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Rebecca Barthelmie | Faculty

Rebecca Barthelmie Professor, Department of Geography

Office: SB 204
TEL: 856-5135
Email: rbarthel@indiana.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D., 1991, East Anglia

Research

  • Power losses by wind turbine wakes
  • Wind energy meteorology and climatology
  • Atmospheric stability characteristics
  • Offshore and coastal meteorology
  • Transport and transformation of atmospheric pollutants
  • Chemistry of atmospheric aerosols

Current Projects

  • Upwind Integrated Project: Flow and wakes in complex terrain and offshore
  • Climate and Energy Systems; Risks, potential, adaptation
  • Development and evaluation of downscaling tools for near-surface wind climates
  • Particle nucleation events in the Ohio River Valley
  • Prediction of waves, wakes and offshore wind (POWWOW)

Representative Publications

  • Barthelmie, R.J., Murray, F. and Pryor, S.C. 2008: The economic benefit of short-term forecasting for wind energy in the UK electricity market, Energy Policy, 36(5), 1687-1696. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2008.01.027  
  • Barthelmie, R.J., Badger, J., Pryor, S.C., Hasager, C., Christiansen, M.B. and Jørgensen, B.H. 2007:  Wind speed gradients in the coastal offshore environment: Issues pertaining to design and development of large offshore wind farms, Wind Engineering, 31(6), 369-382.
  • Barthelmie, R.J., Frandsen, S.T., Nielsen, N.M., Pryor, S.C., Rethore, P.E. and H.E. Jørgensen, 2007: Modelling and measurements of power losses and turbulence intensity in wind turbine wakes at Middelgrunden offshore wind farm, Wind Energy doi: 10.1002/we.238. 10, 217-228.
  • Barthelmie, R.J. 2007: Wind energy: Status and trends. Geography Compass, 1 (3), 275–301. doi:10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00030.x (Featured in DG Environment News Alert 2007: Science for Environment Policy Newsletter 29 July 2007. Wind energy. Status and trends. http://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsalert/pdf/75na2.pdf)
  • Barthelmie, R. J. and Pryor, S.C. 2006: Challenges in predicting power output from offshore wind farms. Journal of Energy Engineering (Special issue on Sustainable Energy System), 132(3), 91-103.
  • Barthelmie, R., Folkerts, L., Larsen, G., Pryor, S.C., Frandsen, S.T. and Schepers, G. 2006: Comparison of wake model simulations with offshore wind turbine wake profiles measured by sodar, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 23(7), 888-901.
  • Pryor, S.C., Schoof, J. and Barthelmie, R.J. 2006: "Winds of change? Projections of near-surface winds under climate change scenarios". Geophysics Research Letters, 33(11), L11702.
  • Frandsen, S.T., Barthelmie, R.J., Pryor, S.C., Rathmann, O., Larsen, S. Højstrup, J. and Thøgersen, M. 2006: Analytical modelling of wind speed deficit in large offshore wind farms. Wind Energy , 9, 39-53.

Service

  • Wind resource group of the European Union Technology Platform on Wind Energy
  • Editor: Wind Energy (International Journal published by Wiley)
  • Member of scientific committee for European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition, Brussels, 2008
  • Wind Energy Group of the World Renewable Energy Conference X