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- Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
- Sprache: Englisch
Most practitioners within wind energy have only a very basic knowledge about meteorology, leading to a lack of understanding of one of the most fundamental subjects in wind energy. This book will therefore provide an easy-to-understand introduction to the subject of meteorology, as seen from the viewpoint of wind energy.
Catering for a range of academic backgrounds, the book is mathematically rigorous with accessible explanations for non-mathematically oriented readers. Through exercises in the text and at the end of each chapter the reader will be challenged to think, seek further information and practice the knowledge obtained from reading the book.
This practical yet comprehensive reference will enable readers to fully understand the theoretical background of meteorology with wind energy in mind and will include topics such as: measurements; wind profiles; wakes; modelling; turbulence and the fundamentals of atmospheric flow on all scales including the local scale.
Key features:
• Provides practitioners of wind energy with a solid theoretical grounding in relevant aspects of meteorology enabling them to exercise useful judgment in matters related to resource estimation, wind farm development, planning, turbine design and electrical grids.
• Supports a growing area of professional development with the increasing importance of wind energy estimation in all aspects of electrical energy production from wind.
• Accompanying website includes data sets for exercises in data analysis, photographs, animations & worked examples, helping to further bridge the gap between theory and practice.
Meteorology for Wind Energy: An Introduction is aimed at engineers, developers and project managers in the wind power and electrical utility sectors without the essential theoretical background required to understand the topic. It will also have significant appeal to senior undergraduate and postgraduate students of Wind Energy, Environmental Studies or Renewables Studies.
