Chicago Course Programme

Venue: Best Western Grand Park Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Thursday, 25 March

10:00 Welcome
10:10 Registration & coffee, Test of PC's and installation of software
11:00 Introduction & theory
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Terrain description and the map editor
14:30 Break
14:45 Terrain roughness and roughness change
16:00 Shelter from buildings and natural obstacles
17:00 Close
18:30 Course dinner

Friday, 26 March

09:00 Welcome to day 2
09:15 Hills and flow modelling
10:00 Complex terrain and other issues
11:00 Wind measurements and analyses of wind data
12:00 Lunch
13:00 WAsP analysis: Wind atlas generation
13:45 WAsP application: Wind resource prediction
14:30 Break
14:45 Wind power calculations
15:45 User's Guide and on-line Help system
16:30 Close

Saturday, 27 March

09:00 Welcome to day 3
09:20 Case study – the participants carry out a complete WAsP analysis and application
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Case study, continued
14:00 Presentation and discussion of case study
14:45 Break
15:00 Working with WAsP
15:30 Q & A session
16:00 Evaluation of course
16:15 Close

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