Date

Identifier

Wind strength and direction | Wind speed in the atmosphere by model prediction in m/s at 50, 100, 200 m | Risoe National Laboratory, Technical University of Denmark, Wind Energy Department |

Other citation details

Large-scale mean Wind Forcing

Purpose

The objective of the Global Wind Atlas is to: -provide wind resource data accounting for high resolution effects -use microscale modelling to capture small scale wind speed variability (crucial for better estimates of total wind resource) -use a unified methodology -ensure transparency about the methodology used -verify the results in representative selected areas

Status

onGoing On going

Maintenance and update frequency

Unknown

Used by challenges

• Atlantic - CH01 - Windfarm Siting

Environmental matrix

• Air

Production mode

• Delayed

Visibility

• Use of open search engines, searching by name either the data provider or the characteristics

Policy visibility

• There is detailed information provided to understand data policy

Readyness

• Format not proprietary and content clearly specified (e.g. autodescriptive like ODV, NetCDF CF) or at least with appropriate document describing the content

Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)

• Wind strength and direction

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Energy resources

Processing level of characteristics

• High level analyzed

Data delivery mechanisms

• Online discovery + downloading + viewing services (Advanced services)

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (other)

• Wind speed in the atmosphere by model prediction in m/s at 50, 100, 200 m

Agreed Parameter Groups (P03)

• Meteorology

Service extent

• The datasets are referenced in a public national catalogue, in an international catalogue service

Validation

• Submitted

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Unrestricted

Use limitation

Open and Free. No charge

Spatial representation type

vector Vector

Distance

0.5  degree

Metadata language

Français

Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Environment description

Wind velocity data are fundamental for windfarm siting suitability mapping

Begin date

1979-01-01T00:00:00

End date

2013-12-31T00:00:00

Dimension name

Time

Resolution

1  

Transformation parameter availability

Yes

Checkpoint Availability

Yes

Distribution format

• XLS ()

OnLine resource

Map ( WWW:LINK )

OnLine resource

Large-scale mean Wind Forcing ( WWW:LINK )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

http://globalwindatlas.com/datasets.html#toc-Section-3.3

Attribute description

observation

Content type

Physical measurement

Description

"50, 100 and 200m"

File identifier

f8a175ac-70a0-4eb3-8aa4-31d5c5936756 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Series

Hierarchy level name

Atlantic - CH01 - Windfarm Siting

Date stamp

2017-01-06T10:52:21Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115-3 - Emodnet Checkpoint - Upstream Data

Metadata standard version

1.0