American Meteorological Society
Weather and Climate Enterprise Commission
Board on Enterprise Planning
Annual Partnership Topic (APT)
Offshore Wind Energy
Charge
“The Offshore Wind Energy Committee will
have an overarching charge to discuss the
need and expansion of environmental data
to support studies of the wind resource and
conditions relevant to wind farm
development/operation in offshore
locations.”
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Engage appropriate government, private
industry, and academic institutions and/or
agencies
Prepare report and make recommendations
Engagement
• National Academies
– Transportation Board; Board on Atmospheric Science & Climate
• American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)
– Paper: expand data collection, models, data repository, research
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White House Office of Science & Technology Policy…
National Oceanographic Partnership Program
NSF Program on Offshore Energy Technologies
DOE-led Interagency Working Group on Resource Characterization
and Design, DOE-NOAA pilot projects…
– Data requirements, extend observation infrastructure, advance models
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AMS Summer Meeting
IOOS Regional Association Meetings,
Marine Technology sector
Regional: CMSP, interagency & academic
International: industry, science researchers, embassies
Scope
• Data inventory: compile a sense of what is available
now and what is missing
• Data accessibility and interoperability
• Data quality control
• Barriers to data utilization by the weather community
• Associated research of vertical wind profiles, gusting,
and wake effect in the offshore environment
• Extreme event impacts [Hurricane and other northeasters] to potential wind farm construction and
operation
Task Themes
• Minimize implementation barriers
– Collecting and assessing impact data (wind, wave, ice; CMSP)
– Ensuring that non-proprietary data is made available …e.g. through
the IOOS data management system
• Accelerate and/or support the implementation of products
enabled by offshore wind energy datasets
– Establishing national data repository and information portals (including
ocean policy)
– Using models to determine impacts and use conflicts
• Accelerate and/or support the implementation of new datasets
– Formalizing data exchange and management agreements/policy
– Establishing public-private integration/interoperability standards
– Advancing regional and international platforms, reference stations, for
monitoring, calibration of sensors
• Process the data to ensure quick utilization
– Enabling public private partnerships and transition to operations
• Engage the weather, climate, energy, ocean and transportation
communities to move the data partnership and technologies
development forward
Timeline
• Spring 2010
Offshore Wind Energy Team Created and
Approved by AMS Board of Enterprise
Planning.
• April 2010
Formalize inventory and analysis approach
• Summer – Fall 2010 Conduct informational gathering sessions.
• December 2010
Finalize approach
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January 2011
January 2011
Summer- Fall 2011
December 2011
• January 2012
Hold Townhall at AMS Annual Conf. in Seattle
Finalize assignments and engagement actions
Conduct stakeholder sessions; draft reports
Finalize report
Hold Offshore Wind Energy Session
at AMS Annual Conference in New Orleans
Membership
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Larry Atkinson,
Bruce Bailey,
Earle Buckley,
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Bill Carle,
Bruce Carlisle
Brian Colle,
Elliot Dennis
Laura Furgione,
David Green,
Nick Keener,
James Kendall,
Gary Norton,
Tom Paylor,
Melinda Marquis ,
Tim Spangler,
Old Dominion University, Chair latkinso@odu.edu
AWS Truepower bbailey@awstruepower.com
Buckley Environmental Research & Services,
member BEPEarle Buckley earlebuckley@comcast.net
DOD/USAF William.Carle@pentagon.af.mil
Mass CZM bruce.Carlisle@state.ma.us
Stony Brook University colle@cyclone.msrc.sunysb.edu
DOE NREL Dennis.Elliott@nrel.gov
NOAA/NWS, next BEP Chair laura.furgione@noaa.gov
NOAA/NWS david.green@noaa.gov
Duke Energy nick.keener@duke-energy.com
DOI/MMS nick.keener@duke-energy.com
DOE Gary.Norton@ee.doe.gov
RenRe tcp@renre.com
NOAA/ESRL Melinda.Marquis@noaa.gov
UCAR Tim Spangler tspang@ucar.edu