Special Issue "Wind Energy Resource Numerical Simulation - Challenges and Outlooks"

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change impacts and adaptation for virtually all human activities are perhaps the greatest challenge humankind as ever faced. To mitigate climate change impacts on the environment, population, economy, and society in general, the replacement of fossil fuels by renewable energy sources is vital for the urgent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Wind energy is currently one of the most technologically mature renewable energy sources and still with a high growth potential, particularly offshore. Numerical simulation of wind energy is a practical and cost-effective tool to reliably estimate and map wind energy resources, which can be applied to virtually any area of interest.  

This Special Issue aims to present new contributions on numerical simulation of wind energy resource, both offshore and onshore, with a special focus on current challenges and future outlooks in this active research area. We encourage submissions that address wind energy resource assessment under the following topics:

- Numerical weather prediction (NWP) models, exploring existing or novel atmospheric physics options and innovative atmospheric modeling techniques and algorithms;

- Make use of atmospheric products such as re-analyses, new or existing satellite-derived data and other observational/modeled blended products;

- Novel data assimilation techniques that improve the simulation of the wind energy resource;

- Statistical algorithms and models such as neural networks and machine learning;

- Challenges on the current wind energy resource simulation techniques;

- Future outlooks of the wind energy resource worldwide under climate change scenarios.

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• Wind energy resource assessment
• numerical weather prediction models
• atmospheric modelling
• renewable energies
• climate change
• neural networks
• machine learning
• data assimilation