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1 Downloaded from orbit.dtu.dk on: Dec 15, 2017 Monitoring Conditions Offshore with Satellites Karagali, Ioanna; Hasager, Charlotte Bay; Badger, Merete; Bingöl, Ferhat; Ejsing Jørgensen, Hans Publication date: 2013 Link back to DTU Orbit Citation (APA): Karagali, I., Hasager, C. B., Badger, M., Bingöl, F., & Ejsing Jørgensen, H. (2013). Monitoring Conditions Offshore with Satellites [Sound/Visual production (digital)]. DTU-KAIST Workshop, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of, 21/02/2013 General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.

2 Monitoring Conditions Offshore with Satellites Ioanna Karagali, Charlotte Bay Hasager, Merete Badger, Ferhat Bingöl, Hans Ejsing Jørgensen Meteorology Division DTU Wind Energy, Risø campus Department of Wind Energy DTU Technical University of Denmark KAIST Workshop, February 2013 February /39

3 Outline 1 Introduction 2 Wind Offshore 3 Waves 4 Sea Surface Temperature 5 Conclusions 6 Perspectives February /39

4 Motivation Offshore renewable energy activities Need to understand and monitor conditions offshore Wind: resource assessment, forecasts Waves: loads on structures, wave energy Sea Surface Temperature (SST): forecasts, wind profiles February /39

5 Wind Measurements Offshore masts expensive Foundation/maintenance costs increase (depth, distance from land) Alternatives: Lidars Satellites Meso/micro scale models February /39

6 1 Introduction 2 Wind Offshore Satellite Winds QuikSCAT SAR 3 Waves 4 Sea Surface Temperature 5 Conclusions 6 Perspectives February /39

7 QuikSCAT Scatterometer: backscatter from small scale ripples Operating frequency: 13.2 GHz SeaWinds on QuikSCAT: speed & direction Equivalent Neutral Wind 10 m 2 20 m s 1 > RMSE 2 m s 1 February /39

8 Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) On MET-OP (A & B) Operational since 2007 Radar frequency 5.2 GHZ: less sensitive to rain Resolution: 25 km, 12.5 km February 2013 Figure: ASCAT instrument on METOP: example of descending (morning) pass from KNMI ( 25_prod/ascat_app.cgi). 7/39

9 OCEANSAT-2 Scatterometer (OSCAT) Operational since 2009 Operating frequency 13.5 GHZ KNMI releases 50 km resolution products 10 m Equivalent Neutral Wind Wind speed range 0 50 m s 1 February 2013 Figure: Morning (descending) OSCAT passes on the 14/02/2013 from KNMI ( 50_prod/oscat_app.cgi). 8/39

10 Synthetic Aperture Radar Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar on ENVISAT: speed Operation , infrequent revisiting time Very high spatial resolution ( 150 m on WSM) Processing & wind retrieval at DTU Wind Energy Johns Hopkins ANSWRS system & NOGAPS model wind directions Figure: Wind field retrieved from ENVISAT ASAR, 01/10/2010 February /39

11 Synthetic Aperture Radar RadarSat-2: 2007 now Sentinel-1 to be launched in 2013 Images are courtesy of ESA. February /39

12 1 Introduction 2 Wind Offshore Satellite Winds QuikSCAT SAR 3 Waves 4 Sea Surface Temperature 5 Conclusions 6 Perspectives February /39

13 QuikSCAT vs North Sea Masts Karagali et al. 2012, Wind Characteristics from the QuikSCAT satellite, Wind Energy, early view February /39

14 10-year Mean Wind Speed 68 o N o N 60 o N 56 o N Mean u (ms 1 ) 52 o N o 6 o E 12 o E 18 o E 24 o E 7 Karagali et al. 2013, Temporal & spatial variability of 10 m winds, Renewable Energy, 57, February /39

15 Wind Direction Distributions Karagali et al. 2013, Temporal & spatial variability of 10 m winds, Renewable Energy, 57, February /39

16 Spatial Correlation of Wind Speed 60 o N 58 o N 56 o N 54 o N 52 o N 50 o N 48 o N All Seasons 6 o W 0 o 6 o E 12 o E 18 o E 24 o E Correlation coefficient r r>.9: 68 grid cells 32*10 3 km 2 (4% North Sea area) Karagali 2012, DTU-Wind Energy PhD Thesis 03 February /39

17 1 Introduction 2 Wind Offshore Satellite Winds QuikSCAT SAR 3 Waves 4 Sea Surface Temperature 5 Conclusions 6 Perspectives February /39

18 Spectral Properties of SAR, QuikSCAT S(k) [m 3 s 2 ] S(k) [m 3 s 2 ] QSCAT QSCAT NS SAR 600m SAR 1.5km SAR 3km SAR 15km SAR 25km QSCAT QSCAT NS SAR 600m SAR 1.5km SAR 3km SAR 15km SAR 25km k (rad m 1 ) k (rad m 1 ) Karagali 2012, Spectral properties of QuikSCAT & SAR 10 m ocean winds, DTU-Wind Energy PhD Thesis 03 February /39

19 Wind Class Sampling Badger et al. 2010, Wind class sampling of satellite SAR imagery for offshore wind resource mapping, J. Applied Meteorology & Climatology, 49, February /39

20 NORSEWInD ASAR Wind atlas SAR scenes used for the wind resource assessment atlas. Courtesy: DTU Wind Energy & CLS. February /39

21 NORSEWInD ASAR Wind atlas Mean wind speed from the resource assessment atlas. Courtesy: DTU Wind Energy & CLS. February /39

22 1 Introduction 2 Wind Offshore 3 Waves 4 Sea Surface Temperature 5 Conclusions 6 Perspectives February /39

23 Altimeters Radar vertically transmitting short pulses towards ocean surface Receives reflected signal Time between signals = distance satellite Earth Shape of return signal = significant wave height Multiple missions: TOPEX/POSEIDON, JASON-1/2, ENVISAT RA-2, CRYOSAT Long revisiting times: days Available climatologies: ESA s GlobWave Figure: The TOPEX/POSEIDON principle of function. Image taken from AVISO ( newsletter/newsletter01/focus-on.html) February /39

24 Significant Wave Height H s = 4 η 2 η: wave height Average crest-totrough height of 1 3 largest waves Figure: Latest NRT Significant Wave Height merged product, from Aviso ( February /39

25 EU ORECCA Roadmap for research activities on offshore renewable energy conversion platforms for Wind Waves Other February /39

26 EU MARINA Multi-purpose platforms for marine renewable energy Integrated wind and wave/current energy Site assessment for deployment of deep offshore renewable Figure: Average SWH and Observations histogram, Jason-2, DMI, energy COI (http : //ocean.dmi.dk/validations/waves/satellite/2008_07 platforms 12.ys_new/index.php) February /39

27 1 Introduction 2 Wind Offshore 3 Waves 4 Sea Surface Temperature 5 Conclusions 6 Perspectives February /39

28 Definitions of SST Vertical distribution of SST. From Minett & Kaiser-Weis (2012) February /39

29 Satellite Winds & SST 59 o N o N o N SEVIRI dsst at 14 UTC 6 57 o N 56 o N m/s 57 o N 56 o N dsst 55 o N 6 55 o N o N 2 54 o N 1 5 o E 6 o E 7 o E 8 o E 9 o E 10 o E 11 o E 0 53 o N 6 o E 8 o E 10 o E 12 o E 14 o E 16 o E 0 QuikSCAT, SAR and SEVIRI SST warming on the 04/07/2006 February /39

30 Wind Profiles u = u κ [ ( ) ] ln z Ψ z0 M u: wind speed at height z u : friction velocity κ: von Kármán constant ( 0.4) z 0 : surface roughness Ψ M : stability & height dependent z (m) T sea =T air100m 1 o T sea =T air100m 0.5 o T sea =T air100m T sea =T air100m +2 o T sea =T air100m +4 o U (ms 1 ) Compared to neutral case - 1 : 39% increase of u 100m (167% for wind power density) + 2 : 8% decrease of u 100m (22% for wind power density) February /39

31 Using SST and Bulk Water Temperature Temperature o C T: 4m SST T: 13m Hour Wind speed ms U 15m U 10m U 100m Hour Measured air & sea temperatures at Horns Rev on the 04/07/2006 (left). Measured wind speed at 15 m (blue), extrapolated wind speeds at 10 m (solid) and 100 m (dashed), using the T 13 m for the air temperature & either the T -4 m (black) or the SST (red) for the sea temperature (right). February /39

32 SST from Space Infra-red sensors Infra-red radiation from skin No measurement through clouds High resolution SEVIRI (Geostationary) ATSR, AVHRR, MODIS (Polar) Microwave sensors Radiation from sub-skin Measurement through clouds Low resolution away from land TMI and AMSR Polar orbiters February /39

33 Diurnal Warming Thresholds Figure: Left: Annual distribution of anomalies exceeding the threshold of 1, 2 and 3 K from June 2004 to October Right: Temporal distribution of anomalies exceeding 2 K. Karagali et al. 2012, SST diurnal variability in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, Rem. Sens. Environ., 121, February /39

34 Spatial Extend of Diurnal Warming Figure: Spatial distribution of warming cases exceeding greater than 2 K (SEVIRI) Karagali et al. 2012, SST diurnal variability in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, Rem. Sens. Environ., 121, February /39

