Comparison of seven wind gust parameterizations over the European part of Russia

Wind gusts are extreme events which can cause severe damage. Gusts can reach significant values even during medium winds. However, numerical atmospheric models are designed to reproduce average wind speed, not gusts. There are several approaches to estimating wind gusts. Seven different methods are...

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Published in:Advances in science and research 2018-11, Vol.15, p.251-255
Main Authors: Kurbatova, Maria, Rubinstein, Konstantin, Gubenko, Inna, Kurbatov, Grigory
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anemometers
Atmospheric models
False alarms
Gusts
Statistical analysis
Wind
Wind speed
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Summary:Wind gusts are extreme events which can cause severe damage. Gusts can reach significant values even during medium winds. However, numerical atmospheric models are designed to reproduce average wind speed, not gusts. There are several approaches to estimating wind gusts. Seven different methods are applied to WRF-ARW model output. Results are compared to high-frequency wind speed measurements using ultrasonic anemometers and temperature profiler measurement at the same point in Moscow. Data gathered from synoptic station network over the European part of Russia were also included in the analysis to increase the statistics. None of the wind gust estimation methods shows best results at every skill score. The proposed hybrid method shows good balance between the probability of detection and the false alarm ratio estimates.
ISSN:1992-0636
1992-0628
1992-0636
DOI:10.5194/asr-15-251-2018