Simulating the Impacts of Wind Farm Wake under the Changes in MYNN Planetary Boundary Layer Scheme in High Resolution Weather Research and Forecasting Model

Abstract

This study focuses on simulating the impacts of wind farm wake due to changes in the Mellor-Yamanda-Nakanishi-Niino (MYNN) planetary boundary layer (PBL) scheme in a high-resolution mesoscale Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model for a non-flat region in Turkey. This is the first study with a comprehensive evaluation of simulated wind farm wake impact responses to changes in the MYNN PBL scheme in the WRF model. Our results show that the WRF-WFP solutions for the wind farm wake impact significantly change with a change in the MYNN PBL scheme. In addition, the incorrect TKE advection and the correction factor of 0.25 for the TKE coefficient in wind farm parametrization (WFP) cause incorrect wind farm wake impacts especially on TKE and air temperature. Our study also shows that modifications in the mixing length create greater changes in simulated wind farm wake impacts than activation of the mass-flux scheme. In this study, the relative contributions of WFP’s components are also evaluated.