Title:	Mesoscale modelling for icing of wind turbines
DNr:	SNIC 2015/1-224
Project Type:	SNIC Medium Compute
Principal Investigator:	Hans Bergström <hans.bergstrom@met.uu.se>
Affiliation:	Uppsala universitet
Duration:	2015-07-01 – 2016-07-01
Classification:	10508 10501 20702
Homepage:	http://www.geo.uu.se/forskning/luval/forskarutbildningsamnen/meteorologi/pagaende-forskning/vindenergi/
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Abstract

The objective is to optimize the skill of the models to calculate icing and production losses for wind turbines operating in icing conditions. Methods to assess uncertainties in icing calculations will be developed. A PhD student will work specifically on uncertainties of the constituent processes, quantification of them and for coupling to ensemble forecasts. Uncertainties in icing estimates will be quantified. Meteorological ensemble-forecasts will be based upon different model schemes, perturbations of the parameterization of the physics and perturbations of the boundary conditions. A PhD student will do research on uncertainties of the included processes, to quantify them and coupling to ensemble forecasts. In addition uncertainties regarding production losses will be quantified by using ensemble forecasts as input to statistical production loss models.