To provide the student with the necessary tools and understanding to perform wind energy resource assessment at various scales. En studerende, der fuldt ud har opfyldt kursets mål, vil kunne:

• List the mechanisms that affect the Annual Energy Production (AEP) of a wind farm.
• Explain the basic driving mechanisms for wind, from global processess down to those linked to the local topography.
• Use the Global Wind Atlas to address the wind energy potential across the globe.
• Identify potential errors in setup of mesoscale and microscale models, through inspection of both inputs/setup and model results.
• Explain the principles, assumptions, and limitations behind a wind atlas (e.g. Global Wind Atlas or regional wind atlases), and use a wind atlas for simple resource estimation.
• Calculate the AEP for simple sites and wind farms, as driven by observations or potentially mesoscale model output.
• Analyze meteorological time series of mean wind and direction with statistical methods.
• Explain the differences between micro- and mesoscale modeling, and how they can be used together.

The course is problem-driven, with emphasis on iterative, active learning--through addressing and solving specific problems. The course covers: large-scale atmospheric and mesoscale motion and force balances; relevant thermodynamic effects; basic atmospheric boundary layer structure and flow phenomena; micro- and meso-scale modeling and practices, including basic parameterizations and numerical aspects; and analysis and use of wind statistics (incl. e.g. wind atlas data).
The students are exposed to several mandatory assignments in the course. The information required to solve the problems will be provided through short modules consisting of video presentations, notes, book excerpts, quizzes and live Q/A sessions with interdependent links. 20. august, 2018