Mesoescale Models Analysis to Characterize of the Wind Power over Paraíba State

Abstract The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of mesoescale numerical models to simulate wind conditions in the state of Paraiba-BRA. For this a case study was conducted for the month of September 2010, which compared data of wind speed collected from sensors installed on towers anemometric standard for wind studies with simulated data by BRAMS and WRF models. The towers are located in the regions of Agreste, Borborema and Sertão from the Paraíba-BRA. The results reveal that for the locality analyzed in Agreste the WRF accompanying variations in average wind speed more concisely, while for the locations situated in the Borborema and Sertão cycles played by BRAMS showed up closer to the observed cycles. According to the greatest statistical errors were found for the location in Borborema and lower for the wild both to the results of the WRF. In general, the observed and simulated by the models show a strong correlation with statistical significance of 99% according to the statistical test.