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A New Approach to Obtain Synthetic Wind Power Forecasts for Integration Studies

  • Jon Olauson,
  • Johan Bladh,
  • Joakim Lönnberg and
  • Mikael Bergkvist

3 October 2016

When performing wind integration studies, synthetic wind power forecasts are key elements. Historically, data from operational forecasting systems have been used sparsely, likely due to the high costs involved. Purely statistical methods for simulati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Time Series Forecasting)
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  • Open Access
37 Citations
9,095 Views
22 Pages

On the Use of Dual-Doppler Radar Measurements for Very Short-Term Wind Power Forecasts

  • Laura Valldecabres,
  • Nicolai Gayle Nygaard,
  • Luis Vera-Tudela,
  • Lueder Von Bremen and
  • Martin Kühn

29 October 2018

Very short-term forecasts of wind power provide electricity market participants with extremely valuable information, especially in power systems with high penetration of wind energy. In very short-term horizons, statistical methods based on historica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Conditions for Wind Energy Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,918 Views
16 Pages

6 March 2021

Wind energy and wind power forecast errors have a direct impact on operational decision problems involved in the integration of this form of energy into the electricity system. As the relationship between wind and the generated power is highly nonlin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Technologies and Advanced Controls in Renewable-Energy-Based Power Generation Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
102 Citations
11,465 Views
38 Pages

Evaluation Metrics for Wind Power Forecasts: A Comprehensive Review and Statistical Analysis of Errors

  • Paweł Piotrowski,
  • Inajara Rutyna,
  • Dariusz Baczyński and
  • Marcin Kopyt

19 December 2022

Power generation forecasts for wind farms, especially with a short-term horizon, have been extensively researched due to the growing share of wind farms in total power generation. Detailed forecasts are necessary for the optimization of power systems...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Forecasting and Optimization in Electrical Power Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,925 Views
18 Pages

12 April 2020

Weather variables are an important driver of power generation from renewable energy sources. However, accurately predicting such variables is a challenging task, which has a significant impact on the accuracy of the power generation forecasts. In thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling of Variable Renewable Generation: Wind and Solar Photovoltaic Power Plants)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,567 Views
14 Pages

Medium- and Long-Term Wind-Power Forecasts, Considering Regional Similarities

  • Xianxun Wang,
  • Yaru Liu,
  • Jiachen Hou,
  • Suoping Wang and
  • Huaming Yao

21 February 2023

Accurate and efficient medium- and long-term forecasts of wind power can provide technical support for the efficient development and utilization of wind resources. Considering the regional characteristics of wind resources, the regional-similarity fa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wind Forecasting over Complex Terrain)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,553 Views
18 Pages

Revolutionizing Solar Power Forecasts by Correcting the Outputs of the WRF-SOLAR Model

  • Cheng-Liang Huang,
  • Yuan-Kang Wu,
  • Chin-Cheng Tsai,
  • Jing-Shan Hong and
  • Yuan-Yao Li

22 December 2023

Climate change poses a significant threat to humanity. Achieving net-zero emissions is a key goal in many countries. Among various energy resources, solar power generation is one of the prominent renewable energy sources. Previous studies have demons...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Photovoltaic Solar Energy II)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,640 Views
27 Pages

1 August 2022

The main objective of this study was to conduct multi-stage and multi-variant prognostic research to assess the impact of e-mobility development on the Polish power system for the period 2022–2027. The research steps were as follows: forecast t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Forecasting and Optimization in Electrical Power Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
3,289 Views
16 Pages

15 March 2019

Accurate probabilistic forecasts of renewable generation are drivers for operational and management excellence in modern power systems and for the sustainable integration of green energy. The combination of forecasts provided by different individual...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ensemble Forecasting Applied to Power Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,786 Views
19 Pages

28 October 2023

Renewable energy sources are being expanded globally in response to global warming. Solar power generation is closely related to solar radiation and typically experiences significant fluctuations in solar radiation hours during periods of high solar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Forecasting Techniques for Power Systems with Machine Learning)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,830 Views
36 Pages

