Mapping Offshore Winds Around Iceland Using Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar and Mesoscale Model Simulations

Charlotte Bay Hasager; Merete Badger; Nikolai Nawri; Birgitte Rugaard Furevik; Guðrún Nína Petersen; Halldór Björnsson; Niels-Erik Clausen

doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2443981

Mapping Offshore Winds Around Iceland Using Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar and Mesoscale Model Simulations

Charlotte Bay Hasager, Merete Badger, Nikolai Nawri, Birgitte Rugaard Furevik, Guðrún Nína Petersen, Halldór Björnsson, Niels-Erik Clausen

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Abstract

The offshore wind climate in Iceland is examined based on satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR), coastal meteorological station measurements, and results from two atmospheric model data sets, HARMONIE and NORA10. The offshore winds in Iceland are highly influenced by the rugged coastline. Lee effects, gap flow, coastal barrier jets, and atmospheric gravity waves are not only observed in SAR, but are also modeled well from HARMONIE. Offshore meteorological observations are not available, but wind speed and wind direction measurements from coastal meteorological masts are found to compare well to nearby offshore locations observed by SAR. More than 2500 SAR scenes from the Envisat ASAR wide swathmode are used for wind energy resource estimation. The wind energy potential observed from satellite SAR shows high values above 1000 Wm ⁻² in coastal regions in the south, east, and west, with lower values in the north. The most promising region for wind energy production is the southwestern coastal region.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	I E E E Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Vol/bind	8
Udgave nummer	12
Sider (fra-til)	5541-5552
Antal sider	12
ISSN	1939-1404
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2443981
Status	Udgivet - 2015
Udgivet eksternt	Ja

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This work was part of the project “Improved Forecast of Wind, Waves and Icing” (ICEWIND), www.icewind.dtu.dk, supported by the Nordic Top-level Research Initiative (Toppforskningsinitiativet; TFI), including national and private organizations. Satellite data from the European Space Agency, ESA Grant EO-14048 and Grant EO-6773

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Hasager, C. B., Badger, M., Nawri, N., Rugaard Furevik, B., Petersen, G. N., Björnsson, H., & Clausen, N.-E. (2015). Mapping Offshore Winds Around Iceland Using Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar and Mesoscale Model Simulations. I E E E Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 8(12), 5541-5552. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2443981

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