U.S. Department of EnergyOffice of Scientific and Technical Information
Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) Toolkit
Abstract
Wind resource data for North America was produced using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF). The WRF model was initialized with the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts Interim Reanalysis (ERA-Interm) data set with an initial grid spacing of 54 km. Three internal nested domains were used to refine the spatial resolution to 18, 6, and finally 2 km. The WRF model was run for years 2007 to 2014. While outputs were extracted from WRF at 5 minute time-steps, due to storage limitations instantaneous hourly time-step are provided for all variables while full 5 min resolution data is provided for wind speed and wind direction only. The following variables were extracted from the WRF model data: - Wind Speed at 10, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 200 m - Wind Direction at 10, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 200 m - Temperature at 2, 10, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 200 m - Pressure at 0, 100, 200 m - Surface Precipitation Rate - Surface Relative Humidity - Inverse Monin Obukhov Length
- Authors:
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- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Publication Date:
- Other Number(s):
- 2
- Research Org.:
- DOE Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI); National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Wind Energy Technologies Office (EE-4WE)
- Collaborations:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Subject:
- API; Array; ERA Interm; ERA-Interm; Eastern Wind Integration Data Set; WRF; Weather Research and Forecasting Model; Western Wind Integration Data Set; code; data; energy; meterology; model; numerical weather model; power; python; toolkit; weather; wind; wind data
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1822195
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.25984/1822195
Citation Formats
Maclaurin, Galen, Draxl, Caroline, Hodge, Bri-Mathias, and Rossol, Michael. Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) Toolkit. United States: N. p., 2014.
Web. doi:10.25984/1822195.
Maclaurin, Galen, Draxl, Caroline, Hodge, Bri-Mathias, & Rossol, Michael. Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) Toolkit. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.25984/1822195
Maclaurin, Galen, Draxl, Caroline, Hodge, Bri-Mathias, and Rossol, Michael. 2014.
"Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) Toolkit". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.25984/1822195. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1822195. Pub date:Fri Sep 26 04:00:00 UTC 2014
@article{osti_1822195,
title = {Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) Toolkit},
author = {Maclaurin, Galen and Draxl, Caroline and Hodge, Bri-Mathias and Rossol, Michael},
abstractNote = {Wind resource data for North America was produced using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF). The WRF model was initialized with the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts Interim Reanalysis (ERA-Interm) data set with an initial grid spacing of 54 km. Three internal nested domains were used to refine the spatial resolution to 18, 6, and finally 2 km. The WRF model was run for years 2007 to 2014. While outputs were extracted from WRF at 5 minute time-steps, due to storage limitations instantaneous hourly time-step are provided for all variables while full 5 min resolution data is provided for wind speed and wind direction only. The following variables were extracted from the WRF model data: - Wind Speed at 10, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 200 m - Wind Direction at 10, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 200 m - Temperature at 2, 10, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 200 m - Pressure at 0, 100, 200 m - Surface Precipitation Rate - Surface Relative Humidity - Inverse Monin Obukhov Length},
doi = {10.25984/1822195},
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place = {United States},
year = {Fri Sep 26 04:00:00 UTC 2014},
month = {Fri Sep 26 04:00:00 UTC 2014}
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