Meteorology for Wind Energy : An Introduction.

Intro -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Dedication -- About the Author -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Meteorological Basics -- 2.1 Why Does the Wind Blow? -- 2.2 The Vertical Structure of the Atmosphere -- 2.3 Atmospheric Variables and Forces -- 2.4 Length and Time Scales of Atmospheric Flow -- 2.5 Larger-Scale Systems (aka Weather) -- 2.6 Summary -- Exercises -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Measurements -- 3.1 Philosophy: What Does it Mean to Measure? -- 3.2 What Do We Measure? -- 3.3 Measurement Theory, or Different Ways to Treat the Data -- 3.4 Practice -- 3.5 Summary -- Exercises -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The Wind Profile -- 4.1 A Hand-Waving Way of Deriving the Simple Log Profile -- 4.2 Working with the Log Profile -- 4.3 The Power Law -- 4.4 Averaging Times and Other Dependencies -- 4.5 Two Famous Profiles -- 4.6 Zero-Plane Displacement -- 4.7 Internal Boundary Layers -- 4.8 Stability -- 4.9 Monin-Obukhov Theory -- 4.10 Deviations with Height -- 4.11 Connection with Geostrophic Drag Law -- 4.12 Effect of Orography, Obstacles and Thermal Flows on the Profile -- 4.13 Direction Profile -- 4.14 Summary -- Exercises -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Local Flow -- 5.1 Local Effects -- 5.2 Orographic Forcing -- 5.3 Roughness -- 5.4 Obstacles -- 5.5 Thermally Driven Flows -- 5.6 Effect of Stability -- 5.7 Summary -- Exercises -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Turbulence -- 6.1 What Generates Turbulence? -- 6.2 Reynolds Decomposition and Averaging -- 6.3 Spectra -- 6.4 Measuring Turbulence -- 6.5 Turbulent Loads -- 6.6 Extreme Winds -- 6.7 Summary -- Exercises -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Wakes -- 7.1 Turbine-to-Turbine Wakes -- 7.2 Several Wind Turbines, that is, a Wind Farm -- 7.3 Advanced Topics -- 7.4 Summary -- Exercises -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Modelling -- 8.1 Modelling and What it Means -- 8.2 Input.

8.3 Modelling -- 8.4 Output -- 8.5 Errors -- 8.6 So, What is a Good Model? -- 8.7 Chaos -- 8.8 Summary -- Exercises -- Note -- Chapter 9: Conclusion -- Appendix A: Cheat Sheet -- Appendix B: Answers to Exercises: Appendix B: Answers to Exercises -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Meteorological Basics -- Chapter 3 Measurements -- Chapter 4 The Wind Profile -- Chapter 5 Local Flow -- Chapter 6 Turbulence -- Chapter 7 Wakes -- Chapter 8 Modelling -- Chapter 9 Conclusion -- Appendix C: Sample Wind Speed and Direction Data -- References -- Index -- EULA.

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