1069: Boundary layer meteorology in complex terrain and for wind energy applications

Principal investigator: Gerard Kilroy

DLR, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre (Community project)

Project abstract

Report 1/2018 to 12/2018
Report 1/2019 to 12/2019
Report 1/2020 to 12/2020
Report 1/2021 to 12/2021
Report 1/2022 to 12/2022
Report 1/2023 to 12/2023
Report 1/2024 to 12/2024

Publications

• DOI: 10.5194/wes-2024-12, Wrba L., Englberger A., Dörnbrack A., Kilroy G., Wildmann N. Data assimilation of realistic boundary-layer flows for wind-turbine applications - An LES study. Wind Energ. Sci., in review.
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2767/5/052063, Kilroy G, Englberger A, Wrba L, Bührend L and Wildmann N., 2024. Evaluation of turbulence characteristics in WRF simulations at WiValdi wind park. J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 2767 052063.
• DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-17394, Thayer, J., Kilroy, G., Wildmann, N., and Englberger, A.: How do convective cold pools influence the stability and turbulence conditions in the vicinity of wind turbines in Northern Germany? EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-17394, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-17394, 2024a.
• DOI: 10.5194/ems2024-508, Thayer, J., Kilroy, G., Wildmann, N., and Englberger, A.: How do convective cold pools influence the stability and turbulence conditions near wind turbines in Northern Germany? EMS Annual Meeting 2024, Barcelona, Spain, 1–6 Sep 2024, EMS2024-508, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2024-508, 2024b.
• DOI: 10.5194/gmd-15-5195-2022, Quimbayo-Duarte, Julian und Wagner, Johannes und Wildmann, Norman und Gerz, Thomas und Schmidli, Juerg (2022) Evaluation of a forest parameterization to improve boundary layer flow simulations over complex terrain. A case study using WRF-LES V4.0.1. Geoscientific Model Development, 15 (13), Seiten 5195-5209. Copernicus Publications.
• DOI: 10.1121/2.0001331, Arthur Schady and Katharina Elsen: On the detectability of a wind turbines noise under different meteorological conditions Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 41, 040002 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001331
• DOI: 10.1121/2.0001351, Katharina Maria Elsen, and Arthur Schady, Influence of meteorological conditions on sound propagation of a wind turbine incomplex terrain; Proc. Mtgs. Acoust.41, 032001 (2020);
• DOI: 10.5194/wes-2019-85, Menke, Robert und Vasiljević, Nikola und Wagner, Johannes und Oncley, Steven P. und Mann, Jakob (2020) Multi-lidar wind resource mapping in complex terrain. Wind Energy Science. Copernicus Publications
• DOI: 10.5194/acp-19-1129-2019, Wagner, J., Gerz, T., Wildmann, N., and Gramitzky, K.: Long-term simulation of the boundary layer flow over the double-ridge site during the Perdigão 2017 field campaign, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 1129–1146, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-1129-2019, 2019.