WASA 2 – WP23 Microscale Modelling Progress for period ending March/April 2017

WP23 activities and progress Skype project meetings and project communication by email WAsP Climate Analyst 3 projects, Phase 1 + 2 Updated to end of 2016 WAsP workspaces for WASA, Phase 1 + 2 Reporting and milestones WASA 2 site description WASA 2 obs. wind atlas WASA 1 obs. wind atlas Supervised students using WASA data for wind farms Seven WASA projects in DTU 46200 (1 in 3) [DTU] Validation of air density estimation models continued Global model based on reanalysis data [DTU] Automatic air density estimation in WAsP 12 [DTU] WASA 2 PIU meeting #6 5 May 2017

WASA SharePoint site updates Station and site description spreadsheet, Phase 1 and 2 WASA 2 Station and Site Description Report (draft 6) + update WAsP Climate Analyst 3 projects, Phase 1 + 2 Two projects for each site Preliminary data filling WAsP workspaces for WASA, Phase 1 + 2 WASA 1 Observational Wind Atlas Report (update) WASA 2 Observational Wind Atlas Report (draft) Global Wind Atlas – validation and uncertainty (WindEurope Resource Assessment 2017 presentation) WASA 2 PIU meeting #6 5 May 2017

New Climate Analyst 3 projects WM01 Alexander Bay WM02 Calvinia WM03 Vredendal WM04 Vredenburg WM05 Napier WM06 Sutherland WM07 Beaufort West WM08 Humansdorp WM09 Noupoort WM10 Butterworth 62-m level only, OWC and OEWC, data filling, optimised for climatology WM01 WM02 WM03 WM04 WM05 WM06 WM07 WM08 WM09 WM10 All levels, OWCs for profile studies, no data filling so far WASA 2 PIU meeting #6 5 May 2017

WASA mast sites WASA 2 PIU meeting #6 5 May 2017

WASA 2 one-year observed wind climates Mast R A k U E RIX   [%] [ms−1] [Wm−2] WM11 99.0 8.2 1.72 7.52 548 11.1 WM12 100.0 5.6 1.87 5.00 152 0.0 WM13 5.9 1.94 5.21 173 WM14 8.3 2.08 7.45 448 1.6 WM15 99.8 6.9 2.15 6.10 255 WASA 2 PIU meeting #6 5 May 2017

Other issues WAsP and WEng licences Cooperation between DTU and CSIR Updated plan for rest of WASA 2 Activities next period Assessment of overlap period Data filling and synthesis [DTU] Long-term extrapolation [DTU] Land cover and roughness maps New DTU e-learning WAsP and WEng on-demand courses On-line wind energy master courses WASA data on repositories Data set treated as publication (academic credit) WASA 2 PIU meeting #6 5 May 2017

WASA data on repositories Data set treated as publication Repository = library for data Data are figures, maps, data sets, images, videos, etc. DOI = Digital Object Identifier Advantages Sharing and backup of data Archiving of project outputs Academic credit, citations Funders get recognition Contributions to R&D Repositories Zenodo.org (CERN) FigShare.com DTU (under consideration) Detailed wind resource maps Western Cape Eastern Cape Northern Cape WASA 1 domain, ver. 1 & 2 WAsP data and results WASA yearly data files Climate Analyst projects WAsP workspaces Other work packages Comments and suggestions? Sample WASA data sets WASA 2 PIU meeting #6 5 May 2017

Data on repositories WASA 2 PIU meeting #6 5 May 2017

Data set treated as publication WASA 2 PIU meeting #6 5 May 2017