Estimating Air Density Using Observations and Re-Analysis Outputs for Wind Energy Purposes

Rogier Floors and Morten Nielsen
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Rogier Floors: DTU Wind Energy, Technical University of Denmark, Risø Campus, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
Morten Nielsen: DTU Wind Energy, Technical University of Denmark, Risø Campus, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 11, 1-12

Abstract: A method to estimate air density as a function of elevation for wind energy resource assessments is presented. The current practice of using nearby measurements of pressure and temperature is compared with a method that uses re-analysis data. It is found that using re-analysis data to estimate air density gives similar or smaller mean absolute errors compared to using measurements that were on average located 40 km away. A method to interpolate power curves that are valid for different air densities is presented. The new model is implemented in the industry-standard model for wind resource assessment and compared with the current version of that model and shown to lead to more accurate assessment of the air density at different elevations.

Keywords: air density; wind energy; power curves; WAsP; ERA5; CFSR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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