Version history and change log
Version v1.3
General issues
- Better performance of window resize and graphical interface
- New wind turbine models have been added
- New modules with specific licencing conditions have been included
- Definition of new object: TARGET POINTS MAP
Data loading, graphing and analysis
- Manual flagging has been added on scatter plot and fitting module
- Faster representation of flags when zooming in and out
- Some errors when flagging and filtering have been fixed
- Availability if now calculated taking into account the time length of a time filter
- Calculate year divisions with 1,2,3,4,6,12 (only these accepted)
- All year divisions now in the program are conventional
- Correct flag performance when slider in time series/annual profile is greater than 4 days
- Filter table: adjust columnsize to show long flag names. Font size
- A new graphic tab called Spectrum has been added
- Give alert messages when .xls or .nc files cannot be loaded or there is not enough memory
- Launch error if .sws loading fails
- Read .xls file with some specific header and other possible similar files
- Read Nomad 1 files and nomad headers
- Cancelling .xls, .xlsx and .nc files when opening
- Cancelling .sws files when opening
- Zoom in and out. Alternative without mouse using keystrokes
- Export time series (changes dat and time)
- Include CFSR reanalysis at Download data module
- When multiple flags for one data, ask before removing which one should be removed
- Include Vref calculation due to hurricanes
- Correct application of time filters on availability calculation on Data Coverage tab and other modules
- Calculation of estimated boundary layer height in atmospheric stability module
- Possibility of reading .nc4 files
- On energy production module, power curve and monthly results are added. Losses can be added. Warnings
- New module of temperature losses has been developed
- Slider now works properly when two datasets with different time steps are compared
- The remove all flags options now works properly
Wind resource
- Interpreting roughness length from different land cover codes such as GLOBCOVER through a codification file
- Correction of turbulence intensity calculation using MULTITAB on the energy yield report
- Roughness raster layer can be created from the program
- Apply multimast in .rsf
Energy yield and micrositing
- Bathymetry maps can now be loaded into the program
- It is possible to load .shp files in vector layer creation
- Update of wind turbines names on reports
- Implementation of FUROWAKE, a new module for wakes calculation
- FUROWAKE calculates coupling the near wake with the far wake without iterations
- FUROWAKE allows calculating wind speed at wake effects for several heights
- Implementation of noise analysis module
- Implementation of financial analysis module
- Use of target points to calculate the noise at those points
Version v1.2
General issues
- Better performance of window resize and graphical interface
- It is now possible to move objects in the tree within the same wind data and properties are arranged accordingly
- Deletion of objects has been improved
- New wind turbine models have been added
- Improved Copy/Paste functions on tables
Data loading, graphing and analysis
- Manual flagging has been added on time series tab
- Manual flagging has been added on diurnal profile, annual profile, histogram, versus plot and cummulative distribution
- Manual flagging can be applied to multiple channels at the same time
- New flags can be created while doing manual flagging
- Manual flagging allows removing flagged data
- Faster representation of flags when zooming in and out
- On the representation tabs, a "Show flag marks" checkbox has been added to visualize or not flagged instants
- All flag objects are correctly removed when data are removed or flag elements are removed
- User can assign a color to any flag
- Decimals when sensor heights are read are now implemented correctly
- Some errors on merge graphs have been fixed
- Some corrections habe been made on the use of "Conventional months"
- Modifications on the legend size
- Wind roses are now represented with decimals
- Cursor representation changed
- A new module for downloading Reanalysis data has been included (models include MERRA, MERRA-2 and ERA-I). Interpolation for any coordinate is possible
- A new button to clear the last rule in the flags module has been added
- Extrapolated wind speed is now differentiated according to the type of fitting performed
- Derive variable correction for wind direction calculation
- Derived variables can be created using flags
- Add filters table at data generation modules
- Possibility of applying slope and offset on different time steps and time ranges
- REWS can be now calculated using measurements and linear interpolation on REWS module
- MCP improvements: include R2 for each sector, shows number of samples, include ranking of references, clarify method used to select best mast and select common period for ranking procedure
- In availability dialogue the selection of typical year based on better months has been included as well as the possibility of exporting time series (with initial date defined by user)
- Possibility of extrapolating temperature with height using gradients by hour, month and direction and their combinations
- Pressure can be now estimated based on terrain elevation in order to calculate air density
- An estimation of flow inclination losses has been added on inflow angle
- Possibility of rescaling data when performing extreme winds analysis to calculate Vref on 10 minute basis when being in another time step
Wind resource
- Calculation of discrete wind resource objects (.rsf) based on wind turbine positions
- Possibility of calculating wind resource maps for clima objects representing mesoscale or reanalysis information
- Calculation of wind resource using several clima objects
- Clima object faster representation when it contains many sectors
- Interpreting roughness length from different land cover codes such as CORINE or NLCD through a codification file
- Possibility of exporting all clima object files at once
- Contribution of slopes to acceleration factors is now limited to 1 instead of 0.5
Energy yield and micrositing
