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Articles | Volume 6, issue 3
Articles | Volume 6, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-6-777-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-6-777-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 6, issue 3
Research article
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01 Jun 2021
Research article |  | 01 Jun 2021

A pressure-driven atmospheric boundary layer model satisfying Rossby and Reynolds number similarity

Maarten Paul van der Laan, Mark Kelly, and Mads Baungaard

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Wind farms operate in the atmospheric boundary layer, and their performance is strongly dependent on the atmospheric conditions. We propose a simple model of the atmospheric boundary layer that can be used as an inflow model for wind farm simulations for isolating a number of atmospheric effects – namely, the change in wind direction with height and atmospheric boundary layer depth. In addition, the simple model is shown to be consistent with two similarity theories.
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