Abstract
The aim of the paper is to present offshore wind farm wake observed from satellite
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) wind fields from RADARSAT-1/-2 and Envisat and to
compare these wakes qualitatively to wind farm wake model results. From some satellite SAR
wind maps very long wakes are observed. These extend several tens of kilometres downwind
e.g. 70 km. Other SAR wind maps show near-field fine scale details of wake behind rows of
turbines. The satellite SAR wind farm wake cases are modelled by different wind farm wake
models including the PARK microscale model, the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF)
model in high resolution and WRF with coupled microscale parametrization.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 012035 |
| Book series | Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Online) |
| Volume | 625 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISSN | 1742-6596 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
| Event | Wake Conference 2015 - Visby, Sweden Duration: 9 Jun 2015 → 11 Jun 2015 |
Conference
| Conference | Wake Conference 2015 |
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| Country | Sweden |
| City | Visby |
| Period | 09/06/2015 → 11/06/2015 |
Cite this
Hasager, C. B., Vincent, P., Husson, R., Mouche, A., Badger, M., Pena Diaz, A., Volker, P., Badger, J., di Bella, A., Palomares, A., Cantero, E., & Correia, P. M. F. (2015). Comparing satellite SAR and wind farm wake models. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Online), 625, [012035]. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/625/1/012035