• 신재생에너지
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.13-21
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• 2009

National wind atlas of Korea requires effective database management because it has been constructed by 5-year long-term time-series numerical wind simulation. Therefore, database of the national wind map has been developed to increase data structure efficiency using IDL scientific programming language which has outstanding feature in mega-capacity numerical dataset. Visualization module also has been developed under IDL environment and it is anticipated to maximize post processing efficiency and applicability of the national wind map especially in the standing points of researchers and developers.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.21-29
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• 2016

Commercial wind farm design tools and the national wind map are used to determine the implementation potential of offshore wind power in Korea in this study. For this, the territorial waters of Korea were divided into nine analysis regions and a commercial CFD code was used to obtain wind resource maps at 100m A.S.L. which is the hub height of a 5MW wind turbine used in this study. With the wind resource obtained, factors including water depth, distance from substations, minimum and maximum capacity of a wind farm, distance between turbines and wind farms were considered to determine wind power potential. Also, the conservation areas, military zones, ports, fishing grounds, etc. were considered and excluded. As the result, a total capacity of 6,720 MW was found to be the implementation potential and this corresponds to $3.38MW/km^2$ in API. Also if the distance from the substation is not considered, the potential increased to be 10,040 MW. This offshore wind farm potential is considered enough to satisfy the target of wind farm capacities in the 7th national plan for electricity demand and supply.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2015

Promising onshore wind farm sites in Gangwon province of Korea were investigated in this study. Gangwon province was divided into twenty five simulation regions and a commercial program based on Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes equation was used to find out wind resource maps of the regions. The national wind atlas with a period 2007-2009 developed by Korea institute of energy research was used as climatologies. The wind resource maps were combined to construct a wind resource map of Gangwon province with a horizontal spatial resolution of 100m. In addition to the wind resource, national environmental zoning map, distance from substation, residence and automobile road, Beakdudaegan mountain range, terrain slope, airport and military reservation district were considered to find out promising wind farm sites. A commercial wind farm design program was used to find out developable wind farm capacities in promising wind farm site with and without excluding environmental protection regions. The total wind farm capacities with and without excluding the protection regions were estimated to be 46MW and 598MW, respectively, when a 2MW commercial wind turbine was employed.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.839-843
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• 2011

We have established a wind map of Singapore, a city-state characterized its land cover by urban buildings to confirm a possibility of wind farm development. As a simple but useful approximation of urban canopy, a zero-plane displacement concept was employed. The territory is divided into 15 sectors having similar urban building layouts, and zero-plane displacement, equivalent roughness height at each sector was calculated to setup a terrain boundary condition. Annual mean wind speed and mean wind power density map were drawn by a CFD micrositing model, WindSim where Changi International Airport wind data was used as an in-situ measurement. Unfortunately, predicted wind power density does not exceed 80 $W/m^2$ at 50 m above ground level which would not sufficient for wind power generation. However, the established Singapore wind map is expected to be applied for wind environment assessment and urban planning purpose.

• 대기
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.195-210
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• 2010

This study uses mesoscale model WRF to investigate characteristics of wind fields in South Korea, a region with a complex terrain. Hourly wind fields were simulated for one year representing mean characteristics of an 11-year period from year 1998 to year 2008. The simulations were performed on a nested grid from 27 km down to 1 km horizontal resolution. Seasonal variation of wind speed indicates that wind is strongest during the spring and winter seasons. Spatial distribution of mean wind speed shows wind energy potential at its peak in mountainous region of Gangwon-do, the east coast, and Jeju Island. Wind speed peaks at night in mountainous and eastern coastal regions, and in the afternoon inland and in the southwestern coastal region. The simulated wind map was verified with four upper-air sounding observations. Wind speed was shown to have a more pronounced overestimation tendency relative to observation in the winter rather than summer. The results of this wind mapping study help identify locations with the highest wind energy potential in South Korea.

• 신재생에너지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.44-53
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• 2005

To understand general status of the national wind environment and to distinguish potential areas to be developed as a largescale wind farm, a synoptic wind map of the Korean Peninsula is established by processing remote sensing data of the satellite, NASA QuikSCAT which Is deployed for the SeaWinds Project since 1999. According to the validation results obtained by comparing with the measurement data of marine buoys of KMA(Korea Meteorological Administration), the cross-correlation factor Is greatly Improved up to 0.87 by blending the sea-surface dat3 of QuikSCAT with NCEP/NCAR CDAS data. It is found from the established synoptic wind map that the wind speed in winter is prominent temporally and the South Sea shows high energy density up to the wind class 6 spatially. The reason is deduced that the northwest winds through the yellow Sea and the northeast winds through the East Sea derived by the low-pressure developed in Japan are accelerated passing through the Korea Channel and formed high wind energy region in the South Sea; the same trends are confirmed by the statistical analysis of meteorological observation data of KMA.

