WAsP engineering - Wind conditions for wind turbine design

The project objective is to develop and verify windpower meteorology based design tools for prediction and assessment of wind conditions for design of wind turbines in homogenous and complex terrain or off-shore. The design tools will use and extend the methology developed for the Danish and the European wind atlas. The main project elements are: 1) Measurements and analysis of meteorological data - setup of atmospheric pressure measurements to measure the geographic variation of the wind condition over Denmark - analysis of available wind data for coast-near Danish waters. 2) Developments of models - roughness and stability models over water - models for intensity and spectra of turbulence taking into account geography, stability and wind speed - model for turbulence spectra for inhomogenous and complex terrain - model for extreme wind as function of return period and geographic location. 3) Development of utility-module and reference data for WAsP - analysis and preparation of reference dataset for Danish terrain and waters - development and verification of a WAsP utility module. The duration of the project is 3 years with start in 1997. The developed design tool for prediction of specific wind conditions for design of wind turbines will be distributed as a utility-module to all Danish users of the WAsP, the wind resource assessment programme development by Risø