Advances in research of influence on climate of the group of wind farms in past 20 years

doi:10.12006/j.issn.1673-1719.2017.009

Abstract

Abstract:

With the large-scale development of wind farms, its influence on climate is concerned. Since 2000, a few of studies have been carried out in countries such as the U.S. and Europe. China is still in the infancy, and the review of existing research can guide the further development of this work. The research progress, methods, influence mechanism and research results of impacts of wind farms on climate were summarized. A large number of observation and simulation results show that wind farms caused the rise of surface temperature and attenuation of downwind speed, it also affected precipitation, evaporation and other meteorological elements indirectly. The conclusion that wind farm has an influence on local climate change has reliability. Some model simulating results show that large-scale wind farm groups in the future may have an impact on global climate and further exploration is needed.

Key words: Wind farm, Influence on climate, Local climate, Temperature, Wind speed

Zheng-Hong CHEN,Fei HE,Yang CUI,Xue-Ting ZHANG. Advances in research of influence on climate of the group of wind farms in past 20 years[J]. Climate Change Research, 2018, 14(4): 381-391.

Figures/Tables 4

Table 1 List of climatic effects researches of wind farms domestic and overseas since 2000

Fig. 1 Schematic diagram of the climate impact of wind farms on wind farms and surrounding areas.

Fig. 2 The scatter diagram of temperature change of different temperature tilting rate under 300 m in wind farms simulated by RAMS [20] .

Fig. 3 The curve of average wind speed inside and downstream of wind farm at a height of 70 m [41].

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