"Benefits of spatiotemporal modeling for short-term wind power forecasting at both individual and aggregated levels" and "Effects of uncertainties in hydrological modelling: A case study of a mountainous catchment in Southern Norway"

Ingelin Steinsland (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Friday 9th March, 2018 15:00-16:00 Maths 311B

Abstract

Paper: Benefits of spatiotemporal modeling for short-term wind power forecasting at both individual and aggregated levels, Environmetrics 2018, DOI 10.1002/env.2493

Amanda Lenzi (DTU), Ingelin Steinsland (NTNU) & Pierre Pinson (DTU)

Abstract: The share of wind energy in total installed power capacity has grown rapidly in recent years. Producing accurate and reliable forecasts of wind power production, together with a quantification of the uncertainty, is essential to optimally integrate wind energy into power systems. We build spatiotemporal models for wind power generation and obtain full probabilistic forecasts from15 min to 5 h ahead. Detailed analyses of forecast performances on individual wind farms and aggregated wind power are provided. The predictions from our models are evaluated on a data set from wind farms in western Denmark using a sliding window approach, for which estimation is performed using only the last available measurements. The case study shows that it is important to have a spatiotemporal model instead of a temporal one to achieve calibrated aggregated forecasts. Furthermore, spatiotemporal models have the advantage of being able to produce spatially out-of-sample forecasts. We use a Bayesian hierarchical framework to obtain fast and accurate forecasts of wind power generation not only at wind farms where recent data are available but also at a larger portfolio including wind farms without recent observations of power production. The results and the methodologies are relevant for wind power forecasts across the globe and for spatiotemporal modeling in general.

Paper: Effects of uncertainties in hydrological modelling. A case study of a mountainous catchment in Southern Norway

Kolbjørn Engeland (NVE), Ingelin Steinsland (NTNU), Stian Solvang Johansen (Statkraft), Asgeir Petersen-Øverleir (Statkraft), Sjur Kolberg (SINTEF)

Abstract: In this study, we explore the effect of uncertainty and poor observation quality on hydrological model calibration and predictions. The Osali catchment in Western Norway was selected as case study and an elevation distributed HBV-model was used. We systematically evaluated the effect of accounting for uncertainty in parameters, precipitation input, temperature input and streamflow observations. For precipitation and temperature we accounted for the interpolation uncertainty, and for streamflow we accounted for rating curve uncertainty. Further, the effects of poorer quality of precipitation input and streamflow observations were explored. Less information about precipitation was obtained by excluding the nearest precipitation station from the analysis, while reduced information about the streamflow was obtained by omitting the highest and lowest streamflow observations when estimating the rating curve. The results showed that including uncertainty in the precipitation and temperature inputs has a negligible effect on the posterior distribution of parameters and for the Nash–Sutcliffe (NS) efficiency for the predicted flows, while the reliability and the continuous rank probability score (CRPS) improves. Less information in precipitation input resulted in a shift in the water balance parameter Pcorr, a model producing smoother streamflow predictions, giving poorer NS and CRPS, but higher reliability. The effect of calibrating the hydrological model using streamflow observations based on different rating curves is mainly seen as variability in the water balance parameter Pcorr. When evaluating predictions, the best evaluation scores were not achieved for the rating curve used for calibration, but for rating curves giving smoother streamflow observations. Less information in streamflow influenced the water balance parameter Pcorr, and increased the spread in evaluation scores by giving both better and worse scores.

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