A parameterization scheme for the floating wind farm in a coupled atmosphere–wave model (COAWST v3.7)

Deng, Shaokun; Yang, Shengmu; Chen, Shengli; Chen, Daoyi; Yang, Xuefeng; Cui, Shanshan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-4891-2024

Articles | Volume 17, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-4891-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-4891-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 12

Development and technical paper

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21 Jun 2024

Development and technical paper |

| 21 Jun 2024

A parameterization scheme for the floating wind farm in a coupled atmosphere–wave model (COAWST v3.7)

Shaokun Deng, Shengmu Yang, Shengli Chen, Daoyi Chen, Xuefeng Yang, and Shanshan Cui

Data sets

US DOC/NOAA/NESDIS > Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution, Jason-3 Level-2 Operational, Interim and Final Geophysical Data Records (X-GDR), 2016 to present (NCEI Accession 0122595) John Lillibridge https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0122595

A Parameterization Scheme for the Floating Wind Farm S. Deng https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12180181

NCEP GDAS/FNL 0.25 Degree Global Tropospheric Analyses and Forecast Grids National Centers for Environmental Prediction/National Weather Service/NOAA/U.S. Department of Commerce (NCEP) https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds083.3/

Model code and software

Development of a coupled ocean-atmosphere-wave-sediment transport (COAWST) modeling system (https://github.com/DOI-USGS/COAWST) J. Warner et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2010.07.010

Short summary

Global offshore wind power development is moving from offshore to deeper waters, where floating offshore wind turbines have an advantage over bottom-fixed turbines. However, current wind farm parameterization schemes in mesoscale models are not applicable to floating turbines. We propose a floating wind farm parameterization scheme that accounts for the attenuation of the significant wave height by floating turbines. The results indicate that it has a significant effect on the power output.