Large-eddy simulation of an atmospheric bore and associated gravity wave effects on wind farm performance in the southern Great Plains

Wise, Adam S.; Arthur, Robert S.; Abraham, Aliza; Wharton, Sonia; Krishnamurthy, Raghavendra; Newsom, Rob; Hirth, Brian; Schroeder, John; Moriarty, Patrick; Chow, Fotini K.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1007-2025

Articles | Volume 10, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1007-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1007-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 6

Research article

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02 Jun 2025

Research article |

| 02 Jun 2025

Large-eddy simulation of an atmospheric bore and associated gravity wave effects on wind farm performance in the southern Great Plains

Adam S. Wise, Robert S. Arthur, Aliza Abraham, Sonia Wharton, Raghavendra Krishnamurthy, Rob Newsom, Brian Hirth, John Schroeder, Patrick Moriarty, and Fotini K. Chow

Data sets

Doppler Lidar (DL) Instrument Handbook R. Newsom and R. Krishnamurthy https://doi.org/10.2172/1034640

awaken/sa1.lidar.z01.00 S. Wharton https://doi.org/10.21947/1915018

Doppler Lidar (DLPPI2) Site A1 (S4) for AWAKEN R. Newsom and R. Krishnamurthy https://doi.org/10.5439/1890922

Model code and software

adamwise95/WRFv4.4-DRM_GAD: WRFv4.4-DRM_GAD (v1.0) A. S. Wise https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15492528

Video supplement

Large-eddy simulation of an atmospheric bore and associated gravity wave effects on wind farm performance in the Southern Great Plains Adam S. Wise https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12551369

Short summary

Wind farms can be subject to rapidly changing weather events. In the United States Great Plains, some of these weather events can result in waves in the atmosphere that ultimately affect how much power a wind farm can produce. We modeled a specific event of waves observed in Oklahoma. We determined how to accurately model the event and analyzed how it affected a wind farm’s power production, finding that the waves both decreased power and made it more variable.