FY 2018 Report of the Atmosphere to Electrons Mesoscale-to-Microscale Coupling Project

摘要: The goal of the Mesoscale-to-Microscale Coupling (MMC) project is to build new high-performance-computing-based multiscale wind-plant simulation tools that couple a broad range of scales to enable the optimization of wind plants to ensure the efficient, reliable production and integration of future wind-generated electricity. To meet this goal, the project seeks to create, assess, and validate state-of-the-science atmospheric simulation methodologies to incorporate important mesoscale flow characteristics into microscale wind-plant simulations. The fourth year of the project (fiscal year 2018 [FY18]) focused on: • documenting and assessing the impacts of modeling at the mesoscale; • assessing methods of initiating turbulence in microscale simulations; • exploring methods to better represent the near-surface physics; • evaluating the turbulence statistics for coupled model case studies in flat and in complex terrain.