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Rebecca Barthelmie | Faculty

Rebecca Barthelmie Professor, Department of Geography

Office: MSB II 302
TEL: 856-5135
Email: rbarthel@indiana.edu

Curriculum Vitae
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Education

Ph.D., 1991, East Anglia

Research

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

Current Projects

  • Array effects in large wind farms
  • Wake measurements by lidar
  • Upwind Integrated Project: Flow and wakes in complex terrain and offshore
  • Climate change impacts on regional wind climates
  • Particle nucleation events in the Ohio River Valley

Representative Publications

  • Barthelmie, R.J., Pryor, S.C., Frandsen, S.T., Hansen, K.S., Schepers, J.G., Rados, K., Schlez, W., Neubert, A., Jensen, L.E. and Neckelmann, S. 2010: Quantifying the impact of wind turbine wakes on power output at offshore wind farms. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 27(8),1302-1317. doi: 10.1175/2010JTECHA1398.1
  • Barthelmie, R.J. and Jensen, L.E. 2010: Evaluation of power losses due to wind turbine wakes at the Nysted offshore wind farm, Wind Energy, 13, 573–586, DOI: 10.1002/we.408.
  • Barthelmie, R.J., A.M. Sempreviva and S.C. Pryor 2010: The influence of humidity on offshore wind speed profiles. Annales Geophysicae, 28, 1043-1052.
  • Brown, G.S., Barthelmie, R.J. and H.-G. Kim 2009: The suitability of European designed wind turbines for the East Asian market. Journal of the Environmental Sciences, 18(8), 825-831.
  • Frandsen, S.T., Jørgensen, H.E., Barthelmie, R.J., Rathmann, O., Badger, J., Hansen, K., Ott, S., Rethore, P.-E., Larsen, S.E., Jensen, L.E. 2009: The making of a second-generation wind farm efficiency model-complex, Wind Energy, 12(5), 445-458. DOI: 10.1002/we.351.

Service

  • Editor: Wind Energy (International Journal published by Wiley)
  • Member of scientific committee for European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition 2006-2011
  • Member of the American Meteorological Society Committee on Boundary-Layers and Turbulence