Wind Energy Science
Wind Energy Science
WES
Open access Public peer review Article level metrics Moderate APCs
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Open access Public peer review Article level metrics Moderate APCs Financial support
Editor-in-chief: Carlo L. Bottasso
Chief editors: Sandrine Aubrun, Nicolaos A. Cutululis, Paul Fleming, Julia Gottschall, Athanasios Kolios, Jakob Mann & Paul Veers
eISSN: WES 2366-7451, WESD 2366-7621

Wind Energy Science is an international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and public discussion of studies that take an interdisciplinary perspective of fundamental or pioneering research in wind energy.

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15 Jun 2026 The NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research partners with Copernicus Publications to support open-access publishing

Copernicus Publications is delighted to announce a new institutional agreement with NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Please read more.

15 Jun 2026 The NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research partners with Copernicus Publications to support open-access publishing

Copernicus Publications is delighted to announce a new institutional agreement with NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Please read more.

07 May 2026 Temporary unavailability of article and preprint PDFs due to technical issues

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07 May 2026 Temporary unavailability of article and preprint PDFs due to technical issues

Since Tuesday, 5 May, 06:30 CET, we have been experiencing technical issues caused by high demand on our systems, which have significantly affected our journal libraries. To maintain platform stability and ensure continued access to critical services, all preprint and journal article PDFs were temporarily restricted, while HTML full-text content and XML files remained available. Since Thursday, 7 May, 08:30 CET, we have made the preprint PDFs available again; however, journal article PDFs remain restricted until the technical issues have been resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we work to restore full PDF access as quickly as possible. Thank you for your understanding.

13 Feb 2026 University of Western Ontario partners with Copernicus Publications to support open-access publishing

Copernicus Publications has signed a new agreement with Western Libraries at the University of Western Ontario, providing a 50% APC reduction for eligible corresponding authors submitting from 1 January 2026. Please read more.

13 Feb 2026 University of Western Ontario partners with Copernicus Publications to support open-access publishing

Copernicus Publications has signed a new agreement with Western Libraries at the University of Western Ontario, providing a 50% APC reduction for eligible corresponding authors submitting from 1 January 2026. Please read more.

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Recent papers

18 Jun 2026
Generating high-fidelity wind fields from the wind speed correlation tensor
Matteo Faccioni, Daniel Kiehn, and Patrick Vrancken
Wind Energ. Sci., 11, 2093–2101, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-11-2093-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-11-2093-2026, 2026
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18 Jun 2026
Computationally efficient aerodynamic modeling of curved wind turbine blades and non-planar rotors using coupled near wake and vortex cylinder models
Ang Li, Mac Gaunaa, and Georg Raimund Pirrung
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2026-85,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2026-85, 2026
Preprint under review for WES (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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18 Jun 2026
Condition monitoring of wind turbine drivetrains: state-of-the-art technologies, recent trends, and future outlook
Kayacan Kestel, Xavier Chesterman, Donatella Zappalá, Simon Watson, Mingxin Li, Edward Hart, James Carroll, Yolanda Vidal, Amir R. Nejad, Shawn Sheng, Yi Guo, Matthias Stammler, Florian Wirsing, Ahmed Saleh, Nico Gregarek, Thao Baszenski, Thomas Decker, Martin Knops, Georg Jacobs, Benjamin Lehmann, Florian König, Ines Pereira, Pieter-Jan Daems, Cédric Peeters, and Jan Helsen
Wind Energ. Sci., 11, 2103–2155, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-11-2103-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-11-2103-2026, 2026
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18 Jun 2026
Wind resource assessment in flow-distorting terrain: Techno-economic comparison of fixed-wing UAVs & profiling LiDAR
Phuong Anh Nguyen, Ewoud Vos, and Danial Hassani
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2026-92,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2026-92, 2026
Preprint under review for WES (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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17 Jun 2026
Impact of wind farms on the occurrence and characteristics of low-level jets
Coleman Moss, Rupert Storey, Tanmoy Chatterjee, and Giacomo Valerio Iungo
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2026-98,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2026-98, 2026
Preprint under review for WES (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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