The Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP2): Observational Field Campaign
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, CO (United States). Earth System Research Lab.
- Vaisala, Inc., Seattle, WA (United States)
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sharply Focused, LLC, Portland, OR (United States)
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). Cooperative Inst. for Research in Environmental Sciences; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, CO (United States). Earth System Research Lab.
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences; National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
- Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (United States). Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Idaho Falls, ID (United States). Air Resources Lab.
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- Univ. Stuttgart, Stuttgart Germany). Inst. für Flugzeugbau, Stuttgarter Lehrstuhl für Windenergie, WindForS
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Washington, D.C. (United States). National Weather Service
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
The Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP2) is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)- and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-funded program, with private-sector and university partners, which aims to improve the accuracy of numerical weather prediction (NWP) model forecasts of wind speed in complex terrain for wind energy applications. A core component of WFIP2 was an 18-month field campaign that took place in the U.S. Pacific Northwest between October 2015 and March 2017. A large suite of instrumentation was deployed in a series of telescoping arrays, ranging from 500 km across to a densely instrumented 2 km × 2 km area similar in size to a high-resolution NWP model grid cell. Observations from these instruments are being used to improve our understanding of the meteorological phenomena that affect wind energy production in complex terrain and to evaluate and improve model physical parameterization schemes. We present several brief case studies using these observations to describe phenomena that are routinely difficult to forecast, including wintertime cold pools, diurnally driven gap flows, and mountain waves/wakes. Observing system and data product improvements developed during WFIP2 are also described.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Wind Energy Technologies Office; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Water Power Technologies Office
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357; AC05-76RL01830; AC36-08GO28308; AC52-07NA27344; EE0007605
- OSTI ID:
- 1579363
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1512667; OSTI ID: 1570414; OSTI ID: 1570766
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/JA-5000-72249; LLNL-JRNL-756933; PNNL-SA-139211; 147629
- Journal Information:
- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 100, Issue 9; ISSN 0003-0007
- Publisher:
- American Meteorological SocietyCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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