edu.ucar.opensky::articles:27096 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-24T18:53:07.266553 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7m049m1 Identifying wind regimes near Kuwait using self-organizing maps 2024-03-06T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7m049m1 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0152718 Naegele, Steven M. author Lee, J. A. author Greybush, S. J. author Young, G. S. author Haupt, Sue Ellen author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher Optimization of wind energy integration requires knowing the relationship between weather patterns and winds they cause. For a region with less-studied weather such as the Middle East, climatology becomes more vital. The Shagaya Renewable Energy Park in development in Kuwait experiences regional wind regimes that affect wind power production. Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model output allowed investigation into the weather regimes most likely to impact Shagaya Park. The self-organizing maps (SOMs) machine-learning method clustered the WRF output into six primary weather regimes experienced by the Middle East. According to the wind regimes mapped by the SOM, two of the six regimes have average wind speeds of approximately 9.9 and 8.6 m s(-1) at 80 m near Shagaya Park, as well as wind speed and estimated wind power distributions that are more favorable to wind power production in Kuwait. One regime depicts a strong northwesterly wind called the summer shamal, and the second is associated with strong westerlies. Regimes less favorable for Kuwaiti wind power production are represented by the remaining four SOM nodes: local weak southeasterlies, an African nocturnal low-level jet, a daytime planetary boundary layer, and local northwesterlies from autumn to spring. The remaining four SOM nodes have average wind speeds of 5.7-7.2 m s(-1) and wind speed and estimated wind power distributions which indicate regimes less favorable for wind power production in Kuwait. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright 2024 AIP Publishing LLC None eng geoscientificInformation