Parametric and structural sensitivities of turbine‐height wind speeds in the boundary layer parameterizations in the weather research and forecasting model

B Yang, LK Berg, Y Qian, C Wang… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Structural and parametric problems associated with physical parameterizations are often
tied together in weather and climate models. This study examines the sensitivities of turbine …

Sensitivity of turbine-height wind speeds to parameters in the planetary boundary-layer parametrization used in the Weather Research and Forecasting model …

LK Berg, Y Liu, B Yang, Y Qian, J Olson… - Boundary-layer …, 2019 - Springer
We extend the model sensitivity analysis of Yang et al.(Boundary-Layer Meteorol 162: 117–
142, 2017) to include results for February 2011, in addition to May of the same year. We …

Sensitivity of turbine-height wind speeds to parameters in planetary boundary-layer and surface-layer schemes in the weather research and forecasting model

B Yang, Y Qian, LK Berg, PL Ma, S Wharton… - Boundary-layer …, 2017 - Springer
We evaluate the sensitivity of simulated turbine-height wind speeds to 26 parameters within
the Mellor–Yamada–Nakanishi–Niino (MYNN) planetary boundary-layer scheme and MM5 …

Simulated potential wind power sensitivity to the planetary boundary layer parameterizations combined with various topography datasets in the weather research and …

C Wu, K Luo, Q Wang, J Fan - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Wind power simulation was validated to be sensitive to the planetary boundary layer (PBL)
parameterization schemes in the Weather Researching and Forecasting (WRF) model …

Time evolution and diurnal variability of the parametric sensitivity of turbine‐height winds in the MYNN‐EDMF parameterization

LK Berg, Y Liu, B Yang, Y Qian… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mellor‐Yamada‐Nakanishi‐Niino (MYNN) parameterization applied in the
Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model has been augmented to include the Eddy …

Evaluating winds and vertical wind shear from Weather Research and Forecasting model forecasts using seven planetary boundary layer schemes

C Draxl, AN Hahmann, A Peña, G Giebel - Wind Energy, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The existence of vertical wind shear in the atmosphere close to the ground requires that
wind resource assessment and prediction with numerical weather prediction (NWP) models …

A methodology for the design and testing of atmospheric boundary layer models for wind energy applications

J Sanz Rodrigo, M Churchfield… - Wind Energy …, 2017 - wes.copernicus.org
The GEWEX Atmospheric Boundary Layer Studies (GABLS) 1, 2 and 3 are used to develop
a methodology for the design and testing of Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) …

Impact of model improvements on 80 m wind speeds during the second Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP2)

L Bianco, IV Djalalova, JM Wilczak… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
During the second Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP2; October 2015–March 2017,
held in the Columbia River Gorge and Basin area of eastern Washington and Oregon …

A new gust parameterization for weather prediction models

A Gutiérrez, RG Fovell - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2018 - Elsevier
We analyze Uruguyan measurements, focusing on gusts at turbine hub height. Large gusts,
exceeding 15 m/s, are observed to occur when the surface layer (as assessed by the bulk …

Evaluation of boundary layer and urban canopy parameterizations for simulating wind in Miami during Hurricane Irma (2017)

EA Hendricks, JC Knievel… - Monthly Weather …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
The simulated winds within the urban canopy of landfalling tropical cyclones are sensitive to
the representation of the planetary boundary and urban canopy layers in numerical weather …