Mesoscale and Microscale Modeling in NE China

19721212

Abstract:
2 J2 j0 i: h. @0 ]) EA Sino-Danish project to map the wind resources of NE China (Dongbei) is described. Measurements, microscale and mesoscale modeling will be applied in the framework of the wind atlas methodology. Planned extensions to the standard methodology include comparisons of wind measurement systems as well as mesoscale (KAMM, MM5, WRF) and microscale (WAsP, MS-Micro) models. The final goal is to produce a reliable wind resource database for Dongbei and develop an improved, standardized framework for wind resource assessment and siting, as well as methods for uncertainty estimation.
Keywords: wind resource assessment, wind measurements, microscale modeling, mesoscale modeling, numerical wind atlas, siting, NE China.
0 o3 e1 t  q+ b# n' \) ]1. Introduction
The China Meteorological Administration (CMA) and Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy at the Technical University of Denmark (Risø DTU) has entered an agreement with the primary objective of assessing the wind resources of the three provinces of Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang in NE China (Dongbei). This paper describes the conceptual design and contents of the project “Mesoscale and microscale modeling in NE China”.
/ z3 c; _5 m3 r2. Project Conceptual Design
& `6 K) ]6 A9 l# C1 g' p6 k4 b4 UNE China (Dongbei) covers an area of almost 800,000 km2, spanning 15° of latitude and longitude, and with elevations from 0 to 2744 meters above sea level. In order to assess the wind resources of such a diverse geographical region – including provision of reliable data for physical planning (national, regional or local), wind farm siting, project development, wind farm layout design and micrositing of wind turbines – the project has adopted the framework of the wind atlas methodology developed at Risø DTU (Frank et al., 2001; Badger et al., 2006; Hansen et al., 2007). Figure 1 below is a schematic presentation of this
1