GC51C:
Renewable Energy: Wind, Solar, Marine, and Open Topics I Posters

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Session ID#: 13208

Session Description:
The session will focus on the science, technology and policy issues of wave, current, and tidal energy conversion for electric utilities. Studies focusing on environmental effects of marine hydrokinetic energy devices (e.g., acoustic and electromagnetic influences to aquatic and benthic species, altered hydrodynamics, water quality, and sediment transport, or changes to currents, wave regimes, and tidal ranges), environmental monitoring, device performance evaluation, and resource assessment are of interest. Wave-energy converters will also be a focus. Studies in riverine environments are also appropriate. Assessment of policy or decision making associated with implementation of renewable energies are also welcome, but may be categorized into the Integration, Policy and Open Topics session.
Primary Convener:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Maria L Beninati, Bucknell University, Mechanical Engineering, Lewisburg, PA, United States, Andrew Clifton, National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO, United States and Scott C James, Baylor University, Departments of Geology and Mechanical Engineering, Waco, TX, United States
Chairs:  Scott C James, Baylor University, Departments of Geology and Mechanical Engineering, Waco, TX, United States and Elizabeth C Weatherhead, U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

1694 Instruments and techniques [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1699 General or miscellaneous [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Replacing Burning of Fossil Fuels with Solar Cell and Wind Energy: How Important and How Soon? (118202)
Larry Partain1, Richard T Hansen2, Shirley F Hansen2, Dirk Bennett1, Allan Newlands1 and BridgePoint Consortium, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Retired, Washington, DC, United States
The Impact of a Potential Shale Gas Development in Germany and the United Kingdom on Pollutant and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (133256)
Lindsey Weger, Lorenzo Cremonese, Marianne Pascale Bartels and Tim M Butler, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany
Modelling impacts of second generation bioenergy production on Ecosystem Services in Europe (128515)
Dagmar Nadja Henner, University of Graz, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, Graz, Austria, Pete Smith, University of Aberdeen, Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, Christian Davies, Shell Houston, Houston, TX, United States and Niall P McNamara, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Performance of Optimization Heuristics for the Operational Planning of Multi-energy Storage Systems (120652)
Jannik Haas1, Jonas Schradi1 and Wolfgang Nowak2, (1)University of Stuttgart, Stochastic Simulation and Safety Research for Hydrosystems (IWS/SC SimTech), Stuttgart, Germany, (2)University of Stuttgart, Department of Stochastic Simulation and Safety Research for Hydrosystems (IWS/SC SimTech), Stuttgart, Germany
Challenges for Implementing Salinity Gradient Energy Power Plants at River Mouths (174773)
Oscar Andrés Alvarez-Silva, Universidad del Norte, Department of Physics and Geosciences, Puerto Colombia, Colombia, Andres Fernando Osoria Arias, Universidad Nacional, Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia and Christian Winter, MARUM - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Trends in Solar energy Driven Vertical Ground Source Heat Pump Systems in Sweden - An Analysis Based on the Swedish Well Database (130930)
Kristina Juhlin, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden and Signhild Gehlin, Swedish Center for Geoenergy, Lund, Sweden
Monitoring potential ecological impacts of a utility-scale photovoltaic panel facility on a creosote-bursage plant community (132177)
Lorenzo Apodaca and Dale A Devitt, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States
Environmental factors influence for pho-voltaic solar energy efficiency (189335)
Elnaz Hassanpour Adeh, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States and Chad W Higgins, Oregon State University, Biological & Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
A framework for investigating the interactions between climate, dust, solar power generation and water desalination processes in Desert Climate (162032)
Mohamed S Siam1, Samar Alqatari2, Hamed D Ibrahim3, Rawan A. AlAloula2, Mohamad Alrished2, Adnan AlSaati2 and Elfatih A B Eltahir4, (1)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Center for Complex Engineering Systems, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, (3)MIT, Cambridge, United States, (4)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
The influence of mineral dust particles on the energy output of photovoltaic cells (137146)
Carolin Roesch1, Elfatih A B Eltahir2, Zeyad Al-awwad3, Samar Alqatari3, Daniel J Cziczo1 and Michael Roesch1, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, (3)King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Center for Complex Engineering Systems, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Estimation of UV index in the clear-sky using OMI PROFOZ and AERONET data (173503)
Hana Lee, Korea Meteorological Institute, Seoul, South Korea, Jhoon Kim, Yonsei University, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, Seoul, South Korea and Ukkyo Jeong, UMD ESSIC, College Park, MD, United States
