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Vortex LES - One-year Wind Turbulence Time Series
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Vortex LES delivers a one-year, high-resolution time series that includes detailed turbulence information, making it ideal for microscale wind energy applications.
Based on the WRF model developed by NCAR’s Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) Laboratory, Vortex LES uses a Large Eddy Simulation (LES) approach to resolve turbulent eddies directly—providing a level of detail that closely resembles real measurements.
Vortex has been a pioneer in applying WRF-LES for microscale downscaling since 2016, offering one of the most realistic modelled datasets on the market. In this approach, traditional turbulence parameterizations in WRF are replaced by LES physics, seamlessly integrating meso- and microscale dynamics in a single modeling chain.Most popular related searches
Vortex has improved the source code in two ways: i) the problem of lateral boundary conditions (LBC) has been solved by including a perturbation in the potential temperature, and ii) the WRF model source code has been improved through optimization of computational needs. The modified version of the models is called Vortex-LES.
Vortex uses the adapted version of the model to provide high-resolution (100m) modeled virtual datasets for anywhere in the world. Download the white paper here for more detailed information.
The ability of WRF-LES technology to provide 10-minute modeled data makes this virtual time series a good candidate to fill in the day-scale gaps of measured data.
When no measured wind is available (or reliable) to characterize mean flow and turbulence.