Sensitivity of wind resources to roughness changes: application to real-world sites

Description

Online WEM Master's program, student Renan Venturini de Paula.
"This project entails a sensitivity study of the wind speed-up due to roughness changes, for real-world maps and near-coastal sites in South Africa. A comparison with on-site measurements is possible, though limited by the mast heights. Previously used land-use maps will be employed in a Monte-Carlo setup of WAsP internal boundary layer model calculations, with the roughness lengths perturbed consistent with expected roughness uncertainties. This will facilitate speed-up uncertainty estimation under various assumptions, for the given sites and roughness-change model."

Period	Feb 2019 → Jul 2019