Accurately simulating near-surface wind speeds is indispensable for wind energy development, particularly under extreme weather conditions. This study utilizes the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model with a 6 km resolution to evaluate 80 m w...
Accurate forecasts of near-surface winds are important for low-altitude aviation, unmanned aerial vehicle operations, and local weather services. Compared with single-station forecasting, multi-station forecasting can exploit complementary spatial in...
This study evaluates projected changes to surface wind characteristics for the 2071–2100 period over North America (NA), using four Global Environmental Multiscale regional climate model simulations, driven by two global climate models (GCMs) f...
The Actuator Disk (AD) model is widely used in Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) to simulate wind turbine wakes because of its computing efficiency. The capability of the AD model in predicting time-average quantities of wind tunnel-scale turbines has bee...
The purpose of the study is to assess the suitability of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data to provide sea surface wind (SSW) fields along with a spatial distribution of both SSW speed and direction uncertainty. A simple methodology based on geophys...
Information about wind variations and future wind conditions is essential for a monsoon domain such as the Northwest Pacific (NWP) region. This study utilizes 10 Generalized Circulation Models (GCM) from CMIP6 to evaluate near-future wind changes in...
Utilizing observed wind speed and direction data from observation stations near the Taiwan Strait and ocean buoys, along with forecast data from the EC model, GRAPES_GFS model, and PanGu weather prediction model within the same period, RMSE, MAE, CC,...
In this study, offshore wind climate assessments are carried out by using mesoscale model Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) and validated by measurement at a demonstration site located 3.1 km offshore of Choshi. An optimal nudging method is inve...
This paper focuses on sea surface wind speed estimation based on cyclone global navigation satellite system reflectometry (GNSS-R) data. In order to extract useful information from delay-Doppler map (DDM) data, three delay waveforms are presented for...
Ice formation on structures like wind turbine blade airfoils significantly reduces their aerodynamic efficiency. The presence of ice on airfoils causes deformation in their geometry and an increase in their surface roughness, enhancing turbulence, pa...
This article presents a model study of the dynamics of icebergs and surface floats in the Labrador Sea. The model was forced with data on the wind above the ocean surface, surface waves, and ocean currents. These data were obtained from the reanalysi...
The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model is used to investigate choice of land surface model (LSM) on the near surface wind profile, including heights reached by multi-megawatt (MW) wind turbines. Simulations of wind profiles and surface ene...
The spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an effective tool to observe tropical cyclone (TC) wind fields at very high spatial resolutions. TC wind speeds can be retrieved from cross-polarization signals without wind direction inputs. This pape...
This study describes a validation of the surface wind model WindNinja conducted over different types of complex terrain. The Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) 2 km output was used as input for our WindNinja simulations. We tested the surfa...
This study provides, to the best of our knowledge, the first detailed analysis of how surface oil modifies air–sea interactions in a two-way coupled model, i.e., the coupled–ocean–atmosphere–wave–sediment–transport...
Wind power forecasting is a key role for large-scale wind power penetration on conventional electric power systems by understanding stochastic nature of winds. This paper proposes an empirical statistical model for forecasting monthly offshore wind s...
An atmosphere–ocean coupled model is proposed as an optimal numerical prediction method for the offshore wind resource. Meteorological prediction models are mainly used for wind speed prediction, with active studies using atmospheric models. Se...
The Cassini mission made an unexpected discovery when it found evidence of linear dune fields on Titan’s surface. The orientation of the dunes and their interaction with topography allow scientists to estimate the dominant wind direction on the...
In the Adriatic Sea, the sea surface wind forecasts are often underestimated, with detrimental effects on the accuracy of sea level and storm surge predictions. Among the various causes, this mainly depends on the meteorological forcing of the wind....
Near surface wind speed has significant impacts on ecological environment change and climate change. Based on the CN05.1 observation data (a gridded monthly dataset with the resolution of 0.25 latitude by 0.25 longitude over China), this study evalua...
Data-driven predictions of marine environmental variables are typically focused on single variables. However, in real marine environments, there are correlations among different oceanic variables. Additionally, sea–air interactions play a signi...
This study simulated the wind energy density distribution in the Jiaodong Peninsula region using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model. The impacts of different boundary-layer and near-surface parameterization schemes on the simulated wind...
Using the International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS) dataset, this study assessed the surface wind fields from high spatial resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) observations, the fifth generation ECMWF reanalysis for the...
Physical understanding and modeling of Ka-band ocean surface backscatter is challenging due to a lack of measurements. In the framework of the NASA Earth Ventures Suborbital-3 Submesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE) mission, a Ka-Band Ocean c...
This study compared the efficacy of the actuator line and actuator surface models in carrying out large-eddy simulations of a utility-scale wind turbine. A large-eddy simulation with the actuator surface and line models was employed to study the wake...
Reliable in situ observations of sea surface wind (SSW) in tropical cyclones (TCs) remain extremely limited because of the difficulty of operating conventional observing platforms under severe weather conditions. Autonomous, uncrewed surface vehicles...
