Journal of Fundamentals of Renewable Energy and Applications
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Change in surface wind speed and its implication for wind energy over Taiwan simulated by WRF nested with ECHAM5/MPIOM

World Congress and Exhibition on Wind & Renewable Energy

July 28-30, 2016 Berlin, Germany

Chuan-Yao Lin

Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Fundam Renewable Energy Appl

Abstract :

Wind power is one of the cleanest resources among various renewable energies. However, the estimation generally doesn�t take into account future climate changes which may alter the pattern and strength of near surface wind speed. It is difficult and inadequate to use a global model alone for projecting future climate changes such as Taiwan, a complex geographic nature island, due to its coarse resolution. In this study, we have performed dynamic downscaling of Taiwan�s climate in the recent past (1979-2003) and climate change projection for the near and distant future (2015-2039 and 2075-2099, respectively) by using the Weather Research Forecasting (WRF) model. The simulation is forced by the Max Plank Institute Hamburg, global model, ECHAM5/MPIOM. Simulation results showed close correlation between fine-resolution downscaling by WRF nested with ECHAM5/MPIOM and the actual observation data for the period 1979-2003. Furthermore, we will evaluate the wind speed change in the past and furture climate changes and discuss the development of wind energy and the potential environmental impacts in this study.

Biography :

Chuan-Yao Lin has completed his PhD in 1996 from National Central University, Chongli, Taiwan. He currently serves as Research Fellow at Research Center of Envrinonmetal Changes, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. His research interests are mesoscale meteorology, regional climate changes, urbanization effects and wind energy. He has been serving as a board member of associations “Environmental Protection” and “Taiwan Group on Earth Observation” in Taiwan.

Email: yao435@gate.sinica.edu.tw