A comparison between Advanced Scatterometer and Weather Research and Forecasting wind speeds for the Japanese offshore wind resource map
Abstract This paper investigates the validity of the method used in the Japanese offshore wind map (NeoWins) to seamlessly connecting satellite‐derived wind speed for open oceans to mesoscale model‐simulated wind speed for coastal waters. In the NeoWins, the former was obtained from the satellite‐bo...
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crwiley:10.1002/we.2503 2024-03-31T07:55:19+00:00 A comparison between Advanced Scatterometer and Weather Research and Forecasting wind speeds for the Japanese offshore wind resource map Takeyama, Yuko Ohsawa, Teruo Tanemoto, Jun Shimada, Susumu Kozai, Katsutoshi Kogaki, Tetsuya 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/we.2503 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fwe.2503 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/we.2503 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/we.2503 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Wind Energy volume 23, issue 7, page 1596-1609 ISSN 1095-4244 1099-1824 Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment journal-article 2020 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2503 2024-03-04T13:01:01Z Abstract This paper investigates the validity of the method used in the Japanese offshore wind map (NeoWins) to seamlessly connecting satellite‐derived wind speed for open oceans to mesoscale model‐simulated wind speed for coastal waters. In the NeoWins, the former was obtained from the satellite‐borne Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT), and the latter was obtained from numerical simulations using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. In this study, the consistency of the ASCAT and WRF 10‐m height wind speeds is examined in their overwrapping areas. The comparison between ASCAT and WRF model reveals that their differences in annual mean wind speed are mostly within ±5% and that the ASCAT annual mean wind speed is, as a whole, slightly higher than the WRF annual mean wind speed. The results indicate that there are no large wind speed gaps between WRF and ASCAT in most parts of the Japanese offshore areas. It is moreover found that the discrepancies between the two wind speeds are due to two factors: one is the existence of winter sea ice in the ASCAT observation in the Sea of Okhotsk in ASCAT observation and the other is that the accuracy of the WRF wind speed depends on atmospheric stability. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sea ice Wiley Online Library Okhotsk Wind Energy 23 7 1596 1609 |
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Abstract This paper investigates the validity of the method used in the Japanese offshore wind map (NeoWins) to seamlessly connecting satellite‐derived wind speed for open oceans to mesoscale model‐simulated wind speed for coastal waters. In the NeoWins, the former was obtained from the satellite‐borne Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT), and the latter was obtained from numerical simulations using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. In this study, the consistency of the ASCAT and WRF 10‐m height wind speeds is examined in their overwrapping areas. The comparison between ASCAT and WRF model reveals that their differences in annual mean wind speed are mostly within ±5% and that the ASCAT annual mean wind speed is, as a whole, slightly higher than the WRF annual mean wind speed. The results indicate that there are no large wind speed gaps between WRF and ASCAT in most parts of the Japanese offshore areas. It is moreover found that the discrepancies between the two wind speeds are due to two factors: one is the existence of winter sea ice in the ASCAT observation in the Sea of Okhotsk in ASCAT observation and the other is that the accuracy of the WRF wind speed depends on atmospheric stability. |
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Takeyama, Yuko Ohsawa, Teruo Tanemoto, Jun Shimada, Susumu Kozai, Katsutoshi Kogaki, Tetsuya |
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Takeyama, Yuko Ohsawa, Teruo Tanemoto, Jun Shimada, Susumu Kozai, Katsutoshi Kogaki, Tetsuya |
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A comparison between Advanced Scatterometer and Weather Research and Forecasting wind speeds for the Japanese offshore wind resource map |
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A comparison between Advanced Scatterometer and Weather Research and Forecasting wind speeds for the Japanese offshore wind resource map |
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A comparison between Advanced Scatterometer and Weather Research and Forecasting wind speeds for the Japanese offshore wind resource map |
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A comparison between Advanced Scatterometer and Weather Research and Forecasting wind speeds for the Japanese offshore wind resource map |
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A comparison between Advanced Scatterometer and Weather Research and Forecasting wind speeds for the Japanese offshore wind resource map |
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comparison between advanced scatterometer and weather research and forecasting wind speeds for the japanese offshore wind resource map |
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