Local Wind Climate within and Downwind of Large Offshore Wind Turbine Clusters

Abstract

This Note reviews presentations made at a meeting for experts, held at the Risø Laboratory, concerning possible approaches to improving understanding of local wind climates within large offshore wind farms and particularly their impact on downwind wind farms. Such effects are detectable both within and beyond the boundaries of each windfarm, which typically has 10 to 100 large turbines of rotor diameter up to 80 m and hub-heights between 60 and 80 m.