Mapping Offshore Winds Around Iceland Using Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar and Mesoscale Model Simulations

Charlotte Bay Hasager; Merete Badger; Nikolai Nawri; Birgitte Rugaard Furevik; Guðrún Nína  Petersen; Halldór  Björnsson; Niels-Erik Clausen

doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2443981

Mapping Offshore Winds Around Iceland Using Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar and Mesoscale Model Simulations

Charlotte Bay Hasager, Merete Badger, Nikolai Nawri, Birgitte Rugaard Furevik, Guðrún Nína Petersen, Halldór Björnsson, Niels-Erik Clausen

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The offshore wind climate in Iceland is examined based on satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR), coastal meteorological station measurements, and results from two atmospheric model data sets, HARMONIE and NORA10. The offshore winds in Iceland are highly influenced by the rugged coastline. Lee effects, gap flow, coastal barrier jets, and atmospheric gravity waves are not only observed in SAR, but are also modeled well from HARMONIE. Offshore meteorological observations are not available, but wind speed and wind direction measurements from coastal meteorological masts are found to compare well to nearby offshore locations observed by SAR. More than 2500 SAR scenes from the Envisat ASAR wide swathmode are used for wind energy resource estimation. The wind energy potential observed from satellite SAR shows high values above 1000 Wm ⁻² in coastal regions in the south, east, and west, with lower values in the north. The most promising region for wind energy production is the southwestern coastal region.

Original language	English
Journal	I E E E Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Volume	8
Issue number	12
Pages (from-to)	5541-5552
Number of pages	12
ISSN	1939-1404
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2443981
Publication status	Published - 2015

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This work was part of the project “Improved Forecast of Wind, Waves and Icing” (ICEWIND), www.icewind.dtu.dk, supported by the Nordic Top-level Research Initiative (Toppforskningsinitiativet; TFI), including national and private organizations. Satellite data from the European Space Agency, ESA Grant EO-14048 and Grant EO-6773

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Offshore resource
Polarization ratio (PR)
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
Wind energy
Wind speed

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ICEWIND: ICEWIND: Improved forecast of wind, waves and icing
Clausen, N.-E. (Project Manager), Hasager, C. B. (Project Participant), Hahmann, A. N. (Project Participant), Davis, N. (Project Participant), Badger, M. (Project Participant) & Giebel, G. (Project Participant)
01/09/2010 → 28/02/2015
Project: Research

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Hasager, C. B., Badger, M., Nawri, N., Rugaard Furevik, B., Petersen, G. N., Björnsson, H., & Clausen, N.-E. (2015). Mapping Offshore Winds Around Iceland Using Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar and Mesoscale Model Simulations. I E E E Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 8(12), 5541-5552. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2443981

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Mapping Offshore Winds Around Iceland Using Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar and Mesoscale Model Simulations. / Hasager, Charlotte Bay; Badger, Merete; Nawri, Nikolai et al.
In: I E E E Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Vol. 8, No. 12, 2015, p. 5541-5552.

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Mapping Offshore Winds Around Iceland Using Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar and Mesoscale Model Simulations

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