Handbook of Wind Resource Assessment

• Autore: Watson Simon
• Pubblicazione: Newark : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2023; ©2023
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (331 pages)
• Disciplina: 551.51/80287
• Soggetto topico: Winds - Speed - Measurement; Wind power - Measurement
• Soggetto non controllato: Physics; Science
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Early Wind Measurements -- 1.2 The Need for Wind Resource Assessment -- 1.3 A Brief Overview of the Wind Resource Assessment Process -- 1.4 Layout of this Book -- References -- 2 The Atmospheric Boundary Layer -- 2.1 The Structure of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer -- 2.2 The Surface Layer Wind Speed Profile -- 2.3 The Gradient and Geostrophic Wind -- 2.4 The Ekman Layer -- References -- 3 Measurement -- 3.1 History of Wind Speed Measurement 3.2 Types of Measurement -- 3.3 Terrestrial Measurements -- 3.4 Remote Sensing -- 3.5 Meteorological Measurement Stations -- 3.6 The Effect of Climatic Conditions on Wind Speed Measurements -- References -- 4 Wind Speed Variability and Distributions -- 4.1 Power Spectrum -- 4.2 The Spectral Gap -- 4.3 Long-term Variation -- 4.4 Synoptic Scale Weibull Wind Speed Distributions -- 4.5 Weibull Parameter Variation with Height -- 4.6 Synoptic Scale Wind Direction Distributions -- 4.7 Turbulent Scale Distributions -- 4.8 Extreme Value Statistics -- References -- 5 Numerical Modelling 5.1 The Governing Equations -- 5.2 Microscale Models -- 5.3 Mesoscale Models -- 5.4 Global Models -- 5.5 Model Chains -- 5.6 The Importance of Atmospheric Stability -- References -- 6 Wind Resource Estimation in Complex Terrain, Offshore, and in Urban Areas -- 6.1 Coastal and Offshore -- 6.2 Forested Terrain -- 6.3 Urban Areas -- References -- 7 Orographic Test Cases -- 7.1 Askervein Hill -- 7.2 Bolund Hill -- 7.3 Big Southern Butte (BSB) and Salmon River Canyon (SRC) -- 7.4 Perdigão -- 7.5 Alaiz -- References -- 8 Statistical Methods -- 8.1 Spatial Coherence 8.2 Measure-Correlate-Predict: An Overview -- 8.3 Analogue Ensembles -- 8.4 Wind Indices -- 8.5 The Robust Coefficient of Variation -- 8.6 Spatial Interpolation -- References -- 9 Atmospheric Reanalyses and Wind Atlases -- 9.1 What Is a Reanalysis? -- 9.2 Global Reanalyses -- 9.3 Regional Reanalyses -- 9.4 Comparing Reanalyses -- 9.5 Wind Atlases -- References -- 10 Mesoscale Phenomena -- 10.1 Thermally Driven Winds -- 10.2 Internal Gravity Waves -- 10.3 Low-level Jets -- 10.4 Convective Cells -- 10.5 Roll Vortices -- References -- 11 Long-term Wind Climate Trends 11.1 The Historical Evidence for Long-term Trends in Wind Speeds -- 11.2 Climate Models -- 11.3 Possible Future Changes and Uncertainties -- 11.4 Impact on Resource Assessment -- References -- Index -- End User License Agreement.
• Sommario/riassunto: HANDBOOK OF WIND RESOURCE ASSESSMENT. Useful reference text underpinning the theory behind wind resource assessment along with its practical application. Handbook of Wind Resource Assessment provides a comprehensive description of the background theory, methods, models, applications, and analysis of the discipline of wind resource assessment, covering topics such as climate variability, measurement, wind distributions, numerical modeling, statistical modeling, reanalysis datasets, applications in different environments (onshore and offshore), wind atlases, and future climate.
• Titolo autorizzato: Handbook of Wind Resource Assessment
• ISBN: 1-119-05530-X; 1-119-05540-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910831195403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II