Fusing Satellite-Derived Irradiance and Point Measurements through Optimal Interpolation (148550)
Antonio Lorenzo1, Matthias Morzfeld2, William Holmgren1 and Alexander Cronin3, (1)University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Department of Mathematics, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Department of Physics, Tucson, AZ, United States
Satellite-Based All-Sky and Clear-Sky Direct Normal Irradiance: Application of a Global-to-Beam Model to the NASA GEWEX SRB Global Horizontal Irradiance and Validation against the BSRN Data (151645)
Taiping Zhang, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, United States, Paul W Stackhouse Jr, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and David J Westberg, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States
The method for categorization of variation in surface solar irradiance using cloud properties based on satellite observations (172529)
Takeshi Watanabe and Yu Oishi, Tokai University, Tokyo, Japan
Estimation of the solar energy potential in Egypt by developing high resolution solar Atlas and nowcasting service in real time (128327)
Panagiotis G Kosmopoulos1,2, Stelios Kazadzis3, Michael Taylor2, Hesham Mohamed El-Askary4, Panagiotis Raptis1, Iphigenia Keramitsoglou5 and Christos T. Kiranoudis6, (1)National Observatory of Athens, Institute for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development (IERSD), Athens, Greece, (2)Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics, Thessaloniki, Greece, (3)World Radiation center, Physikalisch-Metorologisches Observatorium Davos (PMOD), Davos, Switzerland, (4)Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States, (5)National Observatory of Athens, Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS), Athens, Greece, (6)National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Study for the selection of optimal site in northeastern, Mexico for wind power generation using genetic algorithms. (159819)
Tomas Gonzalez, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, Alejandro Ruvalcaba, UNAM Posgrado en Ciencias de la Tierra, Mexico, Mexico and Lopez Oliver, IIIDSES Universidad Ibero, Mexico, Mexico
Classifying Vertical Wind Speed Profiles for Offshore Wind Resource and Available Power Assessment (134898)
Alexandra St Pe1, Shelbi Tippet1, Scott Daniel Rabenhorst2 and Ruben Delgado3, (1)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)US Naval Research Laboratory, Middle Atmosphere Physics, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Hampton University, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States
Geophysical Mapping of the South Carolina Atlantic Offshore for Wind Energy Development (182837)
Duke Brantley1, Camelia C Knapp1, Bradley Battista2, Paul T Gayes3, James H. Knapp1 and Scott M White4, (1)University of South Carolina Columbia, Earth Sciences and Resources Institute, Columbia, SC, United States, (2)EnerGeo Solutions, West Columbia, SC, United States, (3)Coastal Carolina Univ, Burroughs and Chapin Center for Marine and Wetland Studies, Conway, United States, (4)University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, United States
Power-Production Diagnostic Tools for Low-Density Wind Farms with Applications to Wake Steering (159566)
Eugene S Takle1, Daryl Herzmann2, Daniel A Rajewski1, Julie K Lundquist3 and Michael E Rhodes4, (1)Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States, (2)Iowa State University, Agronomy, Ames, IA, United States, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, United States, (4)U. of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
A hybrid wind farm parameterization for mesoscale and climate models (142231)
Yang Pan, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and Cristina L Archer, University of Delaware, Center for Research in Wind, Newark, DE, United States
A Wave Resource Assessment for Yakutat, Alaska (184904)
Paul Xavier Duvoy1, Timothy Tschetter1 and Jeremy Kasper2, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States
Unstructured-grid Modeling for Wave Energy Resource Assessment (136491)
Wei-Cheng Wu1, Zhaoqing Yang1 and Taiping Wang2, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Seattle, United States
Improving an Assessment of Tidal Stream Energy Resource for Anchorage, Alaska (179633)
Kevin A Haas, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States and Tongtong Xu, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States
Marine Hydrokinetic Energy from Western Boundary Currents (166745)
John Bane, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Ruoying He, North Carolina State University, Dept. Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, United States, Mike Muglia, University of North Carolina Coastal Studies Insitute, Wanchese, United States, Caroline Lowcher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, United States, Yanlin Gong, North Carolina University, Raleigh, NC, United States, Sara Haines, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, United States and James VanZwieten, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, United States
Coherent Structure Dynamics and Turbulent Effects of Horizontal Axis Marine Energy Devices (157493)
Daniel Ignacio Gajardo, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, Cristian R Escauriaza, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Santiago, Chile and David Ingram, University of Edinburgh, School of Engineering, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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