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Articles | Volume 5, issue 3
Articles | Volume 5, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1169-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1169-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 5, issue 3
Research article
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11 Sep 2020
Research article |  | 11 Sep 2020

How wind speed shear and directional veer affect the power production of a megawatt-scale operational wind turbine

Patrick Murphy, Julie K. Lundquist, and Paul Fleming

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We present and evaluate an improved method for predicting wind turbine power production based on measurements of the wind speed and direction profile across the rotor disk for a wind turbine in complex terrain. By comparing predictions to actual power production from a utility-scale wind turbine, we show this method is more accurate than methods based on hub-height wind speed or surface-based atmospheric characterization.
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