8 March 2023

Energy policies of the European Union, the United States, China, and many other countries are focused on the growth in the number of and output from renewable energy sources (RES). That is because RES has become increasingly more competitive when com...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technical Problems in the Production and Distribution of Energy from Renewable Energy Sources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
584 Views
26 Pages

21 June 2026

Accurate day-ahead wind speed forecasting is essential for wind power forecasting and electricity market participation under increasing renewable energy penetration. This study proposes a hybrid forecasting framework that combines raw global forecast...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning in Renewable Energy Resource Assessment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,416 Views
23 Pages

Outlier Events of Solar Forecasts for Regional Power Grid in Japan Using JMA Mesoscale Model

  • Hideaki Ohtake,
  • Fumichika Uno,
  • Takashi Oozeki,
  • Yoshinori Yamada and ,
  • Hideaki Takenaka and
  • Takashi Y. Nakajima
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 October 2018

To realize the safety control of electric power systems under high penetration of photovoltaic power systems, accurate global horizontal irradiance (GHI) forecasts using numerical weather prediction models (NWP) are becoming increasingly important. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Solar and Wind Energy Forecasting)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,017 Views
21 Pages

An Evaluation of the Power System Stability for a Hybrid Power Plant Using Wind Speed and Cloud Distribution Forecasts

  • Théodore Desiré Tchokomani Moukam,
  • Akira Sugawara,
  • Yuancheng Li and
  • Yakubu Bello

20 March 2025

Power system stability (PSS) refers to the capacity of an electrical system to maintain a consistent equilibrium between the generation and consumption of electric power. In this paper, the PSS is evaluated for a “hybrid power plant” (HPP...

(This article belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
2,855 Views
14 Pages

Improving Wind Power Generation Forecasts: A Hybrid ANN-Clustering-PSO Approach

  • Antonella R. Finamore,
  • Vito Calderaro,
  • Vincenzo Galdi,
  • Giuseppe Graber and ,
  • Lucio Ippolito and
  • Gaspare Conio
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 November 2023

This study introduces a novel hybrid forecasting model for wind power generation. It integrates Artificial Neural Networks, data clustering, and Particle Swarm Optimization algorithms. The methodology employs a systematic framework: initial clusterin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Intelligence in Electrical Systems)
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  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,435 Views
33 Pages

From Firm Solar Power Forecasts to Firm Solar Power Generation an Effective Path to Ultra-High Renewable Penetration a New York Case Study

  • Richard Perez,
  • Marc Perez,
  • James Schlemmer,
  • John Dise and ,
  • Thomas E. Hoff,
  • Agata Swierc,
  • Patrick Keelin,
  • Marco Pierro and
  • Cristina Cornaro
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

31 August 2020

We introduce firm solar forecasts as a strategy to operate optimally overbuilt solar power plants in conjunction with optimally sized storage systems so as to make up for any power prediction errors, and hence entirely remove load balancing uncertain...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
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  • Open Access

Weather-Regime-Conditioned Evaluation of Photovoltaic Power Forecasts Across Two Independent Datasets

  • Ahmed Hathat,
  • Saadi Abdelkader,
  • Abdelaziz Rabehi,
  • Mawloud Guermoui and ,
  • Mostefa Hamdani and
  • Mustapha Habib
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 November 2026

Photovoltaic (PV) power forecasts are typically evaluated using aggregate error metrics computed over an entire test period, which may conceal condition-dependent accuracy differences. We evaluate whether forecasting error varies systematically with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,919 Views
27 Pages

Error Assessment of Solar Irradiance Forecasts and AC Power from Energy Conversion Model in Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Systems

  • Gianfranco Chicco,
  • Valeria Cocina,
  • Paolo Di Leo,
  • Filippo Spertino and
  • Alessandro Massi Pavan

24 December 2015

Availability of effective estimation of the power profiles of photovoltaic systems is essential for studying how to increase the share of intermittent renewable sources in the electricity mix of many countries. For this purpose, weather forecasts, to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Forecasting Methods and Measurements of Forecasting Errors for Renewable Energy Sources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,575 Views
30 Pages

29 January 2016

Wind energy has increasingly played a vital role in mitigating conventional resource shortages. Nevertheless, the stochastic nature of wind poses a great challenge when attempting to find an accurate forecasting model for wind power. Therefore, preci...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,150 Views
24 Pages

