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Harindra J S Fernando

Affiliation/Employer
Other
Partner Affiliation
none
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9638-0698
Publon ID
N-5339-2014

Publications

Corresponding Articles: 4

Harindra J S Fernando authored and/or contributed to the following articles/publications.

Evaluating the WFIP2 updates to the HRRR model using scanning Doppler lidar measurements in the complex terrain of the Columbia River Basin

The wind-energy (WE) industry relies on numerical weather prediction (NWP) forecast models as foundational or base models for many purposes, including wind-resource assessment and wind-power forecasting. During the Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP2) in the Columbia River Basin of Oregon and Washington, a significant effort was made...

Harindra J S Fernando
Institutions Earth System Research Laboratory - ESRL National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA

Characterizing NWP Model Errors Using Doppler-Lidar Measurements of Recurrent Regional Diurnal Flows: Marine-Air Intrusions into the Columbia River BasinMarine-Air Intrusions into the Columbia River Basin

Ground-based Doppler-lidar instrumentation provides atmospheric wind data at dramatically improved accuracies and spatial/temporal resolutions. These capabilities have provided new insights into atmospheric flow phenomena, but they also should have a strong role in NWP model improvement. Insight into the nature of model errors can be gained by s...

Harindra J S Fernando
Institution National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA

The Perdigão: Peering into Microscale Details of Mountain Winds

A grand challenge from the wind energy industry is to provide reliable forecasts on mountain winds several hours in advance at microscale (∼100 m) resolution. This requires better microscale wind-energy physics included in forecasting tools, for which field observations are imperative. While mesoscale (∼1 km) measurements abound, microscale proc...

Harindra J S Fernando
Institution National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA

Measurements and Model Improvement: Insight into NWP Model Error Using Doppler Lidar and Other WFIP2 Measurement Systems

Doppler-lidar wind-profile measurements at three sites were used to evaluate NWP model errors from two versions of NOAA’s 3-km-grid HRRR model, to see whether updates in the latest version 4 reduced errors when compared against the original version 1. Nested (750-m grid) versions of each were also tested to see how grid spacing affected forecast...

Harindra J S Fernando
Institution National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA