Handbook of Wind Resource Assessment

Handbook of Wind Resource Assessment provides a comprehensive description of the background theory, methods, models, applications, and analysis of the discipline of wind resource assessment. It covers topics such as climate variability, measurement, wind distributions, numerical modelling, statistical modelling, reanalysis datasets, applications in different environments (onshore and offshore), wind atlases, and future climate.

The text offers an up-to-date assessment of the tools available for wind resource assessment and their application in varied environments. It also summarises our current understanding of the wind climate and its variability, focusing particularly on its relevance to wind resource assessment.

Authored by a highly qualified professional in the fields of wind resource assessment, wind turbine condition monitoring, and wind turbine wake modelling, sample topics included in Handbook of Wind Resource Assessment are as follows:

• Climate variability, covering temporal scales of variation, power spectrum, short-term variation and turbulence, the spectral gap, and long-term variation.
• Measurement, covering history of wind speed measurement, types of measurement, terrestrial measurements, anemometers, wind vanes, lidars, sodars, and remote sensing.
• Distributions, covering synoptic scale wind distributions, turbulent scale distributions, contrast between mean and extreme values, and extreme value statistics.
• Physical modelling, covering spatial scales of variability, the governing equations, models of varying complexity, mass consistent models, linearised models, and semi-empirical models.
• Statistical modelling, covering the use of measure-correlate-predict (MCP), wind indices, and spatial interpolation.

Handbook of Wind Resource Assessment serves as a comprehensive text that combines different aspects of wind resource assessment in one place. It is an essential resource for anyone who wishes to understand the underlying science, models, or applications of wind resources, including postgraduates, academics, and wind resource professionals.