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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ftdtupubl:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/ce8bec0c-fc9c-4582-9256-cac1df3a5752 2023-12-24T10:17:45+01:00 Mapping Offshore Winds Around Iceland Using Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar and Mesoscale Model Simulations Hasager, Charlotte Bay Badger, Merete Nawri, Nikolai Rugaard Furevik, Birgitte Petersen, Guðrún Nína Björnsson, Halldór Clausen, Niels-Erik 2015 application/pdf https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/ce8bec0c-fc9c-4582-9256-cac1df3a5752 https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2443981 https://backend.orbit.dtu.dk/ws/files/121070030/Mapping_Offshore_Winds_1.pdf eng eng https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/ce8bec0c-fc9c-4582-9256-cac1df3a5752 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Hasager , C B , Badger , M , Nawri , N , Rugaard Furevik , B , Petersen , G N , Björnsson , H & Clausen , N-E 2015 , ' Mapping Offshore Winds Around Iceland Using Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar and Mesoscale Model Simulations ' , I E E E Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing , vol. 8 , no. 12 , pp. 5541-5552 . https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2443981 Offshore resource Polarization ratio (PR) Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Wind energy Wind speed /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action name=SDG 13 - Climate Action article 2015 ftdtupubl https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2443981 2023-11-30T00:00:43Z 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 swathmode 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 Technical University of Denmark: DTU Orbit 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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Offshore resource Polarization ratio (PR) Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Wind energy Wind speed /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action name=SDG 13 - Climate Action Hasager, Charlotte Bay Badger, Merete Nawri, Nikolai Rugaard Furevik, Birgitte Petersen, Guðrún Nína Björnsson, Halldór Clausen, Niels-Erik Mapping Offshore Winds Around Iceland Using Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar and Mesoscale Model Simulations |
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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 swathmode 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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Hasager, Charlotte Bay Badger, Merete Nawri, Nikolai Rugaard Furevik, Birgitte Petersen, Guðrún Nína Björnsson, Halldór Clausen, Niels-Erik |
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Hasager, Charlotte Bay Badger, Merete Nawri, Nikolai Rugaard Furevik, Birgitte Petersen, Guðrún Nína Björnsson, Halldór Clausen, Niels-Erik |
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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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Hasager , C B , Badger , M , Nawri , N , Rugaard Furevik , B , Petersen , G N , Björnsson , H & Clausen , N-E 2015 , ' Mapping Offshore Winds Around Iceland Using Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar and Mesoscale Model Simulations ' , I E E E Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing , vol. 8 , no. 12 , pp. 5541-5552 . https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2443981 |
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