Environment and Climate

Oceanographic investigations relating to offshore wind farms

Impact of wind on currents, salinity, and temperature

Sediment transport during the building phase

Formation and prevention of cratering

Marine technology investigations using numerical models and the measurement of environmental parameters of currents, water levels, salinity, temperature, sediment transport and depositing
 

Sound, shadow casting (on land, in water)

On land

Sound propagation and emission at turbine heights greater than 100 m

Verification of predicted and measured shadow periods

Passive sun and shadow casting measures
 

Offshore

Sound emission, reduction and propagation during erection and operation of offshore wind farms

Penetration and propagation of shadow casting in water
 

Generation of environmental data (wind potentials, solar irradiation, meteorological parameters)

Measuring and forecasting wind speed potentials

Solar irradiation, energy and shadow casting

General meteorological parameters
 

Turbulence

Impact of turbulence on the power output of wind turbines

Turbulences as emissions/immissions as per §3 Sections 2 & 3 of the German Federal Immission Control Law (BImSchG)
 

Landscape aesthetics

Evaluation of the impact of wind energy projects on the landscape from an aesthetic point of view (Nohl)