Preface ixAcknowledgements xiAbout the Author xiii1 Introduction 12 The Atmospheric Boundary Layer 113 Measurement 334 Wind Speed Variability and Distributions 855 Numerical Modelling 1116 Wind Resource Estimation in Complex Terrain, Offshore, and in Urban Areas 1577 Orographic Test Cases 1798 Statistical Methods 1999 Atmospheric Reanalyses and Wind Atlases 22710 Mesoscale Phenomena 26311 Long-term Wind Climate Trends 281Index 291
Simon Watson is Head of the Wind Energy Section for the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology. He has been working in the field of wind energy for over 30 years and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley Wind Energy journal.