Atmospheric turbulence affects wind turbine nacelle transfer functions

St. Martin, Clara M.; Lundquist, Julie K.; Clifton, Andrew; Poulos, Gregory S.; Schreck, Scott J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2-295-2017

Articles | Volume 2, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2-295-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2-295-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 2, issue 1

Research article

|

02 Jun 2017

Research article |

| 02 Jun 2017

Atmospheric turbulence affects wind turbine nacelle transfer functions

Clara M. St. Martin, Julie K. Lundquist, Andrew Clifton, Gregory S. Poulos, and Scott J. Schreck

Download

Final revised paper (published on 02 Jun 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 14 Dec 2016)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

- Printer-friendly version

- Supplement

RC1: 'Revision_wes-2016-45', Anonymous Referee #1, 11 Jan 2017
- AC1: 'Author final response to RC1', Clara St. Martin, 22 Mar 2017
RC2: 'Review of Atmospheric turbulence affects wind turbine nacelle transfer functions', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Jan 2017
- AC2: 'Author final response to RC2', Clara St. Martin, 22 Mar 2017

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (07 Apr 2017) by Horia Hangan

AR by Clara St. Martin on behalf of the Authors (16 Apr 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (19 Apr 2017) by Horia Hangan

ED: Publish as is (24 Apr 2017) by Gerard J.W. van Bussel (Chief editor)

AR by Clara St. Martin on behalf of the Authors (27 Apr 2017)

Short summary

We use upwind and nacelle-based measurements from a wind turbine and investigate the influence of atmospheric stability and turbulence regimes on nacelle transfer functions (NTFs) used to correct nacelle-mounted anemometer measurements. This work shows that correcting nacelle winds using NTFs results in similar energy production estimates to those obtained using upwind tower-based wind speeds. Further, stability and turbulence metrics have been found to have an effect on NTFs below rated speed.