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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2059-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-2059-2022
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19 Oct 2022
Research article |  | 19 Oct 2022

Offshore reanalysis wind speed assessment across the wind turbine rotor layer off the United States Pacific coast

Lindsay M. Sheridan, Raghu Krishnamurthy, Gabriel García Medina, Brian J. Gaudet, William I. Gustafson Jr., Alicia M. Mahon, William J. Shaw, Rob K. Newsom, Mikhail Pekour, and Zhaoqing Yang

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Using observations from lidar buoys, five reanalysis and analysis models that support the wind energy community are validated offshore and at rotor-level heights along the California Pacific coast. The models are found to underestimate the observed wind resource. Occasions of large model error occur in conjunction with stable atmospheric conditions, wind speeds associated with peak turbine power production, and mischaracterization of the diurnal wind speed cycle in summer months.
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