24 August 2024

High-quality short-term forecasts of electrical energy generation in solar power plants are crucial in the dynamically developing sector of renewable power generation. This article addresses the issue of selecting appropriate (preferred) methods for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Forecasting Methods for Sustainable Power Grid)
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  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,246 Views
15 Pages

Forecasting Photovoltaic Power Generation Using Satellite Images

  • Dukhwan Yu,
  • Seowoo Lee,
  • Sangwon Lee,
  • Wonik Choi and
  • Ling Liu

14 December 2020

As the relative importance of renewable energy in electric power systems increases, the prediction of photovoltaic (PV) power generation has become a crucial technology, for improving stability in the operation of next-generation power systems, such...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Technologies and Advanced Controls in Renewable-Energy-Based Power Generation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,872 Views
34 Pages

Quantile Forecasting of Wind Power Using Variability Indices

  • Georgios Anastasiades and
  • Patrick McSharry

5 February 2013

Wind power forecasting techniques have received substantial attention recently due to the increasing penetration of wind energy in national power systems. While the initial focus has been on point forecasts, the need to quantify forecast uncertainty...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hybrid Advanced Techniques for Forecasting in Energy Sector)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
4,455 Views
11 Pages

26 July 2018

It is widely considered that solar energy will be one of the most competitive energy sources in the future, and solar energy currently accounts for high percentages of power generation in developed countries. However, its power generation capacity is...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,424 Views
31 Pages

14 September 2022

The paper conducts a literature review of applications of autoregressive methods to short-term forecasting of power demand. This need is dictated by the advancement of modern forecasting methods and their achievement in good forecasting efficiency in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Forecasting and Optimization in Electrical Power Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,106 Views
20 Pages

Parameter Evaluation in Motion Estimation for Forecasting Multiple Photovoltaic Power Generation

  • Taiki Kure,
  • Haruka Danil Tsuchiya,
  • Yusuke Kameda,
  • Hiroki Yamamoto and ,
  • Daisuke Kodaira and
  • Junji Kondoh
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 April 2022

The power-generation capacity of grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) power systems is increasing. As output power forecasting is required by electricity market participants and utility operators for the stable operation of power systems, several methods...

(This article belongs to the Topic Solar Thermal Energy and Photovoltaic Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
150 Citations
23,932 Views
40 Pages

A Review of Modern Wind Power Generation Forecasting Technologies

  • Wen-Chang Tsai,
  • Chih-Ming Hong,
  • Chia-Sheng Tu,
  • Whei-Min Lin and
  • Chiung-Hsing Chen

8 July 2023

The prediction of wind power output is part of the basic work of power grid dispatching and energy distribution. At present, the output power prediction is mainly obtained by fitting and regressing the historical data. The medium- and long-term power...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,407 Views
21 Pages

Intra-Day Solar Power Forecasting Strategy for Managing Virtual Power Plants

  • Guillermo Moreno,
  • Carlos Santos,
  • Pedro Martín,
  • Francisco Javier Rodríguez and ,
  • Rafael Peña and
  • Branislav Vuksanovic
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 August 2021

Solar energy penetration has been on the rise worldwide during the past decade, attracting a growing interest in solar power forecasting over short time horizons. The increasing integration of these resources without accurate power forecasts hinders...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Sensor for Smartgrids and Microgrids)
  • Review
  • Open Access
94 Citations
7,927 Views
28 Pages

Advancements and Challenges in Photovoltaic Power Forecasting: A Comprehensive Review

  • Paolo Di Leo,
  • Alessandro Ciocia,
  • Gabriele Malgaroli and
  • Filippo Spertino

19 April 2025

The fast growth of photovoltaic (PV) power generation requires dependable forecasting methods to support efficient integration of solar energy into power systems. This study conducts an up-to-date, systematized analysis of different models and method...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Forecasting of Photovoltaic Power Generation and Model Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
3,737 Views
21 Pages

23 July 2020

The accuracy of wind power forecasting depends a great deal on the data quality, which is so susceptible to cybersecurity attacks. In this paper, we study the cybersecurity issue of short-term wind power forecasting. We present one class of data atta...

