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16 Dec 2025
Development and technical paper |
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| 16 Dec 2025
Improvement of near-surface wind speed modeling through refined aerodynamic roughness length in high-roughness surface regions: implementation and validation in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model version 4.0
Jiamin Wang
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science, Institute for Global Change Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science, Institute for Global Change Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Renewables Research Center of Huairou Laboratory, Beijing 101499, China
Jiarui Liu
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science, Institute for Global Change Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
National Tibetan Plateau Data Center, State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment and Resources, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Xiaogang Ma
National Institute of Natural Hazards, Ministry of Emergency Management of China, Beijing 100085, China
Wenjun Tang
National Tibetan Plateau Data Center, State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment and Resources, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Ling Yuan
China State Shipbuilding Corporation Haizhuang Windpower Co., Ltd., Chongqing 401123, China
Zuhuan Ren
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science, Institute for Global Change Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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Short summary
We set out to improve the accuracy of near-surface wind simulations in areas where buildings and tall vegetation have made the ground surface very rough. Through a clever use of differences between weather station measurements and reanalysis data, we estimated more realistic surface roughness values and created a new high-resolution map for China. This map greatly improves wind speed simulations and supports better decisions in wind-related fields.
We set out to improve the accuracy of near-surface wind simulations in areas where buildings and...
