{"id":9000,"date":"2026-09-21T13:08:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/?p=9000"},"modified":"2026-09-21T22:51:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:51:37","slug":"improved-representation-of-terrains-impact-on-surface-wind-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/2026\/improved-representation-of-terrains-impact-on-surface-wind-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Improved representation of terrain\u2019s impact on surface wind speed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Improved representation of terrain\u2019s impact on surface wind speed\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accurate calculation of near surface (0 &#8211; 100m above ground level) meteorological variables, such as wind speed, are still difficult for computational atmospheric physics models, including numerical weather prediction (NWP) models which provide the world\u2019s weather forecasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A recent paper in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fagupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.1029%2F2025EA004980&amp;data=05%7C02%7CAhmedAbdulla3%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C266cd8beaee74a325ae808df15888fe0%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C639253348437488953%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=WHf5qmiAVOBUyqXXJ3tDhH%2FU68jee8YddNabRxDU5C8%3D&amp;reserved=0\"><em>Earth and Space Science<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;<\/em>details a new method, developed by Siddhant Srivastava (MASc, 2026) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/people\/kristen-schell\/\">Professor Schell<\/a>,&nbsp;to better calculate wind speed, through the improved representation of aerodynamic roughness length within NWP models. This method is shown to more accurately calculate near surface wind speed, which has implications for advancing wind power forecasting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n    <div class=\"grid gap-6 mx-auto my-6 cu-column md:gap-10 md:grid-cols-2 md:my-10 first:mt-0\">\n        \n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"377\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/2026\/09\/Improved_wind_image-2.png\" alt=\"Improved_wind_image\" class=\"wp-image-9005\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/2026\/09\/Improved_wind_image-2.png 377w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/2026\/09\/Improved_wind_image-2-320x369.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full w-screen ml-offset-center cu-max-w-child-7xl px-4 md:px-6 lg:px-12\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/2026\/09\/Improved_wind_gif.gif\" alt=\"Improved_wind_gif\" class=\"wp-image-9004\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accurate calculation of near surface (0 &#8211; 100m above ground level) meteorological variables, such as wind speed, are still difficult for computational atmospheric physics models, including numerical weather prediction (NWP) models which provide the world\u2019s weather forecasts. A recent paper in&nbsp;Earth and Space Science&nbsp;details a new method, developed by Siddhant Srivastava (MASc, 2026) and&nbsp;Professor Schell,&nbsp;to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":9008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9007,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions\/9007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}