Project Publications

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  1. D. J. N. Allaerts, Eliot Quon, Caroline Draxl, and Matthew Churchfield. Development of a Time–Height Profile Assimilation Technique for Large-Eddy Simulation. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2020. doi:10.1007/s10546-020-00538-5.

  2. Dries Allaerts, Eliot Quon, and Matt Churchfield. Using observational mean-flow data to drive large-eddy simulations of a diurnal cycle at the SWiFT site. Wind Energy: Progress in Wind Energy Research from the NAWEA/WindTech 2022 Conference, 2022.

  3. Robert S. Arthur, Timothy W. Juliano, Bianca Adler, Raghavendra Krishnamurthy, Julie K. Lundquist, Branko Kosović, and Pedro A. Jiménez. Improved Representation of Horizontal Variability and Turbulence in Mesoscale Simulations of an Extended Cold-Air Pool Event. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 61(6):685–707, June 2022. doi:10.1175/JAMC-D-21-0138.1.

  4. Caroline Draxl, Dries Allaerts, Eliot Quon, and Matt Churchfield. Coupling Mesoscale Budget Components to Large-Eddy Simulations for Wind-Energy Applications. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 179(1):73–98, April 2021. doi:10.1007/s10546-020-00584-z.

  5. Masih Eghdami, Ana P. Barros, Pedro A. Jiménez, Timothy W. Juliano, and Branko Kosovic. Diagnosis of Second-Order Turbulent Properties of the Surface Layer for Three-Dimensional Flow Based on the Mellor–Yamada Model. Monthly Weather Review, 150(5):1003–1021, May 2022. doi:10.1175/MWR-D-21-0101.1.

  6. Sue Ellen Haupt, Branko Kosovic, William Shaw, Larry K. Berg, Matthew Churchfield, Joel Cline, Caroline Draxl, Brandon Ennis, Eunmo Koo, Rao Kotamarthi, Laura Mazzaro, Jeffrey Mirocha, Patrick Moriarty, Domingo Muñoz-Esparza, Eliot Quon, Raj K. Rai, Michael Robinson, and Gokhan Sever. On Bridging a Modeling Scale Gap: Mesoscale to Microscale Coupling for Wind Energy. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, August 2019. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0033.1.

  7. Sue Ellen Haupt, Rao Kotamarthi, Yan Feng, Jeffrey D. Mirocha, Eunmo Koo, Rod Linn, Branko Kosovic, Barbara Brown, Amanda Anderson, Matthew J. Churchfield, Caroline Draxl, Eliot Quon, William Shaw, Larry Berg, Raj Rai, and Brandon L. Ennis. Second Year Report of the Atmosphere to Electrons Mesoscale to Microscale Coupling Project: Nonstationary Modeling Techniques and Assessment. Technical Report PNNL-26267, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, February 2017.

  8. Patrick Hawbecker and Matthew Churchfield. Evaluating Terrain as a Turbulence Generation Method. Energies, 14(21):6858, January 2021. doi:10.3390/en14216858.

  9. Patrick Hawbecker, William Lassman, Jeff Mirocha, Raj K. Rai, Regis Thedin, Matthew Churchfield, Sue Ellen Haupt, and Colleen Kaul. Offshore Sensitivities across Scales: A NYSERDA Case Study. In 102nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. 2022.

  10. Balaji Jayaraman, Eliot Quon, Jing Li, and Tanmoy Chatterjee. Structure of Offshore Low-Level Jet Turbulence and Implications to Mesoscale-to-Microscale Coupling. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2265(2):022064, May 2022. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/2265/2/022064.

  11. Timothy W. Juliano, Branko Kosović, Pedro A. Jiménez, Masih Eghdami, Sue Ellen Haupt, and Alberto Martilli. “Gray Zone” Simulations Using a Three-Dimensional Planetary Boundary Layer Parameterization in the Weather Research and Forecasting Model. Monthly Weather Review, 150(7):1585–1619, July 2022. doi:10.1175/MWR-D-21-0164.1.

  12. Colleen Kaul. WRF Modeling Practices for Wind Energy: Current Status and Future Needs. Technical Report PNNL-xxxxx, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2022.

  13. B. Kosovic, P. Jiménez, T. W. Juliano, M. Eghdami, and S. E. Haupt. Analysis of Horizontal Shear and Mixing at a Range of Length Scales Using Filtered Large-Eddy Simulation of a Flow over Complex Terrain. In American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting. December 2020.

  14. B. Kosovic, P. Jiménez, T. W. Juliano, M. Eghdami, and S. E. Haupt. Analysis of Horizontal Shear and Mixing at Gray Zone Length Scales Using Filtered Large-Eddy Simulation of a Flow over Complex Terrain. In 101st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Mesoscale Processes Across Scales: Engaging with Communities in the Physical and Social Sciences. January 2021.

  15. B. Kosović, P. Jimenez Munoz, T. W. Juliano, A. Martilli, M. Eghdami, A. P. Barros, and S. E. Haupt. Three-Dimensional Planetary Boundary Layer Parameterization for High-Resolution Mesoscale Simulations. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1452(1):012080, January 2020. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1452/1/012080.

  16. L. J. Mazzaro, E. Koo, D. Muñoz-Esparza, J. K. Lundquist, and R. R. Linn. Random Force Perturbations: A New Extension of the Cell Perturbation Method for Turbulence Generation in Multiscale Atmospheric Boundary Layer Simulations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11(7):2311–2329, 2019. doi:10.1029/2019MS001608.

  17. E. W. Quon, A. S. Ghate, and S. K. Lele. Enrichment methods for inflow turbulence generation in the atmospheric boundary layer. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1037(7):072054, 2018. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1037/7/072054.

  18. Raj K. Rai, Larry K. Berg, Branko Kosović, Sue Ellen Haupt, Jeffrey D. Mirocha, Brandon L. Ennis, and Caroline Draxl. Evaluation of the Impact of Horizontal Grid Spacing in Terra Incognita on Coupled Mesoscale–Microscale Simulations Using the WRF Framework. Monthly Weather Review, 147(3):1007–1027, March 2019. doi:10.1175/MWR-D-18-0282.1.

  19. Alex Rybchuk, Timothy W. Juliano, Julie K. Lundquist, David Rosencrans, Nicola Bodini, and Mike Optis. The Sensitivity of the Fitch Wind Farm Parameterization to a Three-Dimensional Planetary Boundary Layer Scheme. Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss. [preprint], 2021.

  20. Regis Thedin, Eliot Quon, Matthew Churchfield, and Paul Veers. Investigations of Correlation and Coherence in Turbulence from a Large-Eddy Simulation. Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., 2022. doi:10.5194/wes-2022-71.

  21. Domingo Muñoz-Esparza and Branko Kosović. Generation of Inflow Turbulence in Large-Eddy Simulations of Nonneutral Atmospheric Boundary Layers with the Cell Perturbation Method. Monthly Weather Review, 146(6):1889–1909, June 2018. doi:10.1175/MWR-D-18-0077.1.