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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.

JIF
JIF4.9
JIF 5-year
JIF 5-year4.8
CiteScore
CiteScore7.5
Google h5-index
Google h5-index37
Get engaged in the public peer review!

Follow the discussions on newly posted manuscripts and take part by commenting on WES preprints! Wind Energy Science has an innovative two-stage publication process involving the scientific discussion forum Wind Energy Science Discussions (WESD), which has been designed to maximize the effectiveness and transparency of scientific quality assurance and foster scientific discourse.

News

28 May 2025 New co-review option in WES

WES now offers a co-review option for referees. Please read more.

28 May 2025 New co-review option in WES

WES now offers a co-review option for referees. Please read more.

06 Mar 2025 Get involved, become a referee, and help shape WES' community publication output

We are pleased to announce that a new referee application form is now available. This means that if you are interested in contributing to the peer-review process and supporting high-quality scientific publishing in your community then you can apply today to become a referee. Your expertise can make a difference. Visit the online form here to learn more and join our reviewer community.

06 Mar 2025 Get involved, become a referee, and help shape WES' community publication output

We are pleased to announce that a new referee application form is now available. This means that if you are interested in contributing to the peer-review process and supporting high-quality scientific publishing in your community then you can apply today to become a referee. Your expertise can make a difference. Visit the online form here to learn more and join our reviewer community.

05 Feb 2025 Copernicus Publications and all journals left Twitter

The Copernicus Twitter account as well as all Twitter accounts of journals published by us have been deactivated. There will be no automatic feeds of newly posted preprints or published journal articles anymore, we do not actively tweet, and the status informs that the accounts are no longer maintained. Twitter is no longer linked from the journal websites or in the share section of the preprint or journal article HTML pages.

05 Feb 2025 Copernicus Publications and all journals left Twitter

The Copernicus Twitter account as well as all Twitter accounts of journals published by us have been deactivated. There will be no automatic feeds of newly posted preprints or published journal articles anymore, we do not actively tweet, and the status informs that the accounts are no longer maintained. Twitter is no longer linked from the journal websites or in the share section of the preprint or journal article HTML pages.

Recent papers

11 Jul 2025
Mountain wave and downslope winds impact on wind power production
Kine Solbakken, Eirik Mikal Samuelsen, and Yngve Birkelund
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-95,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-95, 2025
Preprint under review for WES (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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11 Jul 2025
The impact of low-level jets on the power generated by offshore wind turbines
Johannes Paulsen, Jörge Schneemann, Gerald Steinfeld, Frauke Theuer, and Martin Kühn
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-118,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-118, 2025
Preprint under review for WES (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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10 Jul 2025
Simulated meteorological impacts of offshore wind turbines and sensitivity to the amount of added turbulence kinetic energy
Daphne Quint, Julie K. Lundquist, Nicola Bodini, and David Rosencrans
Wind Energ. Sci., 10, 1269–1301, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1269-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1269-2025, 2025
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10 Jul 2025
Spatiotemporal behavior of the far wake of a wind turbine model subjected to harmonic motions: phase averaging applied to stereo particle image velocimetry measurements
Antonin Hubert, Boris Conan, and Sandrine Aubrun
Wind Energ. Sci., 10, 1351–1368, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1351-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1351-2025, 2025
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10 Jul 2025
COFLEX: a novel set point optimiser and feedforward–feedback control scheme for large, flexible wind turbines
Guido Lazzerini, Jacob Deleuran Grunnet, Tobias Gybel Hovgaard, Fabio Caponetti, Vasu Datta Madireddi, Delphine De Tavernier, and Sebastiaan Paul Mulders
Wind Energ. Sci., 10, 1303–1327, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1303-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1303-2025, 2025
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Notice on the current situation in Ukraine

To show our support for Ukraine, all fees for papers from authors (first or corresponding authors) affiliated to Ukrainian institutions are automatically waived, regardless if these papers are co-authored by scientists affiliated to Russian and/or Belarusian institutions. The only exception will be if the corresponding author or first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) are from a Russian and/or Belarusian institution, in that case the APCs are not waived.

In accordance with current European restrictions, Copernicus Publications does not step into business relations with and issue APC-invoices (articles processing charges) to Russian and Belarusian institutions. The peer-review process and scientific exchange of our journals including preprint posting is not affected. However, these restrictions require that the first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) has an affiliation and invoice address outside Russia or Belarus.