Dr. Jim Salmon is the President and Chief Scientist at Zephyr North Ltd. He is a graduate of Trent, York and Southampton Universities in physics, mathematics, meteorology and oceanography. He has been making field measurements of wind and many other meteorological and environmental parameters for more than 25 years. He was key in the development of the internationally recognized computer software package MS-Micro for numerical modelling of wind flow in complex terrain. This software has been incorporated in a variety of present-day software packages such as ReSoft WindFarm and Environment and Natural Resources Canada’s WindScope. Jim has received the Andrew Thomson Prize in Applied Meteorology from the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society and the R.J. Templin Award “for outstanding contributions to the development of Canadian Wind Energy Technology” from the Canadian Wind Energy Association. He has also received CanWEA’s Group Leadership Award “for exceptional achievement by a group or organization”. He is a Past-President of the Canadian Wind Energy Association and past board member of the Toronto Renewable Energy Co-op and the Positive Power Co-op of Hamilton. Jim was a member of the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Committee for Site Assessment for Wind Energy Conversion Systems – Meteorological Aspects (F428-J1993) and is a former chairperson of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) Professional Accreditation Committee. He is also a former chairperson of the Toronto Centre of CMOS. Jim participated in the International Energy Agency’s most recent (31st) Meeting of Experts on State of the Art on Wind Resource Estimation as Canada’s representative. He is a Consulting Meteorologist accredited by the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society.

Zephyr North Ltd. is Canada’s oldest and most experienced wind resource assesment consultancy, with over 25 years experience in the industry. We are an independent company providing a full start-to-finish wind resource assesment service for the wind energy industry. Among our capabilities are: Wind Acquisition, analysis and evaluation of historical wind resource data Design, installation and maintenance of on-site wind monitoring systems, including data collection and quality assurance Analysis of on-site data to determine the local wind resource characteristics Correlation of historical and on-site wind data to estimate future wind resource Sophisticated, state-of-the-art numerical modelling of regional and site-specific wind resources accounting for anemometer sheltering, topography and vegetation/land-use Wind farm design and optimization accounting for complex wind flow, noise, setback, turbine sheltering, and other constraints Mesoscale wind mapping using Environment Canada’s EnSim-WE modelling system