This work discusses the accuracies of geophysical model functions (GMFs) for retrieval of sea surface wind speed from satellite-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images in Japanese coastal waters characterized by short fetches and variable atmosph...
Typical wind tunnel testing involves a series of configuration changes (to the angles of control surfaces) to simulate the lift and resistance characteristics of control surfaces in different flight conditions. It is very time-consuming and labor-int...
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) offer considerable advantages in predicting evaporation (EVAP), particularly in handling nonlinear relationships and complex interactions among factors like soil surface temperature (SST) and wind speed (WS). In Al M...
Estimation of maximum wind speed associated with tropical cyclones (TCs) is crucial to evaluate potential wind destruction. The Holland B parameter is the key parameter of TC parametric wind field models. It plays an essential role in describing the...
With the rapid development of wind power generation, many marine wind farms have been developed on the offshore intertidal sandbank (OIS) along the coastal regions of Jiangsu Province, China during the last decade. In order to quantitatively assess t...
This study investigates the impact of high-resolution Sea Surface Temperature (SST) boundary conditions on atmospheric simulations over the southwestern Atlantic Ocean (12–27° S, 32–48° W). Numerical experiments were conducted usi...
Racecar aerodynamic development requires well-correlated simulation data for rapid and incremental development cycles. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations and wind tunnel testing are industry-wide tools to perform such development, and the...
In the present study, a new geophysical model function (GMF) is developed for the X-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) on board the Advanced Satellite with New System Architecture for Observation-2 (ASNARO-2) to retrieve accurate offshore wind speed...
Multi-year field measurements of sea surface Ka-band dual-co-polarized (vertical transmit–receive polarization (VV) and horizontal transmit–receive polarization (HH)) radar Doppler characteristics from an oceanographic platform in the Bla...
The wake dynamics of a wind turbine are influenced by the atmospheric turbulence and the wake of its upwind turbine. In this work, we investigate the wake characteristics of a waked wind turbine for four different downwind spacings and three differen...
High-resolution projections of near-surface winds are crucial for ocean circulation and sea level studies in Southeast Asia, a region characterized by complex coastlines and monsoon variability. This study evaluates the added value of dynamical downs...
Offshore wind farms have developed rapidly in Jiangsu Province, China, over the last decade. The existence of offshore wind turbines will inevitably impact hydrological and sedimentary environments. In this paper, a digital elevation model (DEM) of t...
In this study, large eddy simulation (LES) is combined with a turbine model to investigate the wake behind a vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT) in a three-dimensional turbulent flow. Two methods are used to model the subgrid-scale (SGS) stresses: (a)...
Timely and accurate sea surface wind field (SSWF) information plays an important role in marine environmental monitoring, weather forecasting, and other atmospheric science studies. In this study, a piecewise linear model is proposed to retrieve SSWF...
To find the optimal design for an engineering object, thousands of (or even more) simulations should be implemented to obtain the outcome data for the variously designed objects. However, repeating simulations this many times is impossible because a...
This study investigates the effects of Lake Sobradinho, a large reservoir in Northeastern Brazil, on the local near-surface atmospheric and boundary layer conditions. For this purpose, simulations with the regional climate model COSMO-CLM are compare...
Although small in size, the Gulf of Trieste (GoT), a marginal coastal basin in the northern Adriatic Sea, is characterized by very complex dynamics and strong variability of its oceanographic conditions. In April–May 2012, a persistent, large-scale a...
The CBATS (carrier-based aircraft take-off and landing training system) is an important application of virtual reality technology in the simulation field. Large-scale, real-time ocean simulations are the biggest challenge to the authenticity of the v...
Wind energy is a type of renewable and clean energy which has attracted more and more attention all over the world. The Northwest China is a region with the most abundant wind energy not only in China, but also in the whole world. To achieve the goal...
A comprehensive electromagnetic scattering model for ship wakes on the sea surface is proposed to study the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery for ship wakes. Our model considers a coupling of various wave systems, including Kelvin wake, turbulen...
Sea surface emissivity (SSE) is a key variable in the estimation of sea surface temperature and the sea surface radiation budget. A physical base SSE model with adequate accuracy and acceptable computational efficiency is highly desired. This paper d...
The Sea, Lake, and Overland Surges from Hurricanes (SLOSH) model is the operational storm surge model of the National Hurricane Center (NHC). Previous studies have found that the SLOSH model estimates storm surges with an accuracy of ±20%. In...
In response to the deficiency of the detection capability of traditional remote sensing means (scatterometer, microwave radiometer, etc.) for high wind speed above 25 m/s, this paper proposes a GNSS-R technique combined with a machine learning method...
The flow field topology of passenger cars considerably changes under side wind conditions. This changes the surface pressure, aerodynamic force, and drag and performance of a vehicle. In this study, the flow field of a generic passenger vehicle is in...
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