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NREL National Wind Technology Center (NWTC): M2 Tower; Boulder, Colorado (Data)
Abstract
The National Wind Technology Center (NWTC), located at the foot of the Rocky Mountains near Boulder, Colorado, is a world-class research facility managed by NREL for the U.S. Department of Energy. NWTC researchers work with members of the wind energy industry to advance wind power technologies that lower the cost of wind energy through research and development of state-of-the-art wind turbine designs. NREL's Measurement and Instrument Data Center provides data from NWTC's M2 tower which are derived from instruments mounted on or near an 82 meter (270 foot) meteorological tower located at the western edge of the NWTC site and about 11 km (7 miles) west of Broomfield, and approximately 8 km (5 miles) south of Boulder, Colorado. The data represent the mean value of readings taken every two seconds and averaged over one minute. The wind speed and direction are measured at six heights on the tower and air temperature is measured at three heights. The dew point temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, totalized liquid precipitation, and global solar radiation are also available.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Other Number(s):
- NREL/DA-5500-56489
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
- Subject:
- 14 SOLAR ENERGY; 17 WIND ENERGY
- Keywords:
- nrel; nwtc; m2; tower; midc; solar; irradiance; meterological; data; measurement; instrumentation; solar calendar; wind rose; display; real-time; weather; outdoor; global; temperature; humidity; wind; pressure; precipitation; thermopile; pyranometer; research
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1052222
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.7799/1052222
Citation Formats
Jager, D., and Andreas, A. NREL National Wind Technology Center (NWTC): M2 Tower; Boulder, Colorado (Data). United States: N. p., 1996.
Web. doi:10.7799/1052222.
Jager, D., & Andreas, A. NREL National Wind Technology Center (NWTC): M2 Tower; Boulder, Colorado (Data). United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.7799/1052222
Jager, D., and Andreas, A. 1996.
"NREL National Wind Technology Center (NWTC): M2 Tower; Boulder, Colorado (Data)". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.7799/1052222. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1052222. Pub date:Tue Sep 24 00:00:00 EDT 1996
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title = {NREL National Wind Technology Center (NWTC): M2 Tower; Boulder, Colorado (Data)},
author = {Jager, D. and Andreas, A.},
abstractNote = {The National Wind Technology Center (NWTC), located at the foot of the Rocky Mountains near Boulder, Colorado, is a world-class research facility managed by NREL for the U.S. Department of Energy. NWTC researchers work with members of the wind energy industry to advance wind power technologies that lower the cost of wind energy through research and development of state-of-the-art wind turbine designs. NREL's Measurement and Instrument Data Center provides data from NWTC's M2 tower which are derived from instruments mounted on or near an 82 meter (270 foot) meteorological tower located at the western edge of the NWTC site and about 11 km (7 miles) west of Broomfield, and approximately 8 km (5 miles) south of Boulder, Colorado. The data represent the mean value of readings taken every two seconds and averaged over one minute. The wind speed and direction are measured at six heights on the tower and air temperature is measured at three heights. The dew point temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, totalized liquid precipitation, and global solar radiation are also available.},
doi = {10.7799/1052222},
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place = {United States},
year = {1996},
month = {9}
}