Distributions and correlation properties of offshore wind speeds and wind speed increments

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Hauptverfasser: Sim, So-Kumneth, Maass, Philipp, Roman, H. Eduardo
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author Sim, So-Kumneth
Maass, Philipp
Roman, H. Eduardo
author_facet Sim, So-Kumneth
Maass, Philipp
Roman, H. Eduardo
contents We determine distributions and correlation properties of offshore wind speeds and wind speed increments by analyzing wind data sampled with a resolution of one second for 20 months at different heights above sea level in the North Sea. Distributions of horizontal wind speeds can be fitted to Weibull distributions with shape and scale parameters varying weakly with the vertical height separation. Kullback-Leibler divergences between distributions at different heights change with the squared logarithm of the height ratio. Cross-correlations between time derivatives of wind speeds are long-term anticorrelated, and the even parts of their correlation functions satisfy sum rules. Distributions of horizontal wind speed increments change from a tent-like shape to a Gaussian with rising increment lag. A surprising peak occurs in the left tail of the increment distributions for lags in a range $10-200\,{\rm km}$ after applying the Taylor's hypothesis locally to transform time lags into distances. The peak is decisive in order to obtain an expected and observed linear scaling of third-order structure functions with distance. This suggests that it is an intrinsic feature of atmospheric turbulence.
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spellingShingle Distributions and correlation properties of offshore wind speeds and wind speed increments
Sim, So-Kumneth
Maass, Philipp
Roman, H. Eduardo
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
We determine distributions and correlation properties of offshore wind speeds and wind speed increments by analyzing wind data sampled with a resolution of one second for 20 months at different heights above sea level in the North Sea. Distributions of horizontal wind speeds can be fitted to Weibull distributions with shape and scale parameters varying weakly with the vertical height separation. Kullback-Leibler divergences between distributions at different heights change with the squared logarithm of the height ratio. Cross-correlations between time derivatives of wind speeds are long-term anticorrelated, and the even parts of their correlation functions satisfy sum rules. Distributions of horizontal wind speed increments change from a tent-like shape to a Gaussian with rising increment lag. A surprising peak occurs in the left tail of the increment distributions for lags in a range $10-200\,{\rm km}$ after applying the Taylor's hypothesis locally to transform time lags into distances. The peak is decisive in order to obtain an expected and observed linear scaling of third-order structure functions with distance. This suggests that it is an intrinsic feature of atmospheric turbulence.
title Distributions and correlation properties of offshore wind speeds and wind speed increments
topic Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12934