A Comparison of Wind Flow Models for Wind Resource Assessment in Wind Energy Applications

摘要: The objective of this work was to assess the accuracy various coupled mesoscale-microscale wind flow modeling methodologies for energy applications. This is achieved by examining and comparing mean speeds from several with observational measurements 50 m met towers distributed across study area. At mesoscale level, a 5 km resolution, two scenarios are examined based on Mesoscale Compressible Community Model (MC2) model: Canadian Wind Energy Atlas (CWEA) scenario, which standard input data, CWEA High Definition (CWEAHD) scenario where high resolution land cover data used. A downscaling obtained climate microscale level then performed, linear models, i.e., MsMicro Analysis Application Program (WAsP), evaluated following three scenarios: CWEA-WAsP, CWEA-MsMicro CWEAHD-MsMicro. Results show that, territory studied, approach MC2 also known as Simulation Toolkit (WEST), use topography at helps reduce errors both albeit only marginally. results that MC2-WAsP gave substantially better than approaches due tweaked meso-micro coupling.