Hellmann-constant-based extrapolation of wind speed for higher altitudes

Hellmann-constant-based extrapolation of wind speed for higher altitudes

fWindSpeedExtrapolation(m, W10M, hellmann)

fWSE(m, W10M, hellmann)

Arguments

m

height (in meters) for which wind speed will be estimated;

W10M

wind speed at height of 10 meters (from MERRA2 database);

hellmann

Hellmann exponent (calculated with fHellmann function)

Value

a numeric vector of estimated wind speed (m/s) at the m height (meters).

References

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_gradient>

See also

fHellmann (fH) for estimation of Hellmann exponent

Examples

h <- fH(5, 7)
fWSE(50, 5, h)
#> [1] 7
fWSE(100, 5, h)
#> [1] 8.091554
fWSE(seq(50, 200, 50), 5, h)
#> [1] 7.000000 8.091554 8.807364 9.353322