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Preliminary results of a statistical wind resources analysis in offshore conditions in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico
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posted on 2010-07-02, 15:11 authored by Rolando Soler-Bientz, Simon Watson, David InfieldA statistical analysis of the wind resources has been undertaken by mean of data measured on a
communication tower installed on a pier which extends 6.65km from the coastline. A set of wind and
temperature sensors were installed to record the ten minute averages over approximately two years. As a
complement, hourly values of Sea Surface Temperature, extracted from GEOS satellite measurements over
the study region, were also included in the research presented. The results have confirmed that the offshore
wind is thermally driven by differential heating of land and sea producing sea breezes which veer to blow
parallel to the coast in the late afternoon under the action of the Coriolis force. Air temperature and sea
surface temperature profiles suggested largely unstable conditions and the potentially development of a
shallow Stable Internal Boundary Layer.
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- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
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- Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST)
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SOLER-BIENTZ, R., WATSON, S. and INFIELD, D., 2010. Preliminary results of a statistical wind resources analysis in offshore conditions in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. IN: Proceedings, European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition, Warsaw, Poland, 20 - 23 April.Publisher
EWEA / © R. Soler-Bientz, S. Watson, D. InfieldVersion
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This conference paper was presented at: http://www.ewec2010.info/Language
- en
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