• 대한공간정보학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.15-22
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• 2015

풍력자원지도의 작성을 위해 기본적으로 지형고도자료, 지면조도자료, 풍황자료가 필요하다. 그 중 지면조도자료의 경우 토지피복분류 기법을 통한 토지피복지도를 이용하여 구할 수 있다. 지면조도지도의 경우 토지피복의 성질에 따라 풍속의 조도계수가 다르게 되며, 이러한 조도계수에 근거하여 정확한 지면조도지도를 만들 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 Landsat위성자료를 이용하여 무감독 분류 방법과 식생지수법을 사용하여 지면조도자료를 생성한 후 풍력자원지도를 작성하였다. 이렇게 만들어진 풍력자원지도를 근거로 식생지수법의 사용이 무감독 분류 기법에 비하여 타당한지를 검증하였다. 그 결과, 식생지수를 사용한 풍력자원지도는 관측 자료와 비교한 경과 60% 이상의 등급 일치율을 보였고 불일치하는 픽셀에 대해서는 최대 등급의 차이를 넘지 않았다. 따라서 풍력자원지도 생성 시 필요한 지면조도지도를 계산할 경우 식생지수를 이용한 분류방법이 효과적인 것으로 판단된다.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.1157-1167
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• 2010

본 논문은 남한지역 풍력자원의 계량화 및 바람환경분석 등에 필요한 풍력에너지지도를 고해상도로 작성하는 방법을 제안하였다. 이를 위해 $1Km{\times}1Km$ 격자로 나누어진 남한전역(345,682 지점)의 월별풍속에 적합한 통계적 바람장모형을 설정하여 각종 풍력에너지통계를 $1Km{\times}1Km$ 격자지점 별로 계산하고, 통계값들를 지도로 구현하는 절차를 연구하였다. 바람장모형의 적합성검정에는 국내 76개 기상관측소에서 관측된 TMY (typical meteorological year) 바람자료가 사용되었으며, Kolmogrov-Smirnov 검정결과 로그정규모형이 남한지역의 월별 바람장모형에 적합하였다. 또한 로그정규모형 하에서 얻어지는 다양한 형태의 풍력에너지통계들을 소개하였으며, 국립기상연구소가 제공하는 $1Km{\times}1Km$ 격자지점(345,682 지점)의 풍속자료를 사용하여 남한(지상 80m)의 풍력에너지밀도(W/$m^2$)지도를 공간분포도 형태로 작성해 보였다.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.17-27
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• 2014

Wind power which is one of renewable energies is higher economical efficiency and technical maturity than other renewable energies. Recently, the government of ROK announced to increase the proportion of renewable energy through the National Energy Plan. Also, industry required to deregulate for large-scale wind power as Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) is introduced. Wind power whereas the eco-friendly energy, is a serious level of damage of the natural environment and topography when the wind power is located. Therefore, the study selected the indicators required for site selection of wind power and proposed the feasible area for wind power based on wind resource map. We selected the 15 indicators including 12 legal protected area, Ecology and Nature Map, rarity, and connectivity (National Ecological Network). After site selection, we should be considered slope and altitude at the stage of design for wind farm to mitigate the environmental impact. Results of analysis showed that 22.3% of wind resource map is available to locate wind power in real. Through the field survey we had verified the accuracy of the results was significantly correct.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2008

The wind resource potentials of South Korea are estimated as preliminary stage using the national wind map which has been being established by numerical wind simulation and GIS (Geographical Information System) exclusion analysis. The wind resource potentials are classifying into theoretical, geographical, technical and implementation potentials and the calculation results are verified by comparing to other countries' potentials. In GIS exclusion, urban, road, water body, national parks and steep slope area are excluded from onshore geographical potential while water depth and offshore distance from the shoreline are applied as offshore exclusion conditions. To estimate implementation potential, dissemination records of European countries are adopted which is about 1/8 of geographical potential. The implementation potential of South Korea would correspond 12.5GW which is 1.7 times of the national wind energy dissemination target until 2030.