- Wake effects module provides wind speed and power of each individual wind turbine
- Near wake model has been included to simulate wind field of the near wake. Matching with far wake models has been implemented
- Graphical representation and editing of WSM strategies
- Unlimitted number of iterations to run wake models calculations
- Autoplace option to create N turbines randomly distributed has been added
- In Jensen model, the relationship between the wake decay constant and turbulence intensity applies only for values of turbulence greater than 0.07 (instead of 0.05)
- In Bastankhak & Porté-Agel model, the relationship between the growth rate constant and turbulence intensity applies only for values of turbulence greater than 0.07 (instead of 0.05)
- Sensitivity factor in uncertainty calculations is now done re-scaling the CLIMA object instead of using Weibulls
Version v1.1
General issues
- Better performance of window resize and graphical interface
- Deletion of objects have been improved
- New options for preferences have been included
- New wind turbine models have been added
- Change titles format and names
- Update of properties for some tree objects
Data loading, graphing and analysis
- Improvements on representations when dealing with wind directions in all Graphic tabs
- Better arrangement of graphs on the Graphic tab when there are multiple divisions
- General bug fixes and improvements on all Graphic tabs
- Possibility of canceling file opening
- Increased capabilities for data loading including new data loggers
- Possibility of reading raw data files from new SODAR and LIDAR devices
- Possibility of reading raw data files from new mesoscale and reanalysis models identifying some properties
- Some new .xls and .xlsx formats are now loaded
- Warnings are issued when the programa cannot read some files or when there is not enough memory to handle them
- It is now possible to open files with different time steps in the same project and manage them simultaneously
- When a mast with different time step is deleted, the internal data matrix is readapted with the remaining time step
- Data coverages calculated accordingly when time steps are different
- Availability channels can be generated when time steps are different taking into account this difference
- Availability channels act as linked nodes and updates when flagging or filtering the channel they are associated with
- Availability channels have a channel statistic of "Coverage"
- Improvements of data appending for several types of files
- Update of the plotting order when several variables are selected
- Added setting for boxplot percentiles calculation
- Update of the flags window, including "Time flags"
- Some preferences when loading data have been included
- Corrections to "Derive new variable" module
- Included "Rotor equivalent wind speed" module
- When using "Best fit" for wind speed extrapolations, if highest level is not available, validation is performed on next level
- Possibility of performing MCP analysis using masts with different time step
- MCP is now possible with averages or with spot values
- Possibility of performing MCP analysis using more than one reference mast creating a ranking through correlation coefficient
- Scatter plot and fittings can be performed on several time steps, using either averages or concurrent spot measurements
- Wind shear module now provides values of alpha or roughness length depending on sector, hour of day and month and their combinations
- Vref can be calculated at any return period, and not only to 50 years
- Uncertainty values for Vref calculation is provided together with Vref values
- Some corrections when exporting wind data to .txt, .xls or .xlsx have been implemented
Wind resource
- Make corrections of wind flow model to include another parameterization of wind profile for forests taking into account forest density
- Rearrange the whole clima object to have a more complete one which loads channels data, files and user defined values
- Remove limitation of clima object in the number of sectors (64) and allow calculations up to 360 sectors
- Correction of Error "Not Enough memory in Wind Resource Calculation" when available RAM memory is not enough to perform calculations
- Modifications "Relocate time series" with the new clima object, including air density
- Compute in parallel program, thread: Calculate Wind Resource
- Compute in parallel program, thread: Calculate Extreme Wind
- Compute in parallel program, thread: Calculate Wind Validation Map
- Compute in parallel program, thread: Calculate Weibull parameters
- Compute in parallel program, thread: Calculate Processing of wind resource for more sectors
Energy yield and micrositing
- Implementation of new wake model: Bastankhah & Porté-Agel
- Improvements on Wake Effects module: corrections of implementation of wake models, possibility of changing wake model options, view wake effects for any height
- Possibility of calculating Energy Yield with a clima object with a number of sectors different than those of the wind resource grid object
- Correction of Ideal Yield to be the same for all wind turbines at the same hub height
- Added new options for energy yield calculations such as the new wake distance and other parameters
- Proposed correction for Filter F on Simplified Eddy Viscosity and Eddy Viscosity methods
- Possibility of calculating Effective wind speed
- Possibility of calculate iteratively incident wind speed (up to 5 iterations)
- Compute in parallel program, thread: Calculate Energy Yield
- Frequencies adaptation of unavailability to calculate effective turbulence intensity
- Frequencies adaptation of unavailability to hours distribution
- Move interactively the wind turbines and possibility of modifying the entire wind farm
- Some corrections on Site compliance report
- Possibility of analyzing wind speed distributions and effective turbulence intensity taking into account operation and idling hours
- Export polygon and wind farm coordinates to files
- Export visible layers to .xyz and/or .kml files
- Unify "Create vector layer" dialogue, where it is possible to set priorities and include different vector layers
- Modifications on Site distortion roses
Version v1.0
- Initial version