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Poster Session / Session consacrée aux posters
Poster Session Track / Session Code: PO
Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 14:00 - 15:30

PREDICTION OF WAVES, WAKES AND OFFSHORE WIND ? THE RESULTS OF THE POW?WOW PROJECT
Gregor Giebel, Risø DTU, Denmark
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Co-author(s):

Pierre Pinson, Denmark (1) Ignacio Martí Perez, Spain (2) Sergio Lozano, France (2) George Kariniotakis, Portugal (3) Teresa Pontes, Germany (4) Bernhard Lange, United Kingdom (5) Lueder Von Bremen, Italy (5) Rebecca Barthelmie, Poland (6) Anna Maria Sempreviva, Germany (7) Katarzyna Michalowska-Knap, Spain (8)
(1) DTU.IMM (2) CENER (3) Armines (4) INETI (5) ISET (6) University of Edinburgh (7) CNR-ISAC (8) IBMER-IEO (9) energy & meteo systems (10) University Carlos III de Madrid

Summary

The POWWOW project (Prediction of Waves, Wakes and Offshore Wind, a EU Coordination Action) aimed to develop synergy in the fields of wind and wave predictions from short to resource timescales by integrating modelling approaches currently used by the communities separately. The project aimed to help these research communities by establishing virtual laboratories, offering specialised workshops, and setting up expert groups with large outreach in the mentioned fields. In this paper, the main results of POW?WOW are summarised.

Full description

The nearly finished POW?WOW project (2005-2009) had three major tasks: to connect the mindset of researchers in the offshore energy meteorology field, working on wave and on wind modelling, to help with data for the development of models for wakes and short-term prediction, and to have a series of workshops for researchers and end users.
The two Virtual Laboratories had quite opposite success: the ViLab for wakes had many users which downloaded short time series of large-scale wind farms, while the ViLab for short-term prediction of wind power did not received the attention expected despite large efforts on our part. This difference will be explored in the paper, and reasons for this will be explored.
The workshops held by the project were largely seen as a success. There were 2 workshops on the integration of wind and wave resource calculations, 2 workshops on best practice in the use of short-term forecasting (yielding something like a wind power prediction user group), and one workshop on optimal use of information for wind power forecasting, a workshop on the special situation in short-term forecasting in Brazil and one on wake modelling round out the picture. Additionally, a number of special sessions at conferences was held. The best-practice workshops actually turn into a series beyond the end of the project.
The third major activity was the position paper on wind and wave resource integration, partly an outflux of the workshops on the same topic.
The paper will shortly summarise all of those activities and deliver a list of references of the most important findings of the exercise.

Intent: poster (oral ok).