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Lundquist group: boundary-layer meteorology: How do we measure and simulate where the atmosphere meets the land or water?. Crop Impacts. Downwind Impacts. Wind Shear And Turbulence Impacts. Resource Assessment. Forecasting for Power Grid Optimization. Offshore Wind Challenges.
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Lundquist group: boundary-layer meteorology:How do we measure and simulate where the atmosphere meets the land or water? Crop Impacts Downwind Impacts Wind Shear And Turbulence Impacts Resource Assessment Forecasting for Power Grid Optimization Offshore Wind Challenges
Theory: improving the models based on obs • Observations: • WindCube remote sensing, • tower in situ • HRDL remote sensing with NOAA • Modeling: WRF&WRF-LES • turbine wakes • boundary layers • Surface-atm interaction NREL DOE NCAR LANL LLNL RASEI Industry Funding
Mike Rhodes (ASEN), Matt Aitken (Physics), Iowa Wind Farm June-July 2010 Windcube @ SkyWatch May 2010 Robert Marshall (ATOC), Mike Rhodes (ASEN) CWEX-11, June-Aug 2011