A Regional Assessment of the U.S. Offshore Wind Energy Resource Through the Use of Mesoscale Modeling
In the United States, there is rapidly developing interest in offshore wind power. Potential United States offshore wind resource estimates exceed 900 GW. Tools for accurate wind power availability evaluation and depiction are thus needed, necessitating strategies for observation and modeling strategies focused on physical and dynamical process description operating, over a spatial and temporal scale spectrum, just above and within the marine atmospheric boundary layer. The authors discuss methods of data assimilation and modeling used for offshore wind environment characterization through examples of model simulation, observational studies, and resource mapping. High resolution (200 m) offshore wind resource maps are presented for the Great Lakes, Louisiana, Texas, and New England. The authors discuss, for waters south of Long Island, New York, recent intensive field measurement campaign results, as well as coastal atmospheric regime modeling analysis and verification study.
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Authors:
- Bailey, Bruce H
- Freedman, Jeffrey M
- Publication Date: 2008
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 8-18
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Serial:
- Marine Technology Society Journal
- Volume: 42
- Issue Number: 2
- Publisher: Marine Technology Society
- ISSN: 0025-3324
- Serial URL: http://ingentaconnect.com/content/mts/mtsj
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Mathematical models; Offshore power plants; Wind power generation
- Geographic Terms: United States
- Subject Areas: Energy; Marine Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01111081
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Sep 24 2008 10:38AM