Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-117-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-117-2025
Research article
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14 Jan 2025
Research article |  | 14 Jan 2025

Simulations suggest offshore wind farms modify low-level jets

Daphne Quint, Julie K. Lundquist, and David Rosencrans

Data sets

2023 National Offshore Wind data set (NOW-23) National Renewable Energy Laboratory https://doi.org/10.25984/1821404

Model code and software

doqhne/offshore_wind_research: meteorological impacts of offshore wind turbines (Version v1) D. Quint https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10993298

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Short summary
Offshore wind farms will be built along the East Coast of the United States. Low-level jets (LLJs) – layers of fast winds at low altitudes – also occur here. LLJs provide wind resources and also influence moisture and pollution transport, so it is important to understand how they might change. We develop and validate an automated tool to detect LLJs and compare 1 year of simulations with and without wind farms. Here, we describe LLJ characteristics and how they change with wind farms.
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