NOAA-CFSR Offshore Wind Validation

Abstract

The wind field at sea is of considerable interest to identify suitable sites and for designing offshore wind energy production facility. However, the reliability of wind information suffers from the relative scarcity of offshore wind measurements to validate the wind models used in assessments. This paper presents a comparison of the publicly available NOAA-CFSR global re-analysis data set against offshore wind measurement collected in West Africa, Mediterranean Sea, Barents Sea and NW Australia, with the goal to investigate — in widely different meteorological conditions — the overall model reliability, in term of statistical indices of performance: Moreover, an attempt has been made to ascertain the representative averaging duration of model wind and the reliability of engineering formulas used to correlate wind of different averaging durations.

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Pizzigalli, C, Giovanetti, G, Pedinelli, L, & Padilla-Hernandez, R. "NOAA-CFSR Offshore Wind Validation." Proceedings of the ASME 2021 3rd International Offshore Wind Technical Conference. ASME 2021 3rd International Offshore Wind Technical Conference. Virtual, Online. February 16–17, 2021. V001T01A015. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/IOWTC2021-3547

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