Comparison of WRF-based Methods for Wind Resource Assessment at an Offshore Site

摘要

The performance of offshore wind speed estimation methods that usethe mesoscale model WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting model)are compared and evaluated using in-situ measurements from two sitesover the coastal waters off Shirahama, Japan. Results show that theone-year sequential simulation using the Japan MeteorologicalAgency’s Meso-Analysis as boundary conditions provide betterestimations than hybrid methods that use steady-state WRF simulationsfor 16 wind directions with in-situ wind speed measurements from aneighboring reference site. Results also indicate that the measurementsimulationhybrid methods can perform better than the one-yearsequential simulation method within 10 km of the reference site.