IMPOWR
The IMPOWR project (Improving the Mapping and Prediction of Offshore Wind Resources) was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DE-EE000537) and lead by SUNY’s Stony Brook University. Our goal was to improve the treatment of the boundary layer winds in mesoscale models, such as the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model, via measurements and ensemble modeling. The project used ocean and atmospheric measurements taken at an offshore meteorological tower (owned by Cape Wind) and by a Long-EZ research aircraft to validate the WRF model.
Photo of the Cape Wind offshore tower in the middle of the Nantucket Sound in 2013.
Links
SUNY’s IMPOWR project website;
Download IMPOWR data from the DOE portal.
Publications
Golbazi, M., and C. L. Archer, 2019: Methods to estimate surface roughness length for offshore wind energy. Advances in Meteorology, 2019, 5695481, 15 pp., doi: 10.1155/2019/5695481.
Archer, C. L., B. A. Colle, D. L. Veron, F. Veron, and M. J. Sienkiewicz, 2016: On the predominance of unstable atmospheric conditions in the marine boundary layer offshore of the U.S. northeastern coast. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, doi: 10.1002/2016JD024896.
Colle, B. A., M. J. Sienkiewicz, C. L. Archer, D. L. Veron, F. Veron, W. Kempton, and J. E. Mak, 2016: Improving the Mapping and Prediction of Offshore Wind Resources (IMPOWR): Experimental overview and first results. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00253.1.