• Syllabus
• Wind power meteorology by Petersen et al.
• Wind Resource Assessment Handbook
• Small-scale Wind Energy
• The Planetary Boundary Layer (Holton Chapter 5)
• NWTC M2 Tower
• Operational Wind Forecaster position at AVANGRID (posted 8-15-16)
• America’s First Offshore Wind Farm
• MATLAB references
  

Lectures (2019)

• Lecture 1 Wind turbines; geography of wind power resources (1-8)
  
• Lecture 2 Oklahoma winds; boundary layer meteorology: turbulence (1-10)
• Lecture 3 Boundary layer meteorology: diurnal cycle over land (1-15)
• Lecture 4 Boundary layer meteorology: diurnal cycle over land (1-17)
• Lecture 5 Boundary layer equations and mixed-layer winds (1-22)
  
• Lecture 6 Inertial oscillation (1-24)
• Lecture 7 Inertial oscillation (1-29)
• Lecture 8 Surface layer wind profiles; MATLAB code to analyze tower hourly wind data (1-31)
• Lecture 9 Surface layer wind profiles; tower hourly wind data (2-5)
• Lecture 10 Climate adjustment process (2-7)
• Lecture 11 Climate adjustment process (2-12)
• Lecture 12 Wind flow modeling (2-14)
• Lecture 13 Wind flow modeling; uncertainty in wind resource assessment (2-19)
• Lecture 14 Simulating atmosphere flow for wind energy applications (2-21)

Final Exam (2019)

• Tuesday, February 26, 10:45 to 12:05
• Closed book, 2 sheets of HAND-WRITTEN notes allowed (8.5" x 11" paper, both sides), bring calculator
• Study Guide, Part 1: Descriptive example questions
• Study Guide, Part 2: Quantitative example questions

Assignments (2019)

• Exercise 1: Analyze mesonet wind speed data (due 1-22)
  
• Matlab code template
• Matlab code to copy
  
• Mesonet metadata
• Results: numbers plot 1 plot 2 plot 3
• Exercise 2: Analyze more mesonet wind data  (due 1-31)
  
• Matlab code
• Exercise 3: Wind profiles  (due 2-12)
  
• Matlab code template
• Wind tower data
• Exercise 4: Climate adjustment process  (due 2-21)
  
• Daily average wind speeds 1997-2011 (mesonet group one)
• Daily average wind speeds 1997-2011 (mesonet group two)
• Missing data (mesonet group one)
• Missing data (mesonet group two)
• Matlab code for Problem 1
• Matlab code for Problems 2 and 3
• Station pair assignments