(This article belongs to the Section A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
96 Citations
12,217 Views
21 Pages

Wind Power Forecasting with Deep Learning Networks: Time-Series Forecasting

  • Wen-Hui Lin,
  • Ping Wang,
  • Kuo-Ming Chao,
  • Hsiao-Chung Lin and ,
  • Zong-Yu Yang and
  • Yu-Huang Lai
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 November 2021

Studies have demonstrated that changes in the climate affect wind power forecasting under different weather conditions. Theoretically, accurate prediction of both wind power output and weather changes using statistics-based prediction models is diffi...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applied in Civil Engineering)
  • Review
  • Open Access
97 Citations
9,027 Views
22 Pages

Completed Review of Various Solar Power Forecasting Techniques Considering Different Viewpoints

  • Yuan-Kang Wu,
  • Cheng-Liang Huang,
  • Quoc-Thang Phan and
  • Yuan-Yao Li

2 May 2022

Solar power has rapidly become an increasingly important energy source in many countries over recent years; however, the intermittent nature of photovoltaic (PV) power generation has a significant impact on existing power systems. To reduce this unce...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Wind and Solar Farm Forecasting)
  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,932 Views
30 Pages

23 July 2025

This review examines advancements and methodologies in long-term wind-speed and -power forecasting. It emphasizes the importance of these techniques in integrating wind energy into power systems. Covering a range of forecasting timeframes from monthl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wind‑Speed Variability from Tropopause to Surface)
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  • Open Access

12 November 2026

Forecast errors in significant wave height and dominant wave period can propagate differently to wave energy converter (WEC) power, depending on error direction and the device response. Hourly records from NDBC Station 46014 (2019–2020) were us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
5,798 Views
19 Pages

25 January 2021

In recent years, wind energy has become a competitively priced source of energy around the world, which has created increasing challenges for system operators. Accurate wind power generation forecasting plays an important role in power systems to imp...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,454 Views
40 Pages

State-of-the-Art Using Bibliometric Analysis of Wind-Speed and -Power Forecasting Methods Applied in Power Systems

  • Ana Lagos,
  • Joaquín E. Caicedo,
  • Gustavo Coria,
  • Andrés Romero Quete and ,
  • Maximiliano Martínez,
  • Gastón Suvire and
  • Jesús Riquelme
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

7 September 2022

The integration of wind energy into power systems has intensified as a result of the urgency for global energy transition. This requires more accurate forecasting techniques that can capture the variability of the wind resource to achieve better oper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
199 Views
24 Pages

8 October 2026

Local power changes, weak-output states, and changing interval coverage complicate ultra-short-term wind power forecasting. This study develops power-increment enhancement and signed adaptive conformal inference (PIE-SACI) to address these challenges...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Forecasting Methods for Sustainable Power Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,815 Views
20 Pages

10 March 2015

Analysis of urban saturated power loads is helpful to coordinate urban power grid construction and economic social development. There are two different kinds of forecasting models: the logistic curve model focuses on the growth law of the data itself...

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  • Open Access
350 Views
19 Pages

Probabilistic Forecasting of Regional Photovoltaic Power Based on QR-STGAT

  • Xuchen Tang,
  • Huican Chen,
  • Qiqi Lu,
  • Cong Fu and ,
  • Jingyao Zeng,
  • Yun Yang and
  • Jun Zeng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 June 2026

As the penetration rate of photovoltaic power generation continues to increase within new power systems, accurately forecasting regional PV power output has become critical to ensuring the safe and stable operation of power grids. Photovoltaic power...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,433 Views
22 Pages

28 December 2025

Wind power forecasting is critical to renewable energy generation, as accurate predictions are essential for the efficient and reliable operation of power systems. However, wind power output is inherently unstable and is strongly affected by meteorol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,285 Views
15 Pages

Prediction Error-Based Power Forecasting of Wind Energy System Using Hybrid WT–ROPSO–NARMAX Model

  • Aamer A. Shah,
  • Almani A. Aftab,
  • Xueshan Han,
  • Mazhar Hussain Baloch and ,
  • Mohamed Shaik Honnurvali and
  • Sohaib Tahir Chauhdary
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 April 2023

