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QuikSCAT<br />

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Fino 1<br />

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EAZ<br />

MB=−0.21 m s −1<br />

σ=1.3 m s −1<br />

r=0.93<br />

r.m.s.=1.3 m s −1<br />

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(a) Wind Speed<br />

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Fino 1<br />

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MB=−3 °<br />

σ=15.3 °<br />

r=0.98<br />

r.m.s.=15.6 °<br />

N=2189<br />

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(b) Wind Direction<br />

Figure 201: Scatterplots and statistics of in situ and QuikSCAT wind speed and direction.<br />

Measurements from 4 meteorological masts in the North Sea have been used. The RSS v3<br />

QuikSCAT data are used. The work was performed within the NORSEWInD project frame.<br />

of the wind power and Weibull parameters and compared those estimates with the ones derived<br />

from offshore met. masts. For two offshore locations, a maximum 14% deviation in the<br />

wind power and 2.7% deviation in the mean wind speed was found between 1601 QuikSCAT<br />

observations and 137717 10-min measurements.<br />

16.6 Applications of QuikSCAT Surface Winds<br />

Due to their frequent, long and global nature, QuikSCAT data are ideal for an evaluation of<br />

the wind resources. A description of the mean spatial wind characteristics and the climatology<br />

of the Mediterranean Sea is available from Zecchetto and De Biasio (2007), for the Nordic<br />

Seas from Kolstad (2008) and for the global ocean from Risien and Chelton (2006).<br />

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Figure 202: a) Number of rain-free QuikSCAT observations from 11/99–10/09.b)Mean wind<br />

speed using rain-free QuikSCAT observations for the period 1999-2009. Taken from Karagali<br />

et al. (2013).<br />

Within the context of offshore wind energy, Liu et al. (2008) estimated the wind power<br />

distribution over the ocean from eight years of QuikSCAT measurements. Capps and Zender<br />

(2010)estimatedtheglobaloceanwindpowerpotentialfromQuikSCATandliftedthesatellite<br />

<strong>DTU</strong> Wind Energy-E-Report-0029(EN) 303<br />

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