抄録
Using measurements from the FINO3 met mast in the North Sea, this study examines the accuracy of the wind turbine hub-height (80 m, in this study) wind speed which is estimated from in-situ 10m-height wind speed and the vertical wind speed profile simulated with the mesoscale model WRF. The estimated wind speed is verified with the wind speed measured at the height of 80 m on the meteorological mast. The result of verification shows that the estimated wind speed has a bias of 0.12 m/s (1.3 % of mean wind speed), a root-mean-square-error of 0.96 m/s (10.1 %), and a correlation coefficient of 0.97. These results indicate that the buoy-simulation hybrid method can be a promising approach for cost-effective and convenient offshore wind resource assessment.
