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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 2013 1/39
Outline 1 Introduction 2 Wind Offshore 3 Waves 4 Sea Surface Temperature 5 Conclusions 6 Perspectives February 2013 2/39
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 2013 3/39
Wind Measurements Offshore masts expensive Foundation/maintenance costs increase (depth, distance from land) Alternatives: Lidars Satellites Meso/micro scale models February 2013 4/39
1 Introduction 2 Wind Offshore Satellite Winds QuikSCAT SAR 3 Waves 4 Sea Surface Temperature 5 Conclusions 6 Perspectives February 2013 5/39
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 2013 6/39
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 (http://www.knmi.nl/scatterometer/ascat_osi_ 25_prod/ascat_app.cgi). 7/39
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 (http://www.knmi.nl/scatterometer/oscat_ 50_prod/oscat_app.cgi). 8/39
Synthetic Aperture Radar Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar on ENVISAT: speed Operation 2002 2012, 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 2013 9/39
Synthetic Aperture Radar RadarSat-2: 2007 now Sentinel-1 to be launched in 2013 Images are courtesy of ESA. February 2013 10/39
1 Introduction 2 Wind Offshore Satellite Winds QuikSCAT SAR 3 Waves 4 Sea Surface Temperature 5 Conclusions 6 Perspectives February 2013 11/39
QuikSCAT vs North Sea Masts Karagali et al. 2012, Wind Characteristics from the QuikSCAT satellite, Wind Energy, early view February 2013 12/39
10-year Mean Wind Speed 68 o N 10 9.5 64 o N 60 o N 56 o N 9 8.5 8 Mean u (ms 1 ) 52 o N 7.5 0 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, 200-210. February 2013 13/39
Wind Direction Distributions Karagali et al. 2013, Temporal & spatial variability of 10 m winds, Renewable Energy, 57, 200-210. February 2013 14/39
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 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1 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 2013 15/39
1 Introduction 2 Wind Offshore Satellite Winds QuikSCAT SAR 3 Waves 4 Sea Surface Temperature 5 Conclusions 6 Perspectives February 2013 16/39
Spectral Properties of SAR, QuikSCAT S(k) [m 3 s 2 ] S(k) [m 3 s 2 ] 10 6 10 5 10 4 10 3 10 2 10 1 10 6 10 5 10 4 10 3 10 2 10 1 QSCAT QSCAT NS SAR 600m SAR 1.5km SAR 3km SAR 15km SAR 25km 10 5 10 4 10 3 QSCAT QSCAT NS SAR 600m SAR 1.5km SAR 3km SAR 15km SAR 25km k (rad m 1 ) 10 5 10 4 10 3 k (rad m 1 ) Karagali 2012, Spectral properties of QuikSCAT & SAR 10 m ocean winds, DTU-Wind Energy PhD Thesis 03 February 2013 17/39
Wind Class Sampling Badger et al. 2010, Wind class sampling of satellite SAR imagery for offshore wind resource mapping, J. Applied Meteorology & Climatology, 49, 2474-2491 February 2013 18/39
NORSEWInD ASAR Wind atlas SAR scenes used for the wind resource assessment atlas. Courtesy: DTU Wind Energy & CLS. February 2013 19/39
NORSEWInD ASAR Wind atlas Mean wind speed from the resource assessment atlas. Courtesy: DTU Wind Energy & CLS. February 2013 20/39
1 Introduction 2 Wind Offshore 3 Waves 4 Sea Surface Temperature 5 Conclusions 6 Perspectives February 2013 21/39
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: 10 35 days Available climatologies: ESA s GlobWave Figure: The TOPEX/POSEIDON principle of function. Image taken from AVISO (http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/es/kiosco/ newsletter/newsletter01/focus-on.html) February 2013 22/39
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 (http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/en/data/products/wind-wavesproducts/mswhmwind.html) February 2013 23/39
EU ORECCA Roadmap for research activities on offshore renewable energy conversion platforms for Wind Waves Other February 2013 24/39
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 2013 25/39
1 Introduction 2 Wind Offshore 3 Waves 4 Sea Surface Temperature 5 Conclusions 6 Perspectives February 2013 26/39
Definitions of SST Vertical distribution of SST. From Minett & Kaiser-Weis (2012) February 2013 27/39
Satellite Winds & SST 59 o N 20 58 o N 18 16 58 o N SEVIRI dsst at 14 UTC 6 57 o N 56 o N 14 12 10 8 m/s 57 o N 56 o N 5 4 3 dsst 55 o N 6 55 o N 2 4 54 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 2013 28/39
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) 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 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 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 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 2013 29/39
Using SST and Bulk Water Temperature Temperature o C 24 23.5 23 22.5 22 21.5 21 20.5 20 19.5 19 18.5 18 17.5 17 16.5 T: 4m SST T: 13m 16 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Hour Wind speed ms 1 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 U 15m U 10m U 100m 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 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 2013 30/39
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 2013 31/39
Diurnal Warming Thresholds Figure: Left: Annual distribution of anomalies exceeding the threshold of 1, 2 and 3 K from June 2004 to October 2009. 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, 159-170 February 2013 32/39
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, 159-170 February 2013 33/39
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: 10.1002/jgrc.20320 February 2013 34/39
1 Introduction 2 Wind Offshore 3 Waves 4 Sea Surface Temperature 5 Conclusions 6 Perspectives February 2013 35/39
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 2013 36/39
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 2013 36/39
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 2013 36/39
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 2013 36/39
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 2013 36/39
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 2013 36/39
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 2013 36/39
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 2013 36/39
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 2013 36/39
1 Introduction 2 Wind Offshore 3 Waves 4 Sea Surface Temperature 5 Conclusions 6 Perspectives February 2013 37/39
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 2013 38/39
Thank you Questions? February 2013 39/39