Abstract:
An observation scheme for quantifying tower-shadow effects on offshore wind measurement masts was proposed, and a one-year wind dataset was acquired from a mast deployment in Chinese sea area. The influence pattern of the mast tower shadow on critical parameters was analyzed, and a tower-shadow influence factor (
TSIF) was introduced to characterize the severity of shadowing within each wind-direction sector. A mast tower shadow effect correction algorithm was then developed combining a temporal convolutional network (TCN) for extracting wind-speed time-series patterns with a multi-head self-attention mechanism (MHSA) for capturing key shadow-region features. Validation at the installed mast shows that the
TSIF serves as an essential auxiliary feature that significantly improves correction accuracy. The mounting azimuth of anemometers strongly affects both wind-resource measurement precision and the efficacy of tower-shadow correction. The proposed algorithm is applicable to most masts used in engineering and requires only two anemometer data series at one measurement height to correct tower-shadow-induced errors at any single-anemometer height, thereby substantially enhancing the wind-resource assessment accuracy.