Resource Assessment and Meteorology
Our ambition is to deliver impact by research in meteorological modelling of atmospheric conditions over land and ocean, resulting in understanding, methods and data, relevant at the level of wind turbines, wind farms and the energy system.
Our research focuses on understanding meteorological phenomena affecting wind energy, from turbine site to system level, over terrain and ocean. Multi-scale modelling is the primary approach, validated against measurements. Methods are disseminated to stakeholders via software, datasets, services and publications.
- Physics
- Mathematics
- Applied statistics
- Dynamic meteorology
- Dynamic oceanography
- Boundary-layer meteorology
- Uncertainty quantification
- Climate change and land surface processes
- Air-sea interaction
- Computational methods
- Scientific programming
- Collaborative programming
- Atmospheric flow modelling offshore and over terrain
- Mesoscale and microscale meteorological modelling and analysis
- Turbulence analysis, characterization and modelling
- Site extreme wind and turbulence analysis and modelling
- Software development for model workflows
- Evaluation, validation of Site-specific Wind Conditions (including measurements)
Research area & applications
- Development of multi-scale modelling chain
- Spatial mapping for wind climate estimation and turbine design parameters
- Air-sea interaction and wind-wave coupled modelling
- Interactions of wind, wave, wind farm
- Uncertainty assessment
- Effects of climate change on wind energy resources
- Variability and extremes.