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METEOROLOGY FOR WIND ENERGY
AN INTRODUCTION
Lars Landberg
DNV GL, Copenhagen, Denmark
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CONTENTS
About the Author
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction
Notes
Chapter 2: Meteorological Basics
2.1 Why Does the Wind Blow?
2.2 The Vertical Structure of the Atmosphere
2.3 Atmospheric Variables and Forces
2.4 Length and Time Scales of Atmospheric Flow
2.5 Larger-Scale Systems (aka Weather)
2.6 Summary
Exercises
Notes
Chapter 3: Measurements
3.1 Philosophy: What Does it Mean to Measure?
3.2 What Do We Measure?
3.3 Measurement Theory, or Different Ways to Treat the Data
3.4 Practice
3.5 Summary
Exercises
Notes
Chapter 4: The Wind Profile
4.1 A Hand-Waving Way of Deriving the Simple Log Profile
4.2 Working with the Log Profile
4.3 The Power Law
4.4 Averaging Times and Other Dependencies
4.5 Two Famous Profiles
4.6 Zero-Plane Displacement
4.7 Internal Boundary Layers
4.8 Stability
4.9 Monin–Obukhov Theory
4.10 Deviations with Height
4.11 Connection with Geostrophic Drag Law
4.12 Effect of Orography, Obstacles and Thermal Flows on the Profile
4.13 Direction Profile
4.14 Summary
Exercises
Notes
Chapter 5: Local Flow
5.1 Local Effects
5.2 Orographic Forcing
5.3 Roughness
5.4 Obstacles
5.5 Thermally Driven Flows
5.6 Effect of Stability
5.7 Summary
Exercises
Notes
Chapter 6: Turbulence
6.1 What Generates Turbulence?
6.2 Reynolds Decomposition and Averaging
6.3 Spectra
6.4 Measuring Turbulence
6.5 Turbulent Loads
6.6 Extreme Winds
6.7 Summary
Exercises
Notes
Chapter 7: Wakes
7.1 Turbine-to-Turbine Wakes
7.2 Several Wind Turbines, that is, a Wind Farm
7.3 Advanced Topics
7.4 Summary
Exercises
Notes
Chapter 8: Modelling
8.1 Modelling and What it Means
8.2 Input
8.3 Modelling
8.4 Output
8.5 Errors
8.6 So, What is a Good Model?
8.7 Chaos
8.8 Summary
Exercises
Note
Chapter 9: Conclusion
Appendix A: Cheat Sheet
Appendix B: Answers to Exercises: Appendix B: Answers to Exercises
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Meteorological Basics
Chapter 3 Measurements
Chapter 4 The Wind Profile
Chapter 5 Local Flow
Chapter 6 Turbulence
Chapter 7 Wakes
Chapter 8 Modelling
Chapter 9 Conclusion
Appendix C: Sample Wind Speed and Direction Data
References
Index
EULA
List of Tables
Chapter 2
Table 2.1
Table 2.2
Chapter 3
Table 3.1
Table 3.2
Table 3.3
Chapter 4
Table 4.1
Chapter 5
Table 5.1
Table 5.2
Chapter 6
Table 6.1
Chapter 7
Table 7.1
Table 7.2
Guide
Cover
Table of Contents
Preface
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About the Author
Lars Landberg (born 1964) has been working in the wind energy field since 1989: the first 18 years at Risø National Laboratory (now DTU Wind), a research lab in Denmark, and since then at Garrad Hassan (now DNV GL), a global wind energy consulting company. His main areas of expertise are wind resource estimation and short-term prediction of wind power. Lars has taught meteorology-related courses to the wind energy industry since the first Risø WAsP course in 1991. Lars has a PhD in physics and geophysics from the University of Copenhagen and an MBA from Warwick Business School, United Kingdom.
Foreword
Lars Landberg is right that there are too many of us using the wind without understanding it. Lars’ book will help address that problem and it will entertain as well as educate. He has already taught much of the wind industry about meteorology and, through this book his undoubted didactic talents will reach a much wider audience. Part of his job at Garrad Hassan was to encourage free thinking and who better to do that than someone who cut his meteorological teeth on the Martian weather? You can be sure that he will bring a refreshing approach to this difficult subject.
Our generation has witnessed an extraordinary transition in the electricity industry. Wind used to occupy a position on its fringes where we were patronised as eccentric and naïve ideologists – now this fantastic industry is part of the main stream driven by clean and powerful wind. Being able to make a reasonable job of predicting both the behaviour of the wind and the resulting behaviour of the turbines and wind farms has been an essential part of that success.
I have known Lars Landberg for a long time, first as a fellow wind energy enthusiast, then as a colleague and a friend. He was a member of the Garrad Hassan board and it was certainly stimulating to have a board member who had written a book called ‘Strategy: No Thanks!’. From that title you can deduce that this book will have unexpected dimensions to it. I came across the Ekman spiral (my first acquaintance with meteorology) while writing my undergraduate thesis in 1973. I am ashamed to say that I did not know that Ekman was a Swede until I opened this book.
Preface
Having taught various aspects of meteorology to all kinds of people working in wind energy since 1991, I was very happy to accept the kind offer from Wiley to write a book on the subject. Wind energy, probably like many other ‘new’ fields, not having a dedicated and established way of teaching the subject (like e.g. medicine), sees people entering the field from a multitude of technical and academic backgrounds, but rarely from meteorology. Often, therefore, the meteorology that people know, is taught to them on a need-to-know basis when they join their companies. This means that I, over the years, have met many people who have lacked the fundamentals of meteorology (general as well as the more specific area of boundary-layer meteorology), and when attending the various courses that I have taught, have expressed great satisfaction in knowing the basics, even though this is ‘only’ nice to know.
When writing this book, I have had the above-mentioned varied technical and academic background of the reader in mind, so do not expect a PhD-level book, but expect to be able to understand the meteorological basics of what you do every day. As a general principle, I have gone for hand-waving understanding, rather than strict physical explanations, so some corners have inevitably been cut, but I have done my utmost to make sure you are being made aware of this when it happens. In doing so, I might also have made some errors (I hope not of course), and the website (larslandberg.dk/windbook, see QR code in margin) will be updated as soon as I have been made aware of any.
Another important point to stress is that the atmosphere is a complex, interconnected, three-dimensional physical system. This means that in order to understand it fully (which nobody does, actually), one needs to solve the entire set of physical laws that govern this system, this is first of all difficult, but secondly it only explains the atmosphere to the level of a black box. So what we will do in this book is that we will zoom in on different aspects, like the low-pressure system, which of course only is a reflection of the laws of motion, temperature and humidity, but dissecting it into fronts helps us understand it much better, in a very useful hand-waving way.
The general idea is that I use simple maths to explain things, so if I can ask you not to be afraid of this, I promise you that I shall guide you through the various lines of reasoning in a safe manner! Also, it is a good idea to fire your favourite spreadsheet up; it is good for looking at numbers and plotting them. In the more difficult or important parts of the text, I have inserted exercises directly in the text, and in many cases I have also done those exercises as part of the text. Despite the fact that you have the answer right after the exercise, please try to have a go at it first; your understanding of the subject will benefit immensely. If you absolutely hate maths, there is also a path through the book, where you can just read the text and not do any of the exercises, it will not be as fun, of course, but it can be done.
