Wind Power Statistical Models (Invited) (81499)
Sonia Wharton1, Vera Bulaevskaya1, Zack Irons2, Jennifer Frances Newman3 and Andrew Clifton3, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Enel Green Power North America, Andover, MA, United States, (3)National Renewable Energy Laboratory, National Wind Technology Center, Golden, CO, United States
15:00
An Assessment of Wind Plant Complex Flows Using Advanced Doppler Radar Measurements (Invited) (82251)
John Schroeder, Brian Hirth, Scott Gunter, James Duncan and Jerry Guynes, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States
15:20
Wind Energy Resource Assessment for Airborne Wind Turbines (Invited) (61149)
Alden Woodrow, Google, Mountain View, CA, United States