Articles | Volume 8, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-125-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-8-125-2023
Research article
 | 
24 Jan 2023
Research article |  | 24 Jan 2023

Turbulence structures and entrainment length scales in large offshore wind farms

Abdul Haseeb Syed, Jakob Mann, Andreas Platis, and Jens Bange

Related authors

Simulating low-frequency wind fluctuations
Abdul Haseeb Syed and Jakob Mann
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 1381–1391, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1381-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-1381-2024, 2024
Short summary

Related subject area

Thematic area: Wind and the atmosphere | Topic: Wind and turbulence
Observations of wind farm wake recovery at an operating wind farm
Raghavendra Krishnamurthy, Rob K. Newsom, Colleen M. Kaul, Stefano Letizia, Mikhail Pekour, Nicholas Hamilton, Duli Chand, Donna Flynn, Nicola Bodini, and Patrick Moriarty
Wind Energ. Sci., 10, 361–380, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-361-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-361-2025, 2025
Short summary
Periods of constant wind speed: how long do they last in the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer?
Daniela Moreno, Jan Friedrich, Matthias Wächter, Jörg Schwarte, and Joachim Peinke
Wind Energ. Sci., 10, 347–360, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-347-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-347-2025, 2025
Short summary
Characterization of local wind profiles: a random forest approach for enhanced wind profile extrapolation
Farkhondeh (Hanie) Rouholahnejad and Julia Gottschall
Wind Energ. Sci., 10, 143–159, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-143-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-143-2025, 2025
Short summary
Simulations suggest offshore wind farms modify low-level jets
Daphne Quint, Julie K. Lundquist, and David Rosencrans
Wind Energ. Sci., 10, 117–142, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-117-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-117-2025, 2025
Short summary
On the lidar-turbulence paradox and possible countermeasures
Alfredo Peña, Ginka G. Yankova, and Vasiliki Mallini
Wind Energ. Sci., 10, 83–102, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-83-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-83-2025, 2025
Short summary

Cited articles

Abkar, M. and Porté-Agel, F.: The Effect of Free-Atmosphere Stratification on Boundary-Layer Flow and Power Output from Very Large Wind Farms, Energies, 6, 2338–2361, https://doi.org/10.3390/en6052338, 2013. a, b
Andersen, S. J., Sørensen, J. N., and Mikkelsen, R. F.: Turbulence and entrainment length scales in large wind farms, Philos. T. Roy. Soc. A, 375, 20160107, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2016.0107, 2017. a
Bange, J., Esposito, M., Lenschow, D. H., Brown, P. R. A., Dreiling, V., Giez, A., Mahrt, L., Malinowski, S. P., Rodi, A. R., Shaw, R. A., Siebert, H., Smit, H., and Zöger, M.: Measurement of Aircraft State and Thermodynamic and Dynamic Variables, in: chap. 2, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 7–75, https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527653218.ch2, 2013. a
Bärfuss, K., Hankers, R., Bitter, M., Feuerle, T., Schulz, H., Rausch, T., Platis, A., Bange, J., and Lampert, A.: In-situ airborne measurements of atmospheric and sea surface parameters related to offshore wind parks in the German Bight, PANGAEA [data set], https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.902845, 2019. a, b
Cañadillas, B., Foreman, R., Barth, V., Siedersleben, S., Lampert, A., Platis, A., Djath, B., Schulz-Stellenfleth, J., Bange, J., Emeis, S., and Neumann, T.: Offshore wind farm wake recovery: Airborne measurements and its representation in engineering models, Wind Energy, 23, 1249–1265, https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2484, 2020. a
Download
Short summary
Wind turbines extract energy from the incoming wind flow, which needs to be recovered. In very...
Share
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint