Wind Atlas for the Central European Countries, Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovak Republic and Slovenia

1997

105 S.

Bandaufführung

667

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The WASP method can be used properly only in homogenous terrain with flat orography. In observing this limitation (c.f. European Wind Atlas, section 8.10) it represents a well defined tool in the hand of an expert for the assessment of wind energy potentials. For countries with a considerable part of mountainous areas other approaches have to be applied in order to gain area covering comparable results for the wind field in such areas. Mostly, these regions have a high wind energy potential on the crest and ridges of the mountains (but not in their valleys). Thus the above mentioned working group considers that in a second stept on the basis of the already available and quality controlled data, methods should be applied which can overcome the drawbacks of WASP. A few groups within the participating countries had already developed models which are capable of handling specific orographic conditions but has not the ease of use of WASP, working only in the hands of their authors properly (Swoboda, 1990). Other new developments were presented e.g. at the European Union Wind Energy Conference in Göteborg, 1996 by Fiedler (1996), Petersen (1996) and other which gave already useful solutions for that problem.