Development and Verification of the Wide-area Long-term High-resolution Wind Energy Simulation System
2007 Volume 31 Issue 4 Pages 115-122
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2007 Volume 31 Issue 4 Pages 115-122
A coupled MM5-MASCON system is developed for wind energy resource estimation andprediction with varying scales from mesoscale to microscale. MM5-MASCON is able to provide high-resolution images of the wind speed and wind direction at hub heights. The bias error of long-term mean wind speeds between model and observation is reduced to within 1.0 m/s, which is a practical level for wind energy resource assessment. Additionally, it is found that the computational cost is quite low enough to be applied to microscale wind power estimation.