For people interested in digging just one layer deeper, I have inserted boxes in various places along the way. These boxes shall focus on one topic, often quite technical, and explain a bit more about it. If the subject does not interest you, you should be able to skip these boxes without disturbing your overall understanding of the text.
To make the various equations a bit more personal, I have also, in many places, inserted a brief description of the person or persons behind the equation. There are a lot of men in those boxes, despite the fact that I have tried to get both sexes represented.
The structure of the book is that we start with the meteorological basics, where the scene will be set and some fundamentals of general meteorology will be covered. We will then discuss measurements, where some measurement philosophy, theory and basics will be covered. Whether measurements are carried out by means of a mast or a remote-sensing device, the result is a picture of the vertical structure of the atmosphere at the measuring location, we will therefore cover the theory of this vertical structure, often called the wind profile. The wind profile is the result of atmospheric flow on many scales and understanding the flows makes us able to infer the profiles (and in many cases vice versa). Two further aspects will then be covered: turbulence and wakes.
Having gone from measurements via flow on all scales to wakes, the circle is complete in some sense; however, in order to understand these topics in more detail, we have introduced a great number of models and it is appropriate to have a chapter on the general aspects of modelling (Chapter 8), where no new models will be introduced, but the more philosophical and theoretical aspects of modelling will be discussed.
Lars Landberg Copenhagen, Denmark
Kaze: The Japanese kanji for ‘wind’ by Shigemi Nakata
Acknowledgements
The material for this book has been built up in my mind ever since I started working in wind energy, which is 26 years ago. I have met so many people who have taught, inspired and discussed with me, and it is, unfortunately, impossible to list them all here. But I would like to highlight and deeply thank the following people:
At the University of Copenhagen, Aksel Walløe Hansen has been the supervisor on my Masters as well as my PhD thesis: you have always been a great supervisor, and always asked difficult questions that have brought me forward!
At Risø (now DTU Wind), I would like to thank the entire Meteorology Group, but in particular, the members of the WAsP team: Niels Gylling Mortensen, Ole Rathmann, Lisbeth Myllerup and Rikke Nielsen. We have worked together on many of the ideas that you find in this book; thank you for a great time together. Outside the WAsP team my good colleagues Søren E. Larsen, Erik Lundtang Petersen, Leif Kristensen, Jakob Mann and Hans E. Jørgensen also deserve a great thank you, again many of the ideas in my head (and in this book) originated from discussions with you guys.
At Garrad Hassan (now DNV GL), I would in particular like to thank Andrew Garrad. He was the one who saw a business in teaching meteorology to wind energy people and prompted me to develop the course that many of the ideas in this book are based on.
Before starting the book, I would also like to thank the five anonymous reviewers for taking the time to look through the original proposal for the book and making some very useful suggestions, many of which have been included. Wolfgang Schlez, for help in understanding the depths of the Ainslie wake model and also for reading through the wakes chapter and providing very valuable input. Jean-François Corbett, for meticulously reading through the Local Flow and Modelling chapters and also producing very valuable feedback.
I would also like to thank Kurt S. Hansen and winddata.com, for allowing me to use the data for the exercises and examples in the chapter on Measurements.
Thank you also to Søren William Lund, who so readily and without warning lined up a lot of instruments for a ‘photo session’.
Shigemi Nakata, for the beautiful kanji that you find on the front cover and on page xvi: domo arigato gozaimasu!
Andrew Garrad has also very kindly written the foreword to this book: thank you very very much, Andrew.
And a general thank you to all the copyright holders who have all – without exception – replied swiftly and positively to my many requests for use of their material.
The author thanks the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) for permission to reproduce information from its International Standard IEC 61400-1 ed.3.0 (2005). All such extracts are copyright of IEC, Geneva, Switzerland. All rights reserved. Further information on the IEC is available from www.iec.ch. IEC has no responsibility for the placement and context in which the extracts and contents are reproduced by the author, nor is IEC in any way responsible for the other content or accuracy therein.
