Wind Energy Siting Methodology Windfield Model Verification Program. II. Nevada Test Site Data Set. Interim Report, 15 June 1979-15 February 1980

摘要

Results are presented from the second part of a two part verification program for a mathematical-model-based Wind Energy Conversion System Siting Methodology. The first part of the program involved windfield simulations and wind data comparisons for the island of Oahu, Hawaii. The objective of the present program is to expand the model verification by assessing the quantitative accuracy of the models relative to observed data for a midcontinental region of complex topography and meteorology, the Nevada Test Site (NTS), Nevada. In particular, the goal is to determine the ability of the detailed-physics SIGMET model to describe dynamic atmospheric and boundary layer effects on the windfield in a mesoscale region with complex terrain and to determine the ability of the simplified-physics NOABL model to predict windfields utilizing a small amount of available data. To this end, results of two SIGMET, NOABL, and LINMET simulations for typical flow events are compared and contrasted with available wind data. (ERA citation 06:020125)