TY - JOUR
TI - On the Potential Impact of Lake Erie Wind Farms on Water Temperatures and Mixed‐Layer Depths: Some Preliminary 1‐D Modeling Using COHERENS
AU - Afsharian, S
AU - Taylor, P
T2 - Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
AB - Lake Erie has a significant wind energy resource potential, with extensive areas of moderate water depth and proximity to major cities and industries with substantial electricity demands. The presence of significant numbers of large turbines in wind farms will lead to reduced wind speeds and wind stresses in the wakes within and downwind of the farms. This in turn will affect surface fluxes, currents, and mixing in lake waters, generally allowing increased surface temperatures and reduced summer time mixed‐layer depths. The potential magnitude of these impacts is investigated with a one dimensional application of the Coupled Hydrodynamical‐Ecological Model for Regional and Shelf Seas model for three different water depths using observed meteorological data as input.
DA - 2019/03//
PY - 2019
VL - 124
IS - 3
SP - 1736
EP - 1749
UR - https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018JC014577
DO - 10.1029/2018JC014577
LA - English
KW - Wind Energy
KW - Fixed Offshore Wind
KW - Changes in Flow
KW - Physical Environment
KW - Water Quality
ER -