Wind characteristics on the Yucatán Peninsula based on short term data from meteorological stations

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• 作者：Rol ; o Soler-Bientz ; Simon Watson ; David Infield
• 关键词：Diurnal wind variation ; Monthly wind variation ; Wind resource assessment ; Atmospheric stability
• 刊名：Energy Conversion and Management
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：April 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：51
• 期：4
• 页码：754-764
• 全文大小：1403 K

文摘

Due to the availability of sparsely populated and flat open terrain, the Yucatán Peninsula located in eastern México is a promising region from the perspective of wind energy development. Study of the diurnal and seasonal wind resource is an important stage in the move towards commercial exploitation of wind power in this Latin American region. An analysis of the characteristics of the wind resource of the Yucatán Peninsula is presented in this paper, based on 10 min averaged wind speed data from nine meteorological stations, between 2000 and 2007. Hourly and monthly patterns of the main environmental parameters have been examined. Highly directional behaviour was identified that reflects the influence of winds coming from the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of México. The characteristics of the wind speed variation observed at the studied sites reflected their proximity to the coast and whether they were influenced by wind coming predominantly from over the land or predominantly from over the sea. The atmospheric stability over the eastern seas of the Yucatán Peninsula was also analysed to assess thermal effects for different wind directions. The findings were consistent with the variation in average wind speeds observed at the coastal sites where winds came predominantly from over the sea. The research presented here is to be used as a basis for a wind atlas for the Yucatán Peninsula.