WindMet

To develop such recommendations, we will model wind fields in mountainous terrain at high spatio-temporal resolution and assess their accuracy with a measurement network that is as spatially dense as possible. Our focus is on spatio-temporal wind fields, since only including variations in both time and space can describe the entire wind potential in mountainous terrain where the wind flow gets modified by topography interactions and seasonal and diurnal thermal effects. We will evaluate and further develop existing computationally efficient methods based on downscaling approaches.

Project duration: 01.11.2023 – 31.10.2026