Mapping Offshore Winds Around Iceland Using Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar and Mesoscale Model Simulations
The offshore wind climate in Iceland is examined based on satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR), coastal meteorological station measurements, and results from two atmospheric model data sets, HARMONIE and NORA10. The offshore winds in Iceland are highly influenced by the rugged coastline. Lee eff...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:9f5207bfbce547628d941f5dac58b58b 2023-05-15T16:46:31+02:00 Mapping Offshore Winds Around Iceland Using Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar and Mesoscale Model Simulations Charlotte Bay Hasager Merete Badger Nikolai Nawri Birgitte Rugaard Furevik Guorun Nina Petersen Halldor Bjornsson Niels-Erik Clausen 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2443981 https://doaj.org/article/9f5207bfbce547628d941f5dac58b58b EN eng IEEE https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7154404/ https://doaj.org/toc/2151-1535 2151-1535 doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2443981 https://doaj.org/article/9f5207bfbce547628d941f5dac58b58b IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Vol 8, Iss 12, Pp 5541-5552 (2015) Offshore resource polarization ratio (PR) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) wind energy wind speed Ocean engineering TC1501-1800 Geophysics. Cosmic physics QC801-809 article 2015 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2443981 2022-12-31T13:12:11Z The offshore wind climate in Iceland is examined based on satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR), coastal meteorological station measurements, and results from two atmospheric model data sets, HARMONIE and NORA10. The offshore winds in Iceland are highly influenced by the rugged coastline. Lee effects, gap flow, coastal barrier jets, and atmospheric gravity waves are not only observed in SAR, but are also modeled well from HARMONIE. Offshore meteorological observations are not available, but wind speed and wind direction measurements from coastal meteorological masts are found to compare well to nearby offshore locations observed by SAR. More than 2500 SAR scenes from the Envisat ASAR wide swath mode are used for wind energy resource estimation. The wind energy potential observed from satellite SAR shows high values above ${1000}\;{Wm}^{ - {2}}$ in coastal regions in the south, east, and west, with lower values in the north. The most promising region for wind energy production is the southwestern coastal region. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Asar ENVELOPE(134.033,134.033,68.667,68.667) IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 8 12 5541 5552 |
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The offshore wind climate in Iceland is examined based on satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR), coastal meteorological station measurements, and results from two atmospheric model data sets, HARMONIE and NORA10. The offshore winds in Iceland are highly influenced by the rugged coastline. Lee effects, gap flow, coastal barrier jets, and atmospheric gravity waves are not only observed in SAR, but are also modeled well from HARMONIE. Offshore meteorological observations are not available, but wind speed and wind direction measurements from coastal meteorological masts are found to compare well to nearby offshore locations observed by SAR. More than 2500 SAR scenes from the Envisat ASAR wide swath mode are used for wind energy resource estimation. The wind energy potential observed from satellite SAR shows high values above ${1000}\;{Wm}^{ - {2}}$ in coastal regions in the south, east, and west, with lower values in the north. The most promising region for wind energy production is the southwestern coastal region. |
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Charlotte Bay Hasager Merete Badger Nikolai Nawri Birgitte Rugaard Furevik Guorun Nina Petersen Halldor Bjornsson Niels-Erik Clausen |
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Charlotte Bay Hasager Merete Badger Nikolai Nawri Birgitte Rugaard Furevik Guorun Nina Petersen Halldor Bjornsson Niels-Erik Clausen |
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Charlotte Bay Hasager |
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Mapping Offshore Winds Around Iceland Using Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar and Mesoscale Model Simulations |
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Mapping Offshore Winds Around Iceland Using Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar and Mesoscale Model Simulations |
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Mapping Offshore Winds Around Iceland Using Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar and Mesoscale Model Simulations |
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Mapping Offshore Winds Around Iceland Using Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar and Mesoscale Model Simulations |
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Mapping Offshore Winds Around Iceland Using Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar and Mesoscale Model Simulations |
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mapping offshore winds around iceland using satellite synthetic aperture radar and mesoscale model simulations |
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