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Owners of wind farms are interested in both annual mean wind speed and in forecasting wind speed for a few days. Considerable research effort is focused on computational modelling for wind energy assessment [1]. Local winds are influenced by synoptic situation as well as by specific topography. Therefore one should couple a Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) model with additional small scale model. Especially in a complex terrain dependence of the local flow on the wind direction cannot be neglected. In this study we analyse this phenomenon for a particular site in a moderately complex terrain.
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Wędołowski, K., Bajer, K. (2012). Application of Meteorological Data in Computational Modelling of Wind over Real Terrain Topography. In: Oberlack, M., Peinke, J., Talamelli, A., Castillo, L., Hölling, M. (eds) Progress in Turbulence and Wind Energy IV. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 141. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28968-2_37
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