Observational data of the severe typhoon Hagupit are obtained by a 3-dimensional ultrasonic anemometer which is installed on a 100-meter-high meteorological tower located at an islet off the coast of Guangdong.The characteristics of the extreme wind load parameters for offshore wind turbines under the influence of extreme winds at severe typhoon intensity are analyzed.By comparing the observed data with the results derived from the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standard 61400-1,the applicability of the methods computing extreme wind load parameters in the IEC standard are investigated under typhoon conditions.The results are as follows.(1) The changes of both the offshore extreme gust wind speeds and the extreme wind directions render a "M" shape bi-modal distribution with peak values in the eyewall region of Hagupit.(2) There are significant differences of amplitudes of the observed extreme operating gust wind speeds and extreme wind direction from the results calculated from the IEC standard.(3) The amplitudes of both the extreme operating gust wind speeds and the extreme directions exceed the upper limits of the IEC standard for three standard classes of wind turbines,and the values calculated by IEC standard are much significantly larger than the measured ones.(4) The observed extreme operating gust wind speeds are consistent with the results calculated by the IEC standard when wind turbines are under full or partial workload or cut-off conditions,although the amplitude of extreme wind directions calculated in terms of the IEC standard is larger than that of direct measurements.Measured extreme operating gust wind speeds sometimes exceed the IEC design criteria.
For the purpose of investigating the turbulent and spatial coherent characteristics of strong wind during typhoon landing period,two 3-dimensional ultrasonic anemometer stations were set up 30 m horizontally apart on the Macao Friendship Bridge to caputure the turbulent wind velocities of Typhoon Nuri. Based on the reliable and representative field measured data,the mean wind speed and direction,turbulence intensity,turbulence integral scale,turbulence power spectra,spatial correlation coefficient and coherence function were statistically evaluated. The field measurement analysis have presented the following results: 1) Two anemometer stations provided consistent results. The mean wind speed variation in time domain presented typical M-shape curves. The strong wind (10-minute mean wind speed higher than 8th grade in Beaufort wind scale) direction changed in a big range up to 122-degrees-angle,indicating the field measurements scoped over the typhoon landing period. 2) The ratio of the longitudinal,lateral and vertical turbulence intensities of the strong wind in the typhoon eye wall region was 1:0.96:0.36. Compared with the code defined ratio 1:0.88:0.5,the lateral component was larger and the vertical component was smaller. 3) The value of integral scale increased when the eye wall of Typhoon Nuri passed over the field measurement site. Before the center of Typhoon Nuri arrived,the integral scale of the strong typhoon wind was about twice compared with that for the non-typhoon wind. 4) The spatial correlation of the turbulent wind,coherence function curve and the decay factor had significant differences at different times during the typhoon process. In the eye wall of the typhoon,the horizontal spatial correlation was relatively strong and horizontally spatial correlation spectrum decayed slower with frequency increase. The minimum regressed coefficient C in coherence function model was 4.67,which is lower than the code defined low limit. The maximum decay factor was 27.75 which is larger than the code defined u
SONG LiLi1, PANG JiaBin2, JIANG ChengLin3, HUANG HaoHui3 & QIN Peng3 1 Guangzhou Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology, CMA, Guangzhou 510080, China
Based on one year gradient wind data and the wind data of a strong typhoon observed by three meteorological towers located on the coast and at the inshore sea,the underlying surfaces of the meteorological towers were classified and the roughness lengths were calculated quantitatively.On the basis of strong wind characteristic representative assessment and sample selection on the wind data of strong typhoon Hagupit,the gust factor variation characteristics of tropical cyclones under different underlying surfaces were analyzed.The observed fact and variation rule were found as follows:1) The roughness lengths under neutral atmospheric condition which were calculated using logarithmic wind profile fitting based on the observation data can describe the slight change of the underlying surface objectively.2) The gust factor of strong typhoon wind didn't have variation trends with wind speed.But the variation amplitude of the gust factor was rather large over rough underlying surface which had pronounced effect on the numerical design of structural engineering.3) The variation of the gust factor with height satisfied power law or logarithmic law.The power law fitting was more suitable for smooth underlying surface while the logarithmic fitting was better over rough underlying surface.4) The observation data also suggested that the relationship between gust factor and roughness length can be described by power or linear equation.5) The gust factor observed in this typhoon case was different from the gust factor recommended by WMO:The gust factor of the offshore wind came from rough underlying surface was higher than the value recommended by WMO while the gust factor of the onshore wind came from smooth underlying surface is less than the WMO recommended value.
