This is the official page for the wind power studies conducted by Prof. Mark
Jacobson
()
and Dr. Cristina Archer
() in
the Civil and Environmental
Engineering Department at Stanford University.
The following links are available for further information:
U.S. winds and wind power at 80 m: the spatial
and temporal distributions of winds and wind power at 80 m (the hub height
of modern wind turbines) are analyzed for the U.S. The so-called Least Square
(LS) methodology is introduced and applied to obtain: (1) vertical profiles
of wind speed given only near-surface wind measurements and a few sounding
profiles and (2) hourly variation of wind speed given only the daily average
at a given station.
Evaluation of global wind power: study of
available wind power on the global scale. The Least Square Methodology is applied
to all stations worldwide and wind power extractable with 77-m diameter, 80-m
tall, 1.5 MW turbines installed at locations in wind power class 3 or higher
is calculated.
Last update: 20 April 2006
)
and Dr. Cristina Archer
(
) in
the Civil and Environmental
Engineering Department at Stanford University.