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Vortex ICING - Wind Farm Icing Probability
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Vortex ICING is designed to detect icing events using a modeling chain based on WRF model, without relying on on-site measured data. It delivers simulated occurrences of icing events at a given site, along with associated wind statistics, to help estimate the effective reduction in wind resource caused by extreme cold conditions. The estimation of icing events is based on the distribution of ice accretion rate thresholds, calculated by applying the Makkonen icing accretion model (Makkonen, 2000) to WRF outputs.Most popular related searches
When the wind farm area is already selected but not yet the turbine locations or their class.
- Any region worldwide, both on and off-shore.
- 100 m horizontal resolution.
- Fully selectable areas in size (up to 400 km²), location and orientation.
- Maps of minimum temperature and maximum density.
- 6 decreasing temperature thresholds.
- Maps of days per year with temperatures below thresholds.
- Maps of hours per year with icing rate above critical threshold .
- Table wind speed and direction during icing periods.
- Based on 10 years simulations.
- Exportable to Google Earth KML and ESRI grid.
- Makkonen Ice Accretion time series up to 30 years based on ERA5 reanalysis. (NEW!!)