README for wind turbine drag parameterization schemes, added 20101220. JM *Compiling the code.* no different from normal *Running the code.* There are new variables added to the phys block of the namelist.input file. The string valued variable windturbines_spec controls the overall operation of the scheme. If it's set to "none" (quotes included) the wind turbine scheme is off. If it's set to "ideal", the turbine drag scheme is in idealized mode and other namelist variables in the block control the geometry and characteristics of the wind farm. If it's set to the name of a file in the run directory -- for example, "windspec.in" -- then the scheme is on and the location and characteristics of each turbine is set individually from the contents of that file. Which scheme is active will be controlled by another variable TBD (not yet implemented, since there's only one scheme right now). *Idealized configuration.* If windturbines_spec is set to "ideal", the geometry and characteristics of the farm are controlled by the following additional variables in the phys block of the namelist.input file: name type sample description value turbgridid integer 1 id of the WRF domain containing the farm hubheight real 100. height in meters of all turbine hubs in farm diameter real 100. diameter in meters of all turbine rotors in farm stdthrcoef real 0.158 standing thrust coefficient of all turbines in farm cutinspeed real 3.5 cut in speed (m/s) of all turbines in farm cutoutspeed real 30. cut out speed (m/s) of all turbines in farm power real 5.0 nominal power (MW) of all turbines in farm turbpercell real 1.0 number of turbines per grid cell ewfx integer 10 x-extent of rectangular wind farm in grid cells ewfy integer 10 y-extent of rectangular wind farm in grid cells pwfx integer 45 x-coordinate of grid cell in sw corner of farm pwfy integer 45 y-coordinate of grid cell in sw corner of farm *Real-world configuration.* The location and characteristics of each turbine is specified individually in the file named by the variable windturbines_spec. Each line of the file specifies one turbine. The entries of a line are separated by spaces. The entries are listed in order on the line and specify the following, by position on the line: 1. The WRF grid id into which the turbine is placed [integer] 2. True latitude of the wind turbine in degrees [real] 3. True longitude of the wind turbine in degrees [real] 4. Height in meters of the turbine hub [real] 5. Diameter in meters of the rotor [real] 6. Standing thrust coefficient [real] 7. Nominal power of turbine (MW) [real] 8. Cutin speed (m/s) [real] 9. Cutout speed (m/s) [real] The location of each turbine is specified using the lat and lon elements for the turbine's entry in the windspec file. That is, the i,j index in the grid is computed from the true latitude (entry 2) and the true longitude (entry 3). The coordinate in the j dimension is computed by checking true latitude against the LAT_V field in the wrfinput initial conditions file. The i dimension is computed by checking the true longitude against LONG_U field in the wrfinput file. *Pseudo-real configuration.* This mode is only for testing the real-world specification mechanism. The contents of the windspec.in file in the em_seabreeze2d_x directory contains a specification that is identical to the ideal specification shown above. However, instead of true latitude and true longitude, elements 2 and 3 of each entry specify the i,j grid coordinates of the turbine. The code knows to treat these as grid coordinates instead of latitude and longitude because for idealized WRF cases, the LAT and LONG fields in wrfinput files are set to all zero. When the model reads a wrfinput file for an idealized case, it checks to see if the lat and lon fields of the case have data in them or if they are just zeros. If they do not have data in them (just have zeros) fields 2 and 3 of the windspec file are treated as i,j coordinates are used. A sample windspec file for a pseudo-real run is in test/em_seabreeze2d_x/windspec.in). *Specific note for the Fitch scheme.* The Fitch scheme is based on Blahak et al, 2010, of Wetter Jetzt GbR. The specific implementation comes from Anna Fitch, Alok Gupta, and Idar Barstad at Uni Bergen, Norway. It was added to this release of WRF by Jimy Dudhia, Joe Olson (NOAA), Julie Lundquist (U. Colorado/NREL), and John Michalakes (NREL). It works with the MYNN PBL and modifies the QKE field representing 2xTKE to include the TKE produced by wind turbines. QKE is advected as a part of the scalar 4D tracer array in WRF.