Środowiskowe Seminarium Fizyki Atmosfery

The largest wind turbines today often reach heights where traditional models of the wind speed and how it varies with height no longer can be expected to apply. For accurate assessment of wind energy resources and loads on wind turbines, there is a need for better understanding of the flow of air above the atmospheric surface layer. In this study the method of large-eddy simulation is applied to gain improved insight on the influence of unsteady forcing, baroclinicity, inversion strength and stability on the boundary layer wind profile.