35 Modelling the diurnal cycle SEVIRI (red), the Filipiak et al. (2011) model (black), the Zeng & Beljaars (2005) d 1 = 3m (green) and d 2 = 6m (blue). Karagali & Høyer 2013, Observations and modeling of the diurnal SST cycle in the North and Baltic Seas, J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, DOI: /jgrc February /39

36 1 Introduction 2 Wind Offshore 3 Waves 4 Sea Surface Temperature 5 Conclusions 6 Perspectives February /39

37 Conclusions Satellite winds applicable for initial resource assessment QuikSCAT: long temporal & spatial coverage > mean wind characteristics Roadmap for installation of masts, run high res. models SAR: very high resolution, close to land Identification of local, small-scale features Altimeters can be used for climatological wave resource assessment Validation of wave models vs radar altimeter data Diurnal SST variability important for certain areas/seasons Potentially important for atmospheric modelling February /39

38 Conclusions Satellite winds applicable for initial resource assessment QuikSCAT: long temporal & spatial coverage > mean wind characteristics Roadmap for installation of masts, run high res. models SAR: very high resolution, close to land Identification of local, small-scale features Altimeters can be used for climatological wave resource assessment Validation of wave models vs radar altimeter data Diurnal SST variability important for certain areas/seasons Potentially important for atmospheric modelling February /39

39 Conclusions Satellite winds applicable for initial resource assessment QuikSCAT: long temporal & spatial coverage > mean wind characteristics Roadmap for installation of masts, run high res. models SAR: very high resolution, close to land Identification of local, small-scale features Altimeters can be used for climatological wave resource assessment Validation of wave models vs radar altimeter data Diurnal SST variability important for certain areas/seasons Potentially important for atmospheric modelling February /39

40 Conclusions Satellite winds applicable for initial resource assessment QuikSCAT: long temporal & spatial coverage > mean wind characteristics Roadmap for installation of masts, run high res. models SAR: very high resolution, close to land Identification of local, small-scale features Altimeters can be used for climatological wave resource assessment Validation of wave models vs radar altimeter data Diurnal SST variability important for certain areas/seasons Potentially important for atmospheric modelling February /39

41 Conclusions Satellite winds applicable for initial resource assessment QuikSCAT: long temporal & spatial coverage > mean wind characteristics Roadmap for installation of masts, run high res. models SAR: very high resolution, close to land Identification of local, small-scale features Altimeters can be used for climatological wave resource assessment Validation of wave models vs radar altimeter data Diurnal SST variability important for certain areas/seasons Potentially important for atmospheric modelling February /39

42 Conclusions Satellite winds applicable for initial resource assessment QuikSCAT: long temporal & spatial coverage > mean wind characteristics Roadmap for installation of masts, run high res. models SAR: very high resolution, close to land Identification of local, small-scale features Altimeters can be used for climatological wave resource assessment Validation of wave models vs radar altimeter data Diurnal SST variability important for certain areas/seasons Potentially important for atmospheric modelling February /39

43 Conclusions Satellite winds applicable for initial resource assessment QuikSCAT: long temporal & spatial coverage > mean wind characteristics Roadmap for installation of masts, run high res. models SAR: very high resolution, close to land Identification of local, small-scale features Altimeters can be used for climatological wave resource assessment Validation of wave models vs radar altimeter data Diurnal SST variability important for certain areas/seasons Potentially important for atmospheric modelling February /39

44 Conclusions Satellite winds applicable for initial resource assessment QuikSCAT: long temporal & spatial coverage > mean wind characteristics Roadmap for installation of masts, run high res. models SAR: very high resolution, close to land Identification of local, small-scale features Altimeters can be used for climatological wave resource assessment Validation of wave models vs radar altimeter data Diurnal SST variability important for certain areas/seasons Potentially important for atmospheric modelling February /39

45 Conclusions Satellite winds applicable for initial resource assessment QuikSCAT: long temporal & spatial coverage > mean wind characteristics Roadmap for installation of masts, run high res. models SAR: very high resolution, close to land Identification of local, small-scale features Altimeters can be used for climatological wave resource assessment Validation of wave models vs radar altimeter data Diurnal SST variability important for certain areas/seasons Potentially important for atmospheric modelling February /39

46 1 Introduction 2 Wind Offshore 3 Waves 4 Sea Surface Temperature 5 Conclusions 6 Perspectives February /39

47 Perspectives More scatterometers in operation > longer data sets Satellite winds lifted to hub heights Resolving of diurnal warming in NWP models Using SST when extrapolating measurements Evaluate impact of SST daily variability on atmospheric models February /39

48 Thank you Questions? February /39

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