List of Abbreviations
ABL
Atmospheric boundary layer
agl
above ground level
CFD
Computational fluid dynamics
DNS
Direct numerical simulation
ENSO
El Ninõ Southern Oscillation
GPS
Global Positioning System
GTS
Global Telecommunication System
IBL
Internal boundary layer
IEC
International Electrotechnical Commission
IPK
International Prototype of the Kilogram
ISA
International Standard Atmosphere
ISO
International Organization for Standardization
ITCZ
Inter Tropical Convergence Zone
LES
Large eddy simulation
MCP
Measure–Correlate–Predict
NAO
North Atlantic Oscillation
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCAR
National Center for Atmospheric Research
NCEP
National Centers for Environmental Prediction
NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NWP
Numerical Weather Prediction
PBL
Planetary boundary layer
RANS
Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes
SAR
Synthetic Aperture Radar
SOI
Southern Oscillation Index
SST
Sea surface temperature
UN
United Nations
WAsP
Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Programme
WMO
World Meteorological Organisation
WRF
Weather Research and Forecasting
1Introduction
This book is about the meteorological aspects of wind energy.1 There are mainly two areas which are ‘affected by the wind’: wind resource estimation and loads. This book will focus on the meteorological aspects of wind resources, but loads will also be discussed, mainly in the chapter on turbulence (Chapter 6).
The structure of the book is, as a general principle, that each chapter will describe one subject and start with the basics, then the intermediate and lastly the more advanced topics of each subject. Depending on what you are interested in, in the various subject areas, you can stop when you have reached the level you are looking for. At the end of each chapter I have put some exercises: some are quite basic, just using what you have learnt, some more technical requiring calculations, etc. and some are more open-ended, just to get you to think about things. In other cases, where it fitted better with the flow of the chapter, I have put exercises right in the text; they are intended for you to pause and think. Some of the exercises are solved in the text following the exercise, because the point is so important, that you need to know the answer in order to proceed, others are solved in the Answers appendix. The answer to each of the exercises can be found in the back (Appendix B). To solve the exercises all you need is pen, paper and a pocket calculator, but you will make your life much easier if you use a spreadsheet.
In many places in the text you will find references to books, articles, websites, etc. These are meant, firstly to follow the academic tradition of acknowledging other peoples’ work, but also to point you in a specific direction, where you will be able to learn more. In this day and age, many things can be found for free on the internet. This is, unfortunately, not always the case with references, so consulting a given reference might not always be as easy as just a click away.
As a general principle, I have tried to make the book a journey, and one where I walk along with you. This might have led to a bit of a chatty style in places, but I think overall, by presenting the subjects in this way, your learning should be helped significantly.
The sequence of the chapters is as follows: First we start with a chapter on meteorological basics (Chapter 2) where the scene will be set and some fundamentals of general meteorology will be covered. We will then discuss measurements (Chapter 3), where some measurement philosophy, theory and basics will be covered. Whether measurements are carried out by means of a mast or a remote-sensing device, the result could be a picture of the vertical structure of the atmosphere at the measuring location, the following chapter (Chapter 4) therefore covers the theory of this vertical structure, often called the wind profile. The wind profile is the result of atmospheric flow on many scales, and in many ways this is like being shown the needle and then asked to describe the haystack! But understanding the various flows makes us able to infer the profiles (and in many cases vice versa), so these flows will be described in the next chapter (Chapter 5). Two further aspects will then be covered: turbulence (Chapter 6), which is quite a technical subject, but I will do my best to explain and then, finally, wakes (Chapter 7), that is the downstream reduction of the wind speed due to the wind turbine.
Having gone from measurements via flow on all scales to wakes, the circle is complete in some sense; however, in order to understand all of this in more detail, various models have been introduced and it is therefore appropriate to have a chapter on the general aspects of modelling (Chapter 8), where no new models will be introduced, but the more philosophical and theoretical aspects of modelling will be discussed.
Finally, some conclusions will be drawn (Chapter 9) and the list of references will be given. As a quick way of summarising the most important formulae and points, you will, in Appendix A, find a ‘cheat sheet’, which can be used as a quick reference guide. In Appendix B answers to all the exercises will be given.
The book also has an accompanying website (larslandberg.dk/windbook, see QR code in margin), where data for some of the exercises can be found. Here you will also find a few videos, an area where I will discuss each chapter further (in cases where new information becomes available), list the errata (if any!) and finally I will post news items of various kinds there as well.
