Mapping of wind climate in urban environment

Abstract

There are high expectations also in the urban areas for generating electricity by small scale wind turbines. In the inhabited city area of Budapest we made an experimental research for metering and modeling the wind climate of one of the buildings of Óbuda University. We had a wind meter-pair, one of them was used as a reference metering and we mapped the wind place-by-place. After the 10 times two weeks long metering periods we calculated the correlation of the reference point and the actual spot meterings. For the validation of the metering we made a computer simulation, too. We arrived at the conclusion that metering and the simulation had a good correlation but in the urban area the wind course was really weak in the possible heights (approx. 10 meter above the buildings).