[1] Model hindcasts of the Columbia River (CR) plume and coastal ocean circulation in summer 2004 are used to describe the subtidal evolution of plume patterns in response to local wind and to examine the plume influence on shelf circulation. It is found that a bi-directional plume occurs frequently on the Washington/Oregon shelf, during weak upwelling favorable wind events, during weakening of...

[1] Using a coupled model of intermediate complexity the sensitivity of the last glacial maximum (LGM) Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) to the strength of surface wind-stress is investigated. A threshold is found below which North Atlantic deep water formation (DWF) takes place south of Greenland and the AMOC is relatively weak. Above this threshold, DWF occurs north of the Gr...

In this study we have analysed wind and wave time series data resulting from hourly measurements on the sea surface in Bushehr, the northern part of the Persian Gulf, from 15 July to 4 August 2000. Wind speed (U10) ranged from 0.34 to 10.38 m/s as alternating sea and land breezes. The lowest wind speed occurs at about midnight and the highest at around noon. The calculated autocorrelation of wi...

Wind energy is often installed in rural, remote areas characterized by weak, unbalanced power transmission grids. In induction wind generators, unbalanced three phase stator voltages cause a number of problems, including overheating and stress on the mechanical components from torque pulsations. Therefore, beyond a certain amount of unbalance (for example 6%), induction wind generators are swit...

This paper mainly deals with the regulation of voltage at wind farm (WF) terminals and the improvement of power quality and WF stability in a WF to Weak-Grid connection. In facilities with moderated power generation, the WF are connected through medium voltage (MV) distribution headlines. A situation commonly found in such scheme is that the power generated is comparable to the transport capaci...

Initial observations by the magnetometer on the twin STEREO spacecraft reveal much about shock structure and evolution in the solar wind. Alignments of STEREO with Venus Express reveal that none of the shocks associated with stream interactions and observed with the STEREO spacecraft at 1 AU were present in the solar wind at 0.7 AU, indicating that the region between Venus and Earth is an incub...

Wind energy is one of the fastest growing renewable energy resources due to global warming. The high electrical power can be generated from an aggregation of multiple wind turbines as a wind farm or wind park. To interconnect it to the utility grid, control system must ensure high power quality and stability. Hence a better analysis of the wind farm is required as it contains induction generato...

introduction one of the important events that usually occur in seas and large water bodies’ concurrent with the change of season is the growth and species increase of phytoplankton. in the natural environment, this event does not result in imbalances of water ecosystems. however, pollution caused by human activities results in excessive growth and reproduction of phytoplankton and other opportu...

An initialization method using airborne Doppler wind lidar data was developed and evaluated for a massconsistent diagnostic wind model over complex terrain. The wind profiles were retrieved from the airborne lidar using a conical scanning scheme and a signal processing algorithm specifically designed for the airborne lidar system. An objective data analysis method in complex terrain was then ap...