Simulated meteorological impacts of offshore wind turbines and sensitivity to the amount of added turbulence kinetic energy

Quint, Daphne; Lundquist, Julie K.; Bodini, Nicola; Rosencrans, David

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1269-2025

Articles | Volume 10, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1269-2025

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1269-2025

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

Articles | Volume 10, issue 7

Research article

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10 Jul 2025

Research article |

| 10 Jul 2025

Simulated meteorological impacts of offshore wind turbines and sensitivity to the amount of added turbulence kinetic energy

Daphne Quint, Julie K. Lundquist, Nicola Bodini, 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) Daphne Quint https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10993297

Short summary

Offshore wind farms along the US East Coast can have limited effects on local weather. To study these effects, we include wind farms near Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and we test different amounts of turbulence in our model. We analyze changes in wind, temperature, and turbulence. Simulated effects on surface temperature and turbulence change depending on how much turbulence is added to the model. The extent of the wind farm wake depends on how deep the atmospheric boundary layer is.