Wind Resource Assessment and Micro-siting Science and Engineering [Hardcover]

• Focuses on wind analysis for wind plant siting, design and analysis
• Addresses all aspects from atmospheric boundary layer characteristics, to wind resource measurement systems, uncertainties in measurements, computations and analyses, to plant performance
• Covers the basics of atmospheric science through to turbine siting, turbine responses, and to environmental impacts
• Contents can be used for research purposes as well as a go-to reference guide, written from the perspective of a hands-on engineer
• Topic is of ongoing major international interest for its economic and environmental benefits

Introduction xv

Acknowledgments xvii

About the Author xix

List of Symbols xxi

1 Introduction 1

1.1 Wind Resource Assessment as a Discipline 2

1.2 Micro-siting Briefing 2

1.3 Cascade of Wind Regime 3

1.3.1 Global Scale Wind Regime 3

1.3.2 Synoptic Scale Wind Regime 5

1.3.3 Meso-scale Wind Regime 5

1.3.4 Local Scale Wind Regime 6

1.4 Uncertainty of Wind Resource 7

1.5 Scope of the Book 9

References 9

2 Concepts and Analytical Tools 11

2.1 Surface Roughness and Wind Profile 11

2.1.1 Roughness Length 11

2.1.2 Vertical Wind Profile 14

2.1.3 Internal Boundary Layer 15

2.1.4 Roughness Change Model 16

2.1.5 Displacement Height 17

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