The volatility and intermittency of wind energy result in highly unpredictable wind power output, which poses challenges to the stability of the intact power system when integrating large-scale wind power. The accuracy of wind power prediction is cri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Artificial Intelligence Application for Power Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
8,784 Views
26 Pages

3 September 2015

A benchmarking exercise was organized within the framework of the European Action Weather Intelligence for Renewable Energies (“WIRE”) with the purpose of evaluating the performance of state of the art models for short-term renewable energy forecasti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Forecasting Methods and Measurements of Forecasting Errors for Renewable Energy Sources)
  • Review
  • Open Access
87 Citations
12,300 Views
35 Pages

Deep Learning Models for PV Power Forecasting: Review

  • Junfeng Yu,
  • Xiaodong Li,
  • Lei Yang,
  • Linze Li and ,
  • Zhichao Huang,
  • Keyan Shen,
  • Xu Yang,
  • Xu Yang,
  • Zhikang Xu and
  • Shuai Du
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

10 August 2024

Accurate forecasting of photovoltaic (PV) power is essential for grid scheduling and energy management. In recent years, deep learning technology has made significant progress in time-series forecasting, offering new solutions for PV power forecastin...

(This article belongs to the Topic Clean and Low Carbon Energy, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
4,784 Views
11 Pages

1 March 2020

The number of wind-generating resources has increased considerably, owing to concerns over the environmental impact of fossil-fuel combustion. Therefore, wind power forecasting is becoming an important issue for large-scale wind power grid integratio...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
4,743 Views
19 Pages

Wind Power Short-Term Forecasting Hybrid Model Based on CEEMD-SE Method

  • Keke Wang,
  • Dongxiao Niu,
  • Lijie Sun,
  • Hao Zhen and ,
  • Jian Liu,
  • Gejirifu De and
  • Xiaomin Xu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

11 November 2019

Accurately predicting wind power is crucial for the large-scale grid-connected of wind power and the increase of wind power absorption proportion. To improve the forecasting accuracy of wind power, a hybrid forecasting model using data preprocessing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy, Economic and Environment for Industrial Production Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,507 Views
11 Pages

Forecasting of Power Demands Using Deep Learning

  • Taehyung Kang,
  • Dae Yeong Lim,
  • Hilal Tayara and
  • Kil To Chong

16 October 2020

The forecasting of electricity demands is important for planning for power generator sector improvement and preparing for periodical operations. The prediction of future electricity demand is a challenging task due to the complexity of the available...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
5,444 Views
27 Pages

2 August 2018

Existing works in photovoltaic (PV) power generation focus on accurately predicting the PV power output on a forecast horizon. As the solar power generation is heavily influenced by meteorological conditions such as solar radiation, the weather forec...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,221 Views
14 Pages

25 November 2017

An accurate forecast of the power generated by a wind turbine is of paramount importance for its optimal exploitation. Several forecasting methods have been proposed either based on a physical modeling or using a statistical approach. All of them rel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
8,166 Views
14 Pages

4 February 2020

The purpose of this study is to design a novel custom power demand forecasting algorithm based on the LSTM Deep-Learning method regarding the recent power demand patterns. We performed tests to verify the error rates of the forecasting module, and to...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Electric Power Systems Research)
  • Review
  • Open Access
137 Citations
14,467 Views
35 Pages

The need to turn to more environmentally friendly sources of energy has led energy systems to focus on renewable sources of energy. Wind power has been a widely used source of green energy. However, the wind’s stochastic and unpredictable behav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
423 Views
19 Pages

Physics-Guided Deep Learning for Short-Term Probabilistic Offshore Wind Power Forecasting

  • Xiuyong Zhao,
  • Haichuan Long,
  • Kaize Liu,
  • Jiawei Wan and ,
  • Jingxin Xu,
  • Wenxin Tian,
  • Jian Yin and
  • Zhiqiu Gao
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

22 September 2026

To address the nonlinear amplification of numerical weather prediction (NWP) errors and the difficult trade-off between coverage and sharpness in short-term offshore wind power forecasting, this paper proposes PRWind, a physics-guided framework for s...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)

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