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Impacts of offshore wind farms on the atmospheric environment over Taiwan Strait during an extreme weather typhoon event
Wind is one of the cleanest renewable energy resources. Through the “Thousand Wind Turbines Project”, Taiwan is planning to increase the proportion of power generation from renewable energy and has set a target of 5.7 GW for offshore wind by 2025. The effects of future offshore wind farms (OWFs) ove...
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author | Lee, Tsung-Yu Wu, Yu-Ting Kueh, Mien-Tze Lin, Chuan-Yao Lin, Yi-Ying Sheng, Yang-Fan |
author_facet | Lee, Tsung-Yu Wu, Yu-Ting Kueh, Mien-Tze Lin, Chuan-Yao Lin, Yi-Ying Sheng, Yang-Fan |
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description | Wind is one of the cleanest renewable energy resources. Through the “Thousand Wind Turbines Project”, Taiwan is planning to increase the proportion of power generation from renewable energy and has set a target of 5.7 GW for offshore wind by 2025. The effects of future offshore wind farms (OWFs) over the Taiwan Strait on the atmospheric environment have not been evaluated. This study examined the potential effects of proposed OWFs on the atmospheric environment if the OWFs had existed during Tropical Storm Haitang (2017) by using Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. A small set of ensemble simulations was conducted for studying the sensitivity of the ambient conditions in the region to the wind farm locations, the number and density of the turbines, and the initial time of simulations. Following the landfall and northward movement of Tropical Storm Haitang, a series of complex interactions between the typhoon circulation and the wind farm emerged, including small time slots of wake effect and mountain blocking effect. The combination of these rapidly changing OWFs-related effects contributed to a weak reduction in precipitation (− 1.08 mm) and hub-height wind speed (− 0.25 m s(−1)), as well as minimal warming near the surface (+ 0.13 °C) over southern Taiwan. |
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spelling | pubmed-87639172022-01-18 Impacts of offshore wind farms on the atmospheric environment over Taiwan Strait during an extreme weather typhoon event Lee, Tsung-Yu Wu, Yu-Ting Kueh, Mien-Tze Lin, Chuan-Yao Lin, Yi-Ying Sheng, Yang-Fan Sci Rep Article Wind is one of the cleanest renewable energy resources. Through the “Thousand Wind Turbines Project”, Taiwan is planning to increase the proportion of power generation from renewable energy and has set a target of 5.7 GW for offshore wind by 2025. The effects of future offshore wind farms (OWFs) over the Taiwan Strait on the atmospheric environment have not been evaluated. This study examined the potential effects of proposed OWFs on the atmospheric environment if the OWFs had existed during Tropical Storm Haitang (2017) by using Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. A small set of ensemble simulations was conducted for studying the sensitivity of the ambient conditions in the region to the wind farm locations, the number and density of the turbines, and the initial time of simulations. Following the landfall and northward movement of Tropical Storm Haitang, a series of complex interactions between the typhoon circulation and the wind farm emerged, including small time slots of wake effect and mountain blocking effect. The combination of these rapidly changing OWFs-related effects contributed to a weak reduction in precipitation (− 1.08 mm) and hub-height wind speed (− 0.25 m s(−1)), as well as minimal warming near the surface (+ 0.13 °C) over southern Taiwan. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-01-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8763917/ /pubmed/35039590 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-04807-w Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Lee, Tsung-Yu Wu, Yu-Ting Kueh, Mien-Tze Lin, Chuan-Yao Lin, Yi-Ying Sheng, Yang-Fan Impacts of offshore wind farms on the atmospheric environment over Taiwan Strait during an extreme weather typhoon event |
title | Impacts of offshore wind farms on the atmospheric environment over Taiwan Strait during an extreme weather typhoon event |
title_full | Impacts of offshore wind farms on the atmospheric environment over Taiwan Strait during an extreme weather typhoon event |
title_fullStr | Impacts of offshore wind farms on the atmospheric environment over Taiwan Strait during an extreme weather typhoon event |
title_full_unstemmed | Impacts of offshore wind farms on the atmospheric environment over Taiwan Strait during an extreme weather typhoon event |
title_short | Impacts of offshore wind farms on the atmospheric environment over Taiwan Strait during an extreme weather typhoon event |
title_sort | impacts of offshore wind farms on the atmospheric environment over taiwan strait during an extreme weather typhoon event |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8763917/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35039590 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-04807-w |
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