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Marine Boundary Layers

Beyond extreme events like hurricanes, we are also assessing the characteristics of the marine boundary layer relevant for wind energy. We assessed offshore wind shear and veer profiles (Bodini, Lundquist, and Kirincich 2020 J. Phys. Conf. Ser.). and turbulence dissipation rate data (Bodini, Lundquist, and Kirincich 2019 GRL). We quantified how many offshore wind turbines would be required to match electrical demand in the US Northeast (Livingston and Lundquist, 2020 MetApps), and assessed which reanalysis datasets are best suited for modeling the offshore environment (Pronk et al. 2022 WES). We are funded to collect and analyze a broader dataset via an upcoming Dept. of Energy experiment (WFIP3) for which my students and I will deploy our instrumentation and carry out numerical weather prediction simulations. We have extended our work in wind farm wakes to the offshore environment via comparisons to European offshore wake measurements (Siedersleben et al. 2018 MZSiedersleben et al. 2018 ERL, and Siedersleben et al. 2020 GMD). We have also simulated wakes from the planned US offshore wind plant sites, including uncertainty quantification (Rosencrans et al. 2022, in preparation) and multiple boundary-layer models (Rybchuk et al